Each month, Visual AIDS launches a new online web gallery. Visual AIDS invites guest curator, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. This month, Matthew Lawrence curates Personal, Jesus, which features the artwork of Archive Members; Michael Borosky, Gregg Cassin, Jimmy DeSana, Frank Green, Max Greenberg, Rebecca Guberman, Leslie Kaliades, Mark Morrisroe, Berni Ortiz, Juan Andres Pulido, Nelson Edwin Rodriguez, Richard Sawdon-Smith, Tom Shooter, Albert J. Winn and David Wojnarowicz.
From the Curator's Statement:
As a very suburban child growing up in the late 80s and early 90s in one of the most heavily Catholic areas in the country, meeting someone with AIDS always left a heavy impression. I remember all of my first encounters with HIV positive men: the guest speaker in my mom's community college psychology class on the one night she couldn't get a sitter; a pricey but well-regarded local hairdresser, who happened to be the brother of an alcoholic family friend I no longer remember; and on television, when a man with a condom for an earring visited an early Real World house to teach the cast about safe sex practices. (read more here)
Matthew Lawrence is a writer and independent curator based in Providence, Rhode Island. He is one of the founding editors of Headmaster, a biannual art magazine for man-lovers. Recent exhibitions he has curated include Deviance Begins At Home, a queer group exhibit in his own apartment, and World Of Queercraft, an examination of gender identity by textile and craft artists. His writing has been published in $pread Magazine and more recently in the anthology Coming and Crying: Real Stories About Sex From The Other Side of the Bed. His blog is called Mixtapes For Hookers, and he also runs the dirty photo Tumblr Naked Pictures Of Your Dad.
Visit WEB GALLERY
[web gallery may contain adult content]
Matthew Lawrence is a writer and independent curator based in Providence, Rhode Island. He is one of the founding editors of Headmaster, a biannual art magazine for man-lovers. Recent exhibitions he has curated include Deviance Begins At Home, a queer group exhibit in his own apartment, and World Of Queercraft, an examination of gender identity by textile and craft artists. His writing has been published in $pread Magazine and more recently in the anthology Coming and Crying: Real Stories About Sex From The Other Side of the Bed. His blog is called Mixtapes For Hookers, and he also runs the dirty photo Tumblr Naked Pictures Of Your Dad.
Visit WEB GALLERY
[web gallery may contain adult content]
image: Albert Winn, After the Cocktail, 1999
No comments:
Post a Comment