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HIV Plus curates Visual AIDS Web Gallery

Salute curated by HIV Plus

Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. This month, the folks over at HIV Plus curated the current on-line exhibition which features the artwork of Archive Members; Eric Stephen Abrams, Barton Lidice Benes, Robert Blanchon, Rene Capone, Luis Carle, Gregg Cassin, Keith Haring, Jerry Hotten, Derek Jackson, John Lathram, Joyce McDonald, Frank Moore, Hunter Reynolds, Eric Rhein, Richard Sawdon Smith, Steed Taylor, George Towne, Christopher Trujillo, Albert Velasco .  The artwork is also features in the November/December issue of HIV Plus.

HIV Plus Statement:
In recognition of the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day and the corresponding Day With(out) Art, HIV Plus magazine wanted to honor the visionaries who’ve brought -- and those who continue to bring -- beauty to our world. We’ve collaborated with the organization Visual AIDS to curate this special anniversary exhibit, which we call Salute.  The 20 works we selected represent a wide range of artistic forms -- paintings, drawings, sculpture, posters, photography, collages, and mixed media. This variety is a mirror of the vast diversity of the pandemic and of the people affected by HIV -- men, women, and children; mothers, fathers, daughters, and sons; gays, straights, and bisexuals; the old and the young; the rich and the poor; and people of all colors and ethnicities....But all of the pieces are poignant lessons on what it truly means -- on a personal and individual level -- to be living with or affected by HIV.

HIV Plus is dedicated to helping our readers lead their fullest life possible by giving them tips, tools, and personal stories that motivate them to make the best of their friendships and relationships, work and leisure time, health care, and overall sense of well-being.  By helping our readers seek out their most rewarding and fulfilling experiences and to improve their outlook in everything they do -- to live out their lives above and beyond being HIV-positive -- they get the holistic effect of HIV Plus's Health+Spirit+Culture+Life focus. Please check out the November/December issue of HIV Plus for an additional story on Visual AIDS titled “Art for Everyone, Art Forever” by Benjamin Ryan.

Visit Visual AIDS Web Gallery here.

image: Frank Moore, Spring, 1996

April Web Gallery

Red, White and Blue
curated by Max-Carlos Martinez and Edward Winkleman

Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. For April, Max-Carlos Martinez and Edward Winkleman co-curated the current on-line exhibition which features the artwork of Archive Members; Ronald Casanova, Joe DeHoyos, Donna Haggerty, Reynold Hauser, Bryan Hoffman, Nancer LeMoins, Fran Lewis, Marc Lida, Eduardo Mirales, Joe Monroe, Frank Moore, Luna Luis Ortiz, Tara Popick, David Reyes, Daniel Roberts,  James Romberger, Rene Santos, Hugh Steers, Ferenc Suto, and TRET.

From the Curators’ Statement:
Given the commotion of the current Presidential campaign season, the cacophony of the highly contentious times in which we live, and the strong range of emotional associations of the three colors that characterize our nation’s patriotic symbols, choosing Red, White & Blue as the theme for our Visual AAIDS Web Gallery seemed an instantly obvious choice as we approached the slide archive. Running with the trilogy concept, we decided to choose work that included 1) Red, White & Blue as subject matter; 2) one or a combination of the colors as a formal device; or 3) one of the colors as a predominant emotional cue or metaphor.

Curators:
Edward Winkleman is the Owner/Director of Winkleman Gallery in New York City; he is also the author of an eponymous blog about art and politics, a contributing editor for the international online forum Art World Salon, and the author of various articles for online and print art publications.  Max-Carlos Martinez is the Associate Director at Winkleman Gallery as well as a visual artist. Martinez recently celebrated his third year at Winkleman and is also busy in the studio finishing a series of new paintings.

Visual AIDS Web Gallery

Visual AIDS Web Gallery curated by Adam Putnam

Dream Home Heartache curated by Adam Putnam

Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. For September, Adam Putnam curated the current on-line exhibition which features the artwork of Archive Members Amos Beaida, Philip Calkins, Vincent Cianni, Jose Luis Cortes, Larry Eades, Sean Earley, Per Eidspield, Robert Flack, Frank H. Jump, Gregory Maskwa, James Romberger, Steed Taylor, David Wojnarowicz, and Martin Wong.

From the Curators’ Statement:

A place to get lost… for a time.  This, at least, was my starting point when I first stared sifting through the Frank Moore Archive Project. A little romantic and a little scary. Thinking back on it now makes it seem kind of ironic as a labyrinth is basically a riddle, a spatial conundrum. The conundrum, for me, has always been about where bodies begin and end. Or put another way, where the OUTSIDE connects with the INSIDE… when things get reversed (turned inside out) and you suddenly find yourself on the out’s when you should have be on the in’s...

Curator:

Adam Putnam is an artist, born and currently living in New York City. He is represented by Taxter & Spengemann and has exhibited at Andrew Kreps and P.S. 1. Recently his work was on view in “Between the 2 Deaths” at the ZKM, Karlsruhe.  He has also initiated several projects including the one time journal “Into the Abyss” about sex and suicide in the landscape and a lecture series in 2005 entitled “Passing Time”. In January 2007, Putnam, and artist Shannon Ebner co-curated “Blow Both of Us” at Participant Inc. The exhibition highlighted the interconnected links between friends in a queer community spanning several decades.

For more information and images, visit:
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Visual AIDS web gallery curated by Tomoko Ashikawa

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Visual AIDS web gallery curated by Tomoko Ashikawa

Timothy Lonergan, Prometheus in Baltimore No. 1, 2002
digital print from video still image, 11" × 14"

 

I met Tomoko in her role as the curator/director at AG Gallery in Williamsburg.  She has put together a beautiful web gallery this month from the Visual AIDS slide registry, concentrating on documentation of performance. The artists she chose are John Eric Broaddus, Timothy Lonergan, Hunter Reynolds, Richard Sawdon Smith, Stephen Varble and Yolanda.

In reading her curator's statement, I learned she is a bit more wacky in her history as an artist than I had surmised from her sweet exterior!

I used to be a performance artist before my curatorial career and always believe that the body is the most effective medium to express how human beings are strong and sensitive. It is also the most effective medium to actually interact with the audience. I sold my used panties in the subway, gave audiences a menu with several options of sexual activities to choose from, and lay down with only my underwear in front of an audience and watched a Japanese pornographic video. There was always this amazing moment when I actually felt through my body that I shared the same time and experience with the audience. It was one of the reasons why I chose performance as a medium for my artwork.

[image from the Visual AIDS website]

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Camp Tales: The Art of Arnold Fern and Marc Lida

L: "Untitled," 1990. Arnold Fern.
oil on canvas, 18" x 16"
Courtesy of the Estate of Arnold Fern

R: "Freud Series: The Wolf Man I," 1985. Marc Lida
watercolor on paper, 22" x 30"
Courtesy of the Estate of Marc Lida

March 2007
VISUAL AIDS AND THE BODY ANNOUNCE NEW WEB EXHIBITION

Camp Tales: The Art of Arnold Fern and Marc Lida
curated by Jonathan Weinberg

at the VISUAL AIDS WEB GALLERY: http://www.thebody.com/visualaids/web_gallery/index.html

Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. For March, Jonathan Weinberg curates a very special exhibition featuring the work of two Archive Members,  Arnold Fern and Marc Lida.

From the Curator's Statement:

I have decided to focus on just two artists whose paintings are represented in the Frank Moore Archive Project: Arnold Fern and Marc Lida. Both were close friends whose life and art had a profound impact on my life. We all met in 1972 when we were teenagers at Buck's Rock, a visual and performing arts summer camp in New Milford, Connecticut. Marc and I were bunkmates and quickly became best friends for life. Arnold was a few years older and was one of the counselors who taught painting. Not yet twenty years old, he had the courage to dress in the heat of the summer, not in the camper's obligatory shorts and t-shirt, but in a kimono. Even more daringly, he insisted on applying gold nail polish to his toes and to the nails of any boy who was willing to risk aspersions to his masculinity. In this way we unconsciously learned from Fern the power of painting to transform the basest material and make it wondrous... 

The Curator:
Jonathan Weinberg, Ph.D. is a painter and art historian. He is the author of several books including Ambition and Love in Modern American Art and Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art. You can see his paintings at www.jonathanweinberg.com.

Current and past Web Gallery exhibitions can be viewed at: www.thebody.com/visualaids

Do You Remember the First Time?

"In The Scheme of Things," 1997
Jerry H. Hooten
collage, 14.5" x 16"

Do You Remember the First Time? 
curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak

VISUAL AIDS WEB GALLERY  : September 2006

Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. For September, Jeffrey Walkowiak curated the current on-line exhibition which features the artwork of Archive Members; John Eriic Broaddus, Joel Carlson, Rene Capone, Joe DeHoyos, Jimmy DeSana, Jerry Hooten, Jonathan Leiter, Mark Morrisroe, Rene Santos and Ferenc Suto.

from the Curator's Statement:

Sexual awakening is a subtle progression that beckons the feelings of lust, desire, love, shame, fear and hope. These feelings transcend description and yet are often recalled by visual references. This collection of images from the Visual AIDS slide library gesture towards these emotions through their simplicity, playfulness, seriousness and their ability to emote.  The transformation from youth into maturity is an experience one never loses.  In some respect, even as adults we may still feel like children, and vice versa. But we are only able to look back and realize what we have learned by moving forward. This learning process often encompasses uncomfortable, sometimes painful memories, but also allows for us to relish in the remembrance of good times past. Memories may take the shape of ambiguous dream-like scenes or sharp, clear instances as if it was of the moment.  All of the selected works utilize these forms whether real or fiction, and their ambiguity or exactness, allows others to recall their own awakenings.

Jeffrey Walkowiak is Co-Director of Sara Meltzer Gallery. Before, he was the Director of Henry Urbach Architecture and has worked as co-director at Fredrich Petzel Gallery. Jeffrey also worked directly with the Kramlich Collection through Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services. Independent projects include Alain Levitt & Danielle Levitt, SoHo Grand Hotel, 2006, Video 2005, Art In General New York NY 2005; Salad Days, Artists Space, New York NY 2004, Video (Por)Traits, Art in General, New York NY 2004, Brewester 2003: Collaboration, Brewster, NY 2003, Scenes: Knüt Asdam, David Nan, Mauro Restiffe and Dean Sameshima, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York NY 2001. He holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

BETWEEN TEN: Exhibition @ International AIDS Conference in Toronto

"On Message (detail #94)," 2005
Stephen Andrews
crayon on parchment, 8.5" x 11" each

VISUAL AIDS announces BETWEEN TEN Exhibition

Hosted by International AIDS Conference in Toronto

@

SPIN Gallery
1100 Queen Street West
Toronto
Canada

August 14-18, 2006

Reception: Tuesday, August 15 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm

AIDS2006 -- International AIDS Conference
XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada
www.aids2006.org

View selections from the exhibition online.

participating artists:
Stephen Andrews
Joe De Hoyos
Nancer LeMoins
Luna Luis Ortiz
Eric Rhein
Steed Taylor
Albert Winn

Visual AIDS is proud to present the exhibition "Between Ten" in conjunction with the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, from Aug. 13-18, 2006. The exhibition showcases the work of seven artists bracketing the 10 years since the introduction of HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) in 1996. "Between Ten" provides an insightful look into diverse works by artists who continue to live with HIV/AIDS.

About the artists:

Albert Winn is a Los Angeles-based photographer who has been documenting his changing body and Jewish identity for over a decade in the series My Life Until Now, included in the exhibition are Self-Portrait with Scott, 1991; Tony From the Writing Group, 1996; After the Cocktail, 2000; and Before My Fourth Sculptra Treatment, 2006.

From San Francisco, Joe De Hoyos has been creating paper collages culled from magazines for almost 20 years, recycling and re-appropriating images to speak about AIDS, sex, family, and American life. In the series Eulogy, he creates memorials to those who died of AIDS, such as Keith Haring, Al Parker, Ryan White, and Sylvester.  His collages convey his ideas in poetic terms, as in Rainbow Viral Load, which speaks of AIDS, but, as De Hoyos states, "visually it is composed of graphic dots and tiny images of various objects -- the dots being the 'virus' and the objects being the 'load.'"

Nancer LeMoins is a printmaker from San Francisco whose works have directly addressed AIDS activism and her experience living with HIV with urgent images and text, like AIDS Isn't Over?, Sleep Cry Eat, The Only Devils, and Death and Decay. LeMoins states, "Art for me is the purest portrait of any time or event. I want very strongly to assure that this epidemic is understood and remembered as humans who lived through it, as their lives and pain, emotions and deaths, and not simply as statistics in a history book."

Luna Luis Ortiz is a photographer and AIDS activist from New York City. He began photographing "after I became HIV positive in 1986 at age 14, since then I started to document my life through self-portraits," including Glow Toy and Pensive State. Later he turned his attention to his friends. His portraits show the constructed glamour and tender beauty of his life in the ballroom community.

New York City-based Eric Rhein was one of the first 10 artists to join the Archive Project. His ongoing Leaf Project pays tribute to people the artist has known who died of complications from AIDS. Rhein says, "The project which began in 1996 with tributes to 80 individuals now numbers some 170, mirroring the ongoing AIDS struggle." In his series Anthropomorphosis, his delicate wire drawings and constructions represent the transformative relationship among human, nature, and the spiritual world.

Stephen Andrews is a Toronto-based, conceptual artist. His body of work is diverse in theme and form, but often re-appropriates images from the media and repositions them to discuss chance, mortality, and memory. In his Weather series, landscape images of clouds and storms, see Storm Front, are printed on pig intestines and allegorically address the daily shifting of emotions across a psychological landscape.  On Message is a series of some 30 drawings creating a short animated video, in which images and text are shuffled and reshuffled to tell four different stories. The drawings re-create the look of four-color reproduction through the use of a homemade separation technique, and are done as rubbings using window screening and crayons.

Steed Taylor is based in New York City and has exhibited his photography, drawings, and site-specific, public works internationally. Of his series Missing, Taylor states, "While trying to address my AIDS diagnosis and fold this information into my art practice, I decided to explore what my life would look like if I was removed from it. Focusing on the most romantic and bucolic time of life, childhood, I selected the warmest photographs of my childhood. I marked myself out of these images, then cropped and enlarged and re-photographed them." Some examples of these include Watching TV, The Little Car, and Catching Tadpoles.  Taylor's ongoing site-specific Road Tattoo memorials are "composed of cultural designs previously appropriated to mark skin and placed in locations of individual or community significance." His most recent Road Tattoo, Messenger, is a tribute to NYC bike messengers.

 

March 2006 Web Gallery: Anti-Bodies curated by Michael Sappol

Untitled 3 (Physician Desk Reference), 1993
Gin Louie
book with mixed media


VISUAL AIDS AND THE BODY ANNOUNCE NEW WEB EXHIBITION

Anti-Bodies curated by Michael Sappol

March 2006


Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. For March, Michael Sappol curated the current on-line exhibition which features the artwork of Archive Members: Robert Flack, Frank Green, Rebecca Guberman, Nancer LeMoins, Gin Louie, Eric Rhein, Paul Thek, Richard J. Treitner, Albert Velasco, Wilmer Velez and Kevin Wesley

From the Curator's Statement:

The body has an ambivalent status as a figuration of self. The flesh we inhabit is cloaked in, and conditioned by, structures of feeling, legally-enforced categories, political ideologies, religious beliefs, cultural appurtenances. Family histories, national histories, global histories, and the random, accidental conjunctions of individual life, shape our sexual practices, eating and drinking, work, athletics, even the most profoundly existential experiences of breathing, touching, moving in space. Our bodies are put together by forces beyond our control, beyond our immediate knowledge and consciousness. And the resultant productions -- the bodies we inhabit and operate -- are extravagant, prolific, only partly domesticated.... In every piece on display [in this web gallery], the inner view is the outer view -- views imbued with fear, grief, pleasure, desire, a wish to transcend.
 

Michael Sappol is the author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in 19th-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2002) and a curator-historian at the National Library of Medicine (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. His latest exhibition at the Library, Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body, runs from February 2006 to February 2008. A new book, Dream Anatomy, a historical essay on imaginative and evocative representations of anatomical dissection and the dissected body, is due to appear in fall 2006. Current projects deal with medical authority, the body and representation, in several registers: a history and iconography of 20th-century popular medical illustration; a collection of essays on 19th-century "odd cases," which looks at cases in which medical, legal and literary narratives intersect; an edited multi-volume compilation of historical medical films.

David Humphrey: Nineteen Penises

"Shrine," 1998
Tom Shooter
silver point on karma paper, 6.5" x 4.5"

VISUAL AIDS AND THE BODY ANNOUNCE NEW WEB EXHIBITION
February 2006 Web Gallery:

Nineteen Penises
curated by David Humphrey

Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. For February, David Humphrey curated the current on-line exhibition which features the artwork of Archive Members: David B. Abbott, Michael Berube, Raynes Birkbeck, Michael Harwood, Jerry Hooten, Gregory Maskwa, Tim McCarron, Michael Mitchell, John Morrison, Berni Ortiz, Alfred Santiago, Rene Santos, Tom Shooter, and Richard Treitner.

from the Curator's Statement:

Artists and non-artists alike have been depicting the penis for much of recorded time, in spite of the confusing and sometimes ferocious prohibition against its representation. This selection of artworks from the Frank Moore archive charts a circuitous itinerary through the vast continent of penis. Some of the members included here have been fashioned by hand, others are documented photographically, and all were emphatically made to be looked at. Whether the artist’s purpose was to arouse, protest, explain or provoke, each work testifies to an irrepressible desire to look at what we've been told over and over should not be seen in public.

David Humphrey is an artist represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in NYC, where currently he is in a two-person show with Jeff Gaunt. He will also be having a solo exhibition later this month at Triple Candie in Harlem. He has curated many exhibitions including Life and Limb at Feigen Contemporary, NY, When I Think About You I Touch Myself, at the New York Academy of Art, Tricky Adios, Hello to Handmade Words at KS Art, NY and Normotic at One Great Jones, NY.

UPDATE (2/1/06, 4:43pm): Walter Robinson writes today in Artnet News :

"NINETEEN PENISES" AT VISUAL AIDS
Brokeback Mountain may be the favorite of critics and audiences both, but does it have any real male nudity? No? For that, we turn to "Nineteen Penises," the new "web gallery" exhibition curated by artist David Humphrey and presented by Visual AIDS at its www.thebody.com website. Selected from the Frank Moore Archive Project, the web exhibition features male nudes in art by David B. Abbott, Michael Berube, Raynes Birkbeck, Michael Harwood, Jerry Hooten, Gregory Maskwa, Tim McCarron, Michael Mitchell, John Morrison, Berni Ortiz, Alfred Santiago, Rene Santos, Tom Shooter and Richard Treitner. The show "charts a circuitous itinerary," writes Humphrey, "through the vast continent of the penis." To view the show, click here.

Compassion, Responsibility + Independence from the Tisch High School Photography Program

Untitled, 1991
W. Benjamin Incerti
silver gelatin print, 42" x 30"

VISUAL AIDS AND THE BODY ANNOUNCE
VISUAL AIDS WEB GALLERY
JANUARY 2006

Compassion, Responsibility and Independence
curated by Students from the NYU Tisch High School Photography Program 

Visual AIDS wishes everyone a Happy New Year!  For the first month of 2006, Visual AIDS is proud to announce its new web gallery is curated by the students of  the NYU Tisch Summer High School Photography Program, lead by instructor Erika DeVries.  Each month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. 

The current on-line exhibition features the artwork of Archive Members; Ali, Vincent Cianni, Brent Nicholson Earle, Max Greenberg, Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, W. Benjamin Incerti, John Lesnick, John Morrison, Mark Morrisroe, Richard Renaldi, Juan Rivera, Nevin Robinson, Nelson Edwin Rodriguez, Steed Taylor, Joel Wateres and Albert Winn. 

>From the Curators' Statement:

This month's web gallery was enthusiastically curated by a group of 16 teenage photographers. The students came from all over the United States to study photography and imaging at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where they received college-level studio and critical studies instruction during an intensive one month residency...Utilizing the Frank Moore Archive Project at Visual AIDS, the students worked in small groups to collaboratively select work, with a focus on photo-based artists. Each group was asked to work together around the ideas of Compassion, Responsibility and Independence. The students generated these concepts in their personal comments and writings about their own work and interests... Working with the Archive Project was conscious raising on many levels for the students. They gained insight into curating as a career; how HIV/AIDS is transmitted and treated; what an archive is; and experienced intimate access to a nonprofit arts organization, how to articulate thoughts and feelings in relation to images, and how to collaborate...This opportunity is one that has and will continue to reveal new lessons learned at different stages in these sixteen students’ lives.

Erika DeVries is an instructor at New York University Department of Photography & Imaging.  The Tisch Summer High School Photography Program at NYU focus is on using photography as a tool of communication and emphasis is put on the articulation of ideas, creative expression and personal exploration. The Students gain the visual and verbal vocabulary to further articulate their interests in relation to creating and discussing imagery. The culmination of the program will be an exhibition of student’s photographic work in the Tisch Gulf & Western Gallery and an exchange portfolio. The course takes full advantage of the creative communities in New York City.  For more information visit: http://photoandimaging.net/precollege  Erika DeVries is an artist who lives and works in New York.