VAVA VOOM
The
5th Annual Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards & Spring
Benefit
Honoring
Mary Ellen
Carroll presented by David Joselit
John Kelly
presented by Philip Yenawine
Mary Ellen Carroll is a conceptual artist who lives and works
in New York City and Houston, Texas. Moving deftly among large-scale
architectural interventions, experimental film, staged events,
sculpture, photography, and book projects, her work interrogates the
relationship between subjectivity, language, and power. The notion of
representation and identification has always been at the core of
Carroll’s oeuvre, and her dedication to a political and social critique
that is consciously developed without a signature style. In 2010
SteidlMACK published the monograph Mary
Ellen Carroll: MEC, with text by Jonathan Flatley and Hamza
Walker. Mary Ellen Carroll is also the executor of The Estate of Robert
Blanchon. www.mecarroll.com
John
Kelly is a performance and visual artist whose creative work runs
the gamut from mixed media dance theatre works, to vocal concerts, to
exhibitions. His work explores the character of creative genius as it
occurs in the gradations between the ephemeral and the tangible.
Specific works have pondered Egon Schiele, Caravaggio, Antonin Artaud,
Joni Mitchell, Barbette, Jean Cocteau; autobiography, the Berlin Wall,
the Troubadours, the AIDS epidemic, and Expressionistic Film. These
works have been performed at The Kitchen, PS 1, the Warhol Museum, the
Whitney Biennial, The Tate Modern, and BAM. Paintings, drawings,
photographs and video works have been exhibited in galleries and museums
including Alexander Gray Associates; MIT List Visual Art Center; ICA
Philadelphia; MACRO, Italy; Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Italy; New Museum,
NY. He was
a recent Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Art at the
American Academy in Rome, and
is currently a 2010 Armory Artist in Residence at New
York’s Park Avenue Armory. www.johnkellyperformance.org
Plus A
Night of Cabaret with
Joey
Arias
Joseph Keckler
Christopher Tanner
Hosted by: Nona
Hendryx
DJ Bill Coleman
Monday May 24, 2010
7:30 – 10:30PM
Avenue
116
Tenth Avenue NYC
TICKETS (Reserved seating is limited and selling fast. Get your
tickets
today!)
$2,000 Table for four (reserved seating)
$500 Patron Individual (reserved seating)
$275 Individual ($250 if purchased before
May 10)
$175 Artist Ticket (Sponsored
by HUGO BOSS)
RAFFLE
- Grand Prize: 3 VIP nights at Gansevoort Turks &
Caicos (valued at $3,500)
- Oliver Peoples sunglasses,
3 men and 3 women frames, (valued at $2,400)
- Equinox
6 month All Access Membership (valued at $1,590)
- HUGO
BOSS $1,000 shopping spree
Purchase
tickets HERE
or contact Visual AIDS: (212) 627-9855
Social Change Initiatives