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'Tis the Season for Giving...

Happy Holidays from Visual AIDS



Season's Greetings and thank you for supporting Visual AIDS as we enter our 23^rd year working with contemporary art to end AIDS and historicizing the contributions of artists with HIV.
 
Please keep Visual AIDS vital by making a year-end gift. Your tax-deductible donation is essential in helping Visual AIDS continue great arts programming. Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to HIV prevention and AIDS awareness through producing and presenting visual art projects, while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS.  We are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement.
 
Your contribution ensures we can expand successful projects like our HIV-prevention artist editions.  Our recent Play Smart trading card featuring photographs by Aaron Cobbett, Slava Mogutin, inkedKenny and Greg Mitchell, is an honest and straight-forward approach to promote harm reduction, HIV testing and post-exposure prophylaxis. Over 18,000 trading cards packaged with condoms and lubed were distributed for free nationwide. Our last exhibition To Believe at La MaMa La Galleria showcased work exploring the turn towards ritual and spirituality artists under duress can take, whether disease, financial or other distress.  This month for World AIDS Day we partnered with Ira Sachs to distribute Last Address to over twenty museums and art institutes, including the Whitney, New Museum, Museum of Art and Design, Warhol Museum, Wexner and Tate Modern.  
 
Please consider making a generous, tax-deductible gift today. Your participation keeps Visual AIDS alive.  Click HERE for details or to donate online.

Do Good, Get Good...

Get something for yourself while supporting Visual AIDS at our Postcards from the Edge benefit.

Hosted by CRG Gallery from January 7-9, 2011

BENEFIT SALE
Take a guess: Over 1500 anonymously displayed postcard-size masterpieces. First-come, first-served. $5 suggested admission.

Saturday, January 8, 2011 from 10:00 - 6:00
$85 EACH. Buy 4 and get the fifth as our Thank You.

Sunday, January 9, 2011 from 12:00 - 4:00
$85 EACH. Buy 2 and get the third as our Thank You.

PREVIEW PARTY
The only opportunity to see the entire exhibition. No sales.
Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 from 6 to 8 p.m.
$85 admission includes one raffle ticket.
Admission payable at door. Participating artists attend free.
Raffle winner will select the FIRST postcard that evening. Additional raffle tickets available. Silent Auction of small works by Larissa Bates, Nicole Eisenman, Harmony Hammond, David Humphrey and Marc Swanson. New this year, top 10 bidders of VIP Access will secure the first 10 places in line -- no waiting.

Postcards from the Edge is an exhibit and benefit sale of over a thousand one-of-a-kind postcard-size works of art by established and emerging artists. The fun twist about the Postcards from the Edge benefit is that all artwork is exhibited anonymously. The works are signed on the back only and though viewers receive a list of all participating artists, they don't know who created which piece until after purchased! It makes for a fun guessing game, but also puts all the artwork on an even playing field, whether you show at a blue chip gallery or just graduated from art school...you don't know who you might be showing next to or whos art collection you might end up in!  All proceeds support the programs of Visual AIDS.

Get a sneak-peek at Postcards from the Edge on Facebook.

Smithsonian Protest March

**MARCH TO PROTEST SMITHSONIAN CENSORSHIP, SUNDAY DECEMBER 19**

Details for this event click here

 

NYC EVENTS:

 

The New York Public Library - Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 7:00 PM, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium : Conversation with Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward, curators of Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, moderated by Jason Baumann, who coordinates LGBT collections for the New York Public Library

 

International Center for Photography - Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 7:00 PM, 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street New York, NY 10036, RSVP required: [email protected] -free: Screening and discussion with: Nayland Blake, Joy Episalla, Jonathan D. Katz, Kristen Lubben, Amy Scholder, Marvin Taylor

 

 

P·P·O·W Gallery is screening the original full length version of this film at the gallery until December 22nd. 

 

David Wojnarowicz' A Fire in My Belly is available to view online.

 

LINK FOR VIDEOS

 

Please contact P·P·O·W Gallery for screening requests or inquiries.

 

 

NEWS:

 

Official Statement by P·P·O·W Gallery and The Estate of David Wojnarowicz

 

Statement by Johnathan D. Katz, co-curator of Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

 

The New York Time's article, As Ants Crawl Over Crucifix, Dead Artist Is Assailed Again by Holland Cotter

 

Washington Post article by Philip Kennicott

 

The New York Time's Op- Ed column, Gay Bashing at the Smithsonian, by Frank Rich

 

Listing of venues screening A Fire in My Belly via HIDE/SEEK.org

 

Please go to P·P·O·W Gallery's Facebook page for full list of related articles and links

AIDS in FOCUS film screening

	AIDS in FOCUS Artists Responding to the World Pandemic
	In observance of World AIDS Awareness, CINEMAROSA presents the program “AIDS in FOCUS,” stories about the pandemic and how it still affects the art community. The screening presentation includes the compelling feature film directed by Dan Wolman, “Tied Hands,” the story of a sensitive and complex relationship between a mother and her ailing son, and the shorts films; "Undercover Cross" directed by visual artists Cesar Wilson Vera and Jeff Ingram, a personal account of their HIV+ condition and artistic work, and the video project "This Pleasant and Grateful Asylum" created by well known Bronx dancer and choreographer, Arthur Aviles. Attending artists Cesa Wilson Vera, Jeff Ingram, Arthur Aviles and dancers will join Hector Canonge, Director of CINEMAROSA, for a discussion and Q&A session with the audience. Following the presentations, the public is invited to join the closing event for the art exhibition FRAMING AIDS 2010: ABSENCE at the Partnership Gallery . Light refreshments and cocktail reception will follow. TIED HANDS Dir. Dan Wolman Israel, 2006, 60 min. A compelling film tells the story of a sensitive and complex relationship between a mother and her ailing son. In her, turbulent, journey in the streets of Tel-Aviv, old truths from her past come back to life and threaten to break down a wall of denials behind which, she's been hiding all her life. UNDERCOVER CROSS Dirs. Cesar Wilson Vera and Jeff Ingram USA, 2009, 30 min. Enthusiastic and excited New York artist, Vera, and Californian artist, Ingram, have been friends for 20 years. Their collaboration in an exhibition inspired them to work in a project about AIDS. Terrified, but with much courage, they expose their own HIV status and how they have learned to creatively approach their life and artistic projects. THIS PLEASANT AND GREATFUL ASYLUM Arthur Aviles USA, 2009, 7 min. A video project created by well known dancer and coreographer from the Bronx, Arthur Aviles, the film is a ritual dance that celebrates the freedom of sexuality, the difficulty passion, freedom and dangers of sex, while challenging the conventions of commitment in a post AIDS epidemic World.
	FREE ADMISSION but RSVP is recommended: [email protected]
	Directions to QMA: #7 Train from 42 Street or E, F, V, R Trains to 74th Street & Roosevelt Avenue, change for #7 Train (Main Street-Flushing Bound). Exit at Willest Point/Citi Fields Stadium, walk in the direction of the park. Museum is located in front of the metal globe, the Unisphere.
	More information visit www.cinemarosa.org or send us an email
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	HOSTING PARTNER	FUNDED IN PART BY			MEDIA PARTNERS
	CINEMAROSA IS MADE POSSIBLE, IN PART, BY PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, WITH FUNDS FROM THE DECENTRALIZATION PROGRAM, A REGRANT PROGRAM OF THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, ADMINISTERED BY THE QUEENS COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, AND INDIVIDUAL DONORS.

 

DEADLINE: Postcards from the Edge

ARTWORK DEADLINE: Friday, December 10, 2010



Attention Artists:

POSTMARK DEADLINE for artwork is this Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. 

Artwork can also be dropped off at the Visual AIDS office, 526 West 26th Street (btw 10th & 11th Avenues) Suite 501, Mon-Fri from 10-6, or after hours a slim envelope can be slid under the door.  Drop off and deliveries will be accepted until Friday, December 17 until 6PM. NO ARTWORK will be accepted after that point.  Please DO NOT drop off or mail artwork to CRG Gallery.  

Click HERE for details and submission forms.

Also visit Visual AIDS's Facebook page for a sneak-peeks of some of the Postcards from the Edge artworks. 

Protest Action Meeting

Protest Action Meeting  - David Wojnarowicz Censored Video

Meeting - Thursday Dec. 9, 6:30 pm

Location:
P.P.O.W GALLERY
511 W 25th St., Suite 301 – between 10th and 11th Ave.
New York, NY
Gallery phone: (212) 647-1044

STOP THE CENSORSHIP!

When he died in 1992, David Wojnarowicz, artist and writer with AIDS, left a body of work about the disease that remains unrivaled for its power and beauty. On December 1, 2010 the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC celebrated World AIDS Day by capitulating to the demands of right-wing politicians and an anti-gay religious group and removing David’s volcanic video rant, A Fire in My Belly, from an important and ground-breaking exhibition about art and sexual difference, Hide/Seek. 

For more information or to join the emailing list contact [email protected]

Protester at National Portrait Gallery

Mark Morrisroe monograph

New Mark Morrisroe monograph published by jrp ringier.

from jrp ringier website:

The extraordinarily diverse work of the American photographer Mark Morrisroe has until now mostly been exhibited and discussed in connection with his famous Boston colleagues Nan Goldin and David Armstrong. Like them, Morrisroe documented his circle of friends, whose lifestyles were inspired by punk and bohemia. He finished his studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1982, a few years later than Goldin and Armstrong. He moved to New York in the middle of the 1980s, and died of AIDS-related illnesses in 1989 when he was only 30. Mark Morrisroe's short period of creativity in the 1980s was astonishingly productive and stands out because of its individual aesthetic. He captured his friends in painterly portraits and nude photographs; the Polaroid camera became a mirror of his own body, reflecting its illness and decay. During the three years leading up to his death he transferred his photographic experiments more and more to the darkroom, where he used pages from porn magazines and X-ray images of himself as negatives.

This first comprehensive monograph, realized on occasion of an exhibition at the Fotomuseum Winterthur and in collaboration with The Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection), shows many unknown works: from the tumultuous punk beginnings to the sandwich prints produced through extensive laboratory work, the graininess and muted colors of which are reminiscent of Pictorialism. The book is illustrated with more than 500 images, and accompanied by newly commissioned essays and a complete biography.

For details visit www.jrpringier.com

General Idea: Imagevirus by Gregg Bordowitz

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Book Launch with a conversation between AA Bronson and Gregg Bordowitz

Friday, December 10, 7pm

Artists Space 38 Green Street, 3rd floor, NYC

Published by Afterall Books, 2010
112p. ISBN: 978-1-8463806-5-5
$16 / $12 for members of Artists Space

To celebrate the launch of General Idea: Imagevirus, a new book by Gregg Bordowitz for Afterall Books' One Work series, Artists Space is hosting a discussion between Bordowitz and General Idea member AA Bronson.

Imagevirus started in the mid-1980s, when AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, working together as General Idea, created a symbol using the acronym AIDS, boldly arranging the letters in a manner that resembled Robert Indiana’s LOVE logo. This launched a series of paintings, sculptures, videos, posters, exhibitions and ephemera that from 1987 to 1994 used the mechanism of viral transmission to investigate the term AIDS as both word and image.

Emerging out of the 1960s Canadian communal counterculture, an environment populated by experimentations with gender, media and polymorphous perversity, General Idea came together as a three-man outfit of anti-art art-pranksters who worked prolifically and exploited almost every medium, from print and exhibition to broadcast. The group thrilled and confounded, but always delivered an extraordinary display of control over both format and dissemination. Imagevirus is one of their most important works, and the perfect illustration of their way of working.

In the book, Gregg Bordowitz, an artist and a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, analyzes Imagevirus from the perspective of his own involvement with activist art initiatives in New York during the 1980s and 90s. Reconsidering the battles fought over sexuality and representation in those years, he explores how Imagevirus infected urban spaces across the world, offering a new model for artistic production, one strongly suited to ideological struggle.

Visual AIDS at NADA Art Fair, Miami

Visual AIDS will be sharing Booth 103 with La MaMa La Galleria, at the NADA Art Fair from Dec 1-5, 2010.  Artwork from the To Believe exhibition, including work by Clifford Smith and David Cannon Dashiell will be on display.  Cover The Stump tote bags will also be available.  If you are in Miami, please stop by.