VisualAIDS

HIV & Spirituality at Brooklyn Hospital Center

HIV & Sipirituality

Friday, December 3, 2010 from 9:30 am - Noon

The Brooklyn Hospital Center
3rd Floor Auditorium
121 DeKalb Avenue
Brooklyn, New York

Panelist
Rev. Joyce McDonald
Geneva Musgrave
Rev. Deborah Rice
Angel Luis Torres

RSVP: [email protected] / 718-250-8791

Through the eyes of Love, Miami

Visual AIDS announces Postcards From the Edge

 



Visual AIDS is excited to announce that the next Postcards From the Edge benefit will be hosted by CRG Gallery from January 7-9, 2011

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

BENEFIT SALE
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, January 7, 2011 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM
$85 admission, payable at the door, includes a raffle ticket for the chance to win the FIRST postcard that evening. Participating artists attend free.

Proceeds benefit Visual AIDS.
Cash, check, credit card (MC/VISA/AMEX) accepted.

Postcards From the Edge is a Visual AIDS benefit show and sale of original, postcard-sized works on paper by established and emerging artists. All works are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The works are signed on the back and exhibited so the artists' signatures cannot be seen. While buyers receive a list of all participating artists, they don't know who created which piece until purchased. All proceeds support the programs of Visual AIDS.  Click HERE for details.

 

Call to Artists
Visual AIDS invite artists to donate a 4" x 6" original work on paper for our Postcards From the Edge exhibition and benefit sale. Painting, drawing, photography, printmaking and mixed media are all welcome. Click HERE for details and submission forms. 
DEADLINE: Friday, December 10, 2010.

 

Peter Wyman: Dreamscape series

Fresh Paintings by Pete Wyman

November 10, 2010 - February 10, 2011

Offices of Mayor Bill Bell
204 City Hall
Durham, NC 27701

Call for films, performance and installations related to HIV/AIDS

 

Call for projects

VIHsion
An HIV/AIDS film festival
2nd edition
november 2010

VIHsion is in search of short films addressing issues related to HIV/AIDS for its 2nd edition, which will be held in November 2010 in Montreal, Théâtre Ste-Catherine, 260 rue Ste-Catherine Est. All formats and genres are welcome.

Also this year, we are looking for performances, installations and conferences addressing the issue to HIV/AIDS. Feel free to submit your projects.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION EXTENDED November 8th 2010
procedure and form for submission

Questions or comments/Contact
[email protected]

Web Gallery: Treat My Words curated by John Chaich

Treat My Words
Curated by John Chaich

View WEB GALLERY here*

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, John Chaich curates the artwork of Archive Members; Stephen Andrews, Robert Blanchon, Peter Cherone, Joe DeHoyos, William Donovan, Robert Farber, Max Greenberg, Bryan Hoffman, horea, W. Benjamin Incerti, Affreka Jefferson, Frank Jump, Samuel Lewis, Steed Taylor, Frederick Weston and David Wojnarowicz.

From the Curator's Statement: As a writer and graphic designer, I am naturally drawn to using words. Yet the more I study design, the less interested I am in executing typographic perfection as I am understanding how the way words look can imply or alter what these words mean...  Typography by skill is a visual treatment of words...  Typography by philosophy is a medium of meaning... Or, according to Bringhurst, "a craft by which the meaning of a text (or the absence of meaning) can be clarified, honored and shared, or knowingly disguised." Can the same be said for the way artists work with text?  This quest for finding works that use text-and what visual treatments they employ to create meaning-guided my curatorial exploration in the through the Visual AIDS archives.  (read more)

About the Curator:
Beginning his career as an HIV testing counselor and community educator, John Chaich has designed a range of multi-arts projects to raise AIDS awareness, from an educational theatre project funded with support from Do Something and the Red Hot Organization, to a nationally distributed edutainment zine by and for young adults, to social marketing campaigns recognized by Print magazine and most recently, assisting Visual AIDS with their annual broadside campaigns. He has written on visual responses to HIV/AIDS for Art & Understanding magazine, as well as contributed to BUST magazine and the anthology, Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image.

image: Joe DeHoyos, Stay Stay Stay, 1995

Get Your Game On!

Play Smart trading cards featured in A&U magazine.

Play Smart is an honest and straight-forward approach to promote harm reduction, HIV testing and post-exposure prophylaxis. Trading cards are packaged with a sticker, condoms and lube. The back of each trading card features information you need to know to Get Your Game On & Play Smart.

EXIT ART: Activism and Alternative Art

Exhibitions: Paul Thek & Peter Hujar

Paul Thek: cityscapes and other ideas

Peter Hujar: Thek’s studio 1967

October 16 – November 27, 2010

Alexander and Bonin, 132 Tenth Avenue (btw 18 & 19 Ave) NYC

Tuesday–Saturday, 10am – 6pm

Paul Thek: cityscapes and other ideas, presents two rarely exhibited bodies of work – his cityscape paintings and his drawings for public monuments. The second floor gallery will contain a selection of newly discovered photographs taken by Peter Hujar in Thek’s studio in 1967.

Thek moved between New York and various European cities in the 1970s.  In addition to the sculptures and installations for which he is best known, he made paintings and drawings based on observation in Ponza (Italy), Fire Island and Manhattan.  They punctuate a profoundly disparate practice and suggest a continued engagement with his place in the world.  Living in New York for much of the 1980s he made chromatically similar ‘bad’ paintings and numerous cityscapes viewed from the windows and rooftop of his East 3rd street apartment.  Thek’s cityscapes depict the metropolis in which he lived and worked, situated in the midst of the city amongst towering obelisks and alongside its many inhabitants. 

The drawings for public monuments, while related to the cityscapes in their urban focus, tend toward more political subject-matter. Perhaps the most well known of this series – drawings of Richard Serra’s ill-fated Tilted Arc re-imagined as a petting zoo – show Thek as a playful ironist skewering a project which would eventually change the face of public art. While this gesture might be read as overly populist, it also seems to suggest that a public use of the contested artwork could, in a sense, save it. 

The images Peter Hujar took in his close friend’s studio in 1967 lovingly probe its ephemera, Thek’s process and his public persona. Originally taken for potential use in association with Thek’s solo exhibition at Stable Gallery, many images in this series providentially document the making of his infamous sculpture The Tomb/Death of a Hippie. Now widely considered to be the masterwork of his 1960s sculpture, The Tomb was destroyed after languishing in storage, with Thek reportedly having refused delivery of the piece in 1981.  Aside from the one used for the Stable gallery announcement, these images have never been published or exhibited.  Photographs from this studio session were uncovered during the research for Paul Thek: Diver, a retrospective curated by Elisabeth Sussman and Lynn Zelevansky.  Diver opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York on October 21st and travels to the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

ART&AIDS: Loving Life - GMHC at Leslie Lohman Gallery

 

is proud to host. . .



ART&AIDS: Loving Life 

 

Preston Cros, Luminous, Digital Photograp

An Exhibition of

 the Humanity and Spirit

of Artists Living with HIV & AIDS

 

October 26 - 30



Curated by

 Osvaldo Perdomo
 and
David Livingston

 

OPENING RECEPTION 

October 26

6:00 - 8:00 PM

(RSVP requested: 212-367-1014)

Proceeds from sales go directly to individual artists
Selected pieces for Silent Auction to benefit GMHC
  

26 Wooster Street (between Canal & Grand) New York, NY 10013 212-431-2609 www.leslielohman.org