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Postcards from the Edge: Sneak-Peek!

2009-12-28T17:52:02-05:00

Postcards from the Edge

Hosted by ZieherSmith, 516 West 20th Street, NYC

Preview Party: Friday, Jan. 8 from 6 - 8 PM

Admission is $75 and includes a raffle ticket to win 1st choice of any postcard. Additional raffle tickets will be available at the door. Participating artists attend free. A silent auction of original work by Jack Pierson, Marcus Linnenbrink and Aaron Cobbett will also be available during the Preview Party. We will also auction the opportunity to choose any postcard! No other artwork will be sold until the Benefit Sale begins on Saturday.

Benefit Sale: Saturday, Jan. 9, 11:00-6:00 & Sunday, Jan. 10, 12:00-4:00

The event is first-come, first-served, with a suggested admission of $5. Over 1500 original postcard-size works of art will be available for the uniform price of $75 EACH. Buy four and get a fifth as our Thank You. Get details HERE.

Can't wait to get a peek, visit our Facebook page to see some of the artwork.

There are too many artists to list! But some of the participating artists include: Michael Alago • Meredith Allen • Polly Apfelbaum • Ida Applebroog • Dotty Attie • John Baldessari • Burt Barr • Barton Lidice Benes • Kermit Berg • Nayland Blake • Ross Bleckner • Mel Bochner • Dove Bradshaw • John Brill • Brice Brown • Nancy Brooks Brody • AA Bronson • Robert Buck • Matthew Buckingham • Suzanne Caporael • Rick Castro • Omar Chacon • Patty Chang • Vincent Cianni • Greg Colson • Lesley Dill • Eric Doeringer • Jeanne Dunning • Joy Episalla • John Evans • Neil Farber • Adriana Farmiga • Tony Feher • Louise Fishman • Jacques Flechemuller • Robert Flynt • Adam Fowler • Allen Frame • Adam Fuss • Joy Garnett • Gio Black Peter • Maria Elena Gonzalez • Deborah Grant • Tony Gray • Joanne Greenbaum • Rodney Alan Greenblat • Ann Hamilton • Jane Hammond • Marc Handelman • Erik Hanson • K8 Hardy • Michael Harwood • Karen Heagle • Geoffrey Hendricks • Arturo Herrera • Matthias Herrmann • Jim Hodges • Scott Hug • Kate Huh • Scott Hunt • David Humphrey • Alfredo Jaar • Xylor Jane • Bill Jensen • Michael Joo • Betsy Kaufman • John Kelly • Brian Kenny • Lucretia Knapp • Jeff Koons • Joyce Kozloff • Melora Kuhn • Jeff Ladouceur • Scooter Laforge • Joseph LaPiana • Louis Laurita • Louise Lawler • Paul Lee • Cary Leibowitz • Glenn Ligon • Markus Linnenbrink • Matt Lipps • Robert Longo • Whitfield Lovell • Lovett/Codagnone • Elaine Lustig Cohen • Giles Lyon • Noah Lyon • Joe Mama-Nitzberg • Yeni Mao • Liz Markus • Kerry James Marshall • Eddie Martinez • McDermott & McGough • Sarah McEneaney • Dominic McGill • Michael Meads • Julie Mehretu • Ann Messner • Billy Miller • Marilyn Minter • Slava Mogutin • Ivan Monforte • Amy Morken • Carrie Moyer • Robyn O’Neil • Yoko Ono • Catherine Opie • Sarah Oppenheimer • Tom Otterness • Rachel Owens • Hermes Payrhuber • Sheila Pepe • Emilio Perez • Dawit Petros • Paul Pfeiffer • Howardena Pindell • Javier Piñón • Peter Plagens • Carole Pope • William Pope.L • Amy Jean Porter • Ernesto Pujol • Paul Henry Ramirez • Jessica Rankin • Erwin Redl • David Reed • Richard Renaldi • Hunter Reynolds • Kay Rosen • Ed Ruscha • Betye Saar • Stuart Sandford • Jonathan Santlofer • Gary Schneider • Paul Mpagi Sepuya • Donna Sharrett • Mark Sheinkman • Kate Shepherd • Tom Slaughter • Kiki Smith • Billy Sullivan • Marc Swanson • Barbara Takenaga • Christopher Tanner • Steed Taylor • Adrian Tomine • George Towne • Scott Treleaven • Penelope Umbrico • Bill Viola • Don Voisine • Mark Wagner • John Waters • Chuck Webster • William Wegman • Lawrence Weiner • Rob Wynne • Lynne Yamamoto • Carrie Yamaoka • Frank Yamrus and MORE!

All proceeds benefit programs of Visual AIDS. Visual AIDS utilizes the art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists and preserving a legacy - because AIDS IS NOT OVER. www.visualAIDS.org

Dancers Respond to AIDS event

2009-12-21T14:46:00-05:00

DANCE FROM THE HEART | MEN

Monday, January 11, 2010 | Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Cedar Lake Theater, New York City
6:30PM $30 performance only
8:30PM $75 includes post-performance cocktail reception with cast
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

Don’t miss Marcelo Gomes along with 50 of the hottest male dancers from the worlds of ballet, modern, contemporary, tap, jazz and Broadway up close and personal. DANCE FROM THE HEART | MEN - 20 dance companies, four unique performances, two days at the intimate Cedar Lake Theater in Chelsea’s gallery district produced by and benefiting Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS. For more information, click here.

Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image

2009-12-10T16:34:00-05:00

Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image

In Reframing Bodies, Roger Hallas illuminates the capacities of film and video to bear witness to the cultural, political, and psychological imperatives of the AIDS crisis. He explains how queer films and videos made in response to the AIDS epidemics in North America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa challenge longstanding assumptions about both historical trauma and the politics of gay visibility. Drawing on a wide range of works, including activist tapes, found footage films, autobiographical videos, documentary portraits, museum installations, and even film musicals, Hallas reveals how such “queer AIDS media” simultaneously express both immediacy and historical consciousness. Queer AIDS media are neither mere ideological critiques of the dominant media representation of homosexuality and AIDS nor corrective attempts to produce “positive images” of people living with HIV/AIDS. Rather, they perform complex, mediated acts of bearing witness to the individual and collective trauma of AIDS.

Challenging the entrenched media politics of who gets to speak, how, and to whom, Hallas offers a bold reconsideration of the intersubjective relations that connect filmmakers, subjects, and viewers. He explains how queer testimony reframes AIDS witnesses and their speech through its striking combination of direct address and aesthetic experimentation. In addition, Hallas engages recent historical changes and media transformations that have not only displaced queer AIDS media from activism to the archive, but also created new witnessing dynamics through the logics of the database and the remix. Reframing Bodies provides new insight into the work of Gregg Bordowitz, John Greyson, Derek Jarman, Matthias Müller, and Marlon Riggs, and offers critical consideration of important but often overlooked filmmakers, including Jim Hubbard, Jack Lewis, and Stuart Marshall.

Roger Hallas is an assistant professor of English at Syracuse University. He is a co-editor of The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory, and Visual Culture.

Fig Trees by John Greyson at Cinemarosa

2009-12-09T13:43:24-05:00

Nelson Santos

MyMethLife.org

2009-12-07T17:03:00-05:00

Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) launch www.MyMethLife.org

A website for crystal meth users who are at an increased risk of HIV and to help stop the spread of HIV and AIDS in this underserved community. The site offers harm reduction tips, videos of meth users sharing their stories and open forums.

Seeing as Believing: Phosphene Visions

2009-12-05T18:23:00-05:00

Seeing as Believing: Phosphene Visions
by Guest Curator Kóan Jeff Baysa M.D.

December 5th, 2009 - January 24th, 2010
Preview Party: Thursday, December 10th, 2009, 7-8 pm
2nd Saturday Reception: December 12th, 2009, 6-9 pm

Axis Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition that brings together issues of consciousness, neuroscience, and perception by examining the phosphene: the perception of light in the absence of light entering the eye. Works included are those that address this entoptic (within the eye) phenomenon and expanded criteria on literal, metaphorical, and lyrical levels through paintings, drawings, videos, sculptures, and photo-based works. Axis Gallery is located at 1517 19th Street, Sacramento, CA

Michael Lownie: Big Boy Toys

2009-12-04T17:09:00-05:00

Michael Lownie

Big Boy Toys

Magnet
4122 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94114

Thru December 2009
Reception December 4, 2009. 8:00-10:00 pm

Read SF Bay Times Interview here

Jerry Lee Frost: Exhibition

2009-12-03T16:54:00-05:00

Jerry Lee Frost

December1, 2009 -January 31, 2010

Reception: December 3, 5-7PM

Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California
Gallery Room
The Hobart Building –Main Floor
582 Market Street at Montgomery
San Francisco, Ca. 94104
www.varietvnc.org

Proceeds benefit the Children’s Charity

David Humphrey - Blind Handshake book signing

2009-12-03T16:38:24-05:00

A book signing and release party for David Humphrey’s Blind Handshake, a selected anthology of art writing, will be take place at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

Wednesday, December 16th, 6 – 8 PM
Short reading at 7

David Humphrey is an artist, curator and writer. He curated the Visual AIDS web gallery, Nineteen Penises, in February 2006, which is excepted in the book. Blind Handshake is published by Periscope Publishing and distributed by Prestel. Includes an introduction by Alexi Worth and Chris Kraus.The book is available at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

Martin Wong at P.P.O.W.

2009-12-03T16:12:47-05:00

Martin Wong
Everything Must Go

Curated by Adam Putnam

December 10 - January 30

Opening Reception: December 10, 6-8 PM

P.P.O.W.
511 West 25th Street, Room 301
New York, NY 10001

P•P•O•W is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by Martin Wong, curated by Adam Putnam. Martin Wong, who died in 1999 due to an AIDS related illness, was born in 1946 in Portland, Oregon and moved to New York City in 1978. He received a degree in ceramics, but decided to become a painter when he was thirty years old. He first started exhibiting at the Semaphore Gallery in New York. Martin Wong’s last exhibition at P•P•O•W was in 2000. (Continue Reading Press Release, click here)

The exhibition is accompanied by a full color illustrated catalog with an essay by Carlo McCormick.

Visual AIDS: World AIDS Day / Day With(out) Art Events

2009-12-01T00:01:00-05:00

Please join Visual AIDS tonight to remember World AIDS Day at the opening of:

You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real): The Work of Robert Blanchon

The Fales Library & Special Collection
@ Bobst Library, New York University
70 Washington Square South, Third Floor, New York

December 1 from 6:30 – 8:30 PM

Robert Blanchon (1965-1999) died at a moment of increasing exhibition opportunities and growing critical acclaim, leaving unachieved and for years unviewed, most of his oeuvre. But he was feverishly productive in his condensed life span and left behind a body of work with unusually lucid themes, possibly foreseeing that, only after his death, his works would finally be seen together. It is important to note that he spent his entire creative life with AIDS.

Event schedule and details HERE

Web Gallery: The Art of Hugh Steers, curated by Scott Hunt

2009-12-01T00:01:00-05:00

In conjunction with World AIDS Day, Visual AIDS presents the on-line exhibition That Soft Glow of Brutality: The Art of Hugh Steers, curated by Scott Hunt.

From the Curators’ Statement:
Have you ever had a person in your life who, though on the farthest edges of your social universe, manages to unknowingly exert a tremendous pull on your imagination? The figurative painter, Hugh Steers, who died of AIDS in 1995, was one of those people for me. (read more here)

Biography:
Scott Hunt is a figurative artist whose discipline is works on paper, specifically charcoal and pastel drawings. He is represented by Goff + Rosenthal. His work has also been included in several group shows, most recently at Wartburg College in Iowa (October 2009), as well as at Cream Contemporary in Berlin (through January 16, 2010) with the artists Cornelia Renz and Joe Biel. He is a recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and a grant from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. His work is included in many private international collections and is part of the permanent collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Mr. Hunt is proud and grateful to have his work preserved as part of the Frank Moore Archive Project. He lives in Manhattan with his partner, David Schachter

From the New York Times obituary, Saturday, March 4, 1995
Hugh Auchincloss Steers, a figurative painter, died on March 1 (1995) at the home of his cousin, Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr. He was 32 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was AIDS, said his dealer, Richard Anderson.

Mr. Steers, who was born in Washington and studied at Yale University, painted in a style that mixed dreamlike allegory with Expressionist-tinged realism and incorporated art history references. In the last five years his work had increasingly dealt with AIDS. Many of his paintings showed single male figures, almost nude or in women's clothes, isolated in dark rooms; others depicted pairs of men bathing and dressing each other or embracing.In his last works, shown at the Richard Anderson Gallery in the fall, Mr. Steers included a recurrent male figure that he regarded as a self-portrait. Dressed in a white hospital gown and white high heels, the figure entered the lives of other characters as both an avenging and a guardian angel. His work is in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Denver Art Museum.

He is survived by his mother, Nina Auchincloss Straight, and his stepfather, Michael Straight, both of Washington, and by two brothers, Burr, of Los Angeles, and Ivan, of Manhattan.

image: Hugh Steers, Breathing, 1987, Oil on paper. Courtesy of the Estate of Hugh Steers

I Talk About HIV/AIDS Because...

2009-12-01T00:01:00-05:00

Visual AIDS will be participating in the New York City Council’s “I Talk About HIV/AIDS Because...” campaign for World AIDS Day.

The New York City Council, together with HIV/AIDS organizations across the five boroughs, has launched a YouTube-based HIV/AIDS awareness campaign that will continue until World AIDS Day, December 1st, 2010. Why talk about HIV/AIDS to the people in your life? We know that open and honest conversations can prevent new HIV infections and reduce the stigma attached to people living with HIV/AIDS. And because every 9 minutes an American is infected with HIV, we need to educate ourselves and others about the virus. Join the conversation. Share why you talk about HIV/AIDS to the people in your life and why this is important to you. Visit http://youtube.com/italkbecause to see more videos and to find out how to start the conversation.

Adrian Kellard at MOCRA for Day With(out) Art

2009-12-01T00:00:00-05:00

MOCRA observes the twentieth anniversary of Day With(out) Art, a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis, by exhibiting The Promise, an important work by the late New York artist Adrian Kellard.

The Promise will remain on display through December 13, 2009.

Adrian Kellard was a rising artist in the 1980s. His large-scale carved wood block panels evoke both medieval shrines and the woodblock prints of 20th-century German Expressionists, but their bright colors and folksy quality make them accessible to a wide range of audiences. For Day With(out) Art MOCRA will feature one of his last works, titled The Promise, which references the legend of St. Christopher, who carried the infant Jesus across a turbulent river. Kellard depicts himself in the role of St. Christopher. The Promise asserts the possibility of hope and compassion in the midst of suffering.

The Promise was included in the 1992-93 international traveling exhibition From Media to Metaphor: Art about AIDS, and in the 1994 exhibition Art’s Lament: Creativity in the Face of Death (organized by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston). Kellard’s own life was cut short by AIDS. He died in the fall of 1991 at the age of 32.

MOCRA
Saint Louis University
3700 West Pine Mall Blvd, St. Louis, Missouri

World AIDS Day Exhibition @ CAMP Rehoboth

2009-12-01T00:00:00-05:00

The CAMP safe recognizes World AIDS Day with an exhibition by Derek Jackson, Greg Mitchell, Richard Renaldi and George Towne, plus a video slide show of the Visual AIDS Archive Project. Exhibition runs thru December 11, 2009. Reception is Dec. 1 from 4:30-6:00 PM.

CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Avenue, DE

images (Top to Bottom): Greg Mitchell, Richard Renaldi, Derek Jackson, George Towne and Visual AIDS video.