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Painted Love
George Towne
Michael Mut Gallery
97 Avenue C near 7th Street
Opening Reception: Wed., July 10th, 6-8pm
Contact: Michael Mut 212.677.7868
michael@michaelmutgallery.com
Hours: Wed–Fri 2–6PM, Sat noon–6PM some Sundays during the summer
“And you think love is to pray, but I’m sorry I don’t pray that way” – Marc Almond/Soft Cell
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show’s title, “Painted Love”, is a play on words alluding to the 1981
song “Tainted Love” sung by Soft Cell’s Marc Almond, which became a
well-known Anthem for the Gay Community with lyrics like “I give you all
a boy could give you”. The song also refers to ways of praying. For Towne, Painting has
allowed him to develop spirituality around his art making process; he
lights a candle that slowly burns as he works, and laying out his
palette of color has become a devotional act for him, much like
traditional prayer and meditation. The love of his process is carried
through into his subject matter
in Towne’s summer show at Michael Mut Gallery.
Touching Strangers
Richard Renaldi
Kickstarter Campaign
Since 2007, photographer Richard Renaldi
has worked on a series of photographs for which he asks complete
strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait.
Working on the street with a large format 8-by-10 view camera, Renaldi
encounters his subjects in towns and cities all over the United States. Be part of this project through kickstarter.
Just What Is It About Today's Homos that Makes Them So Different, So Appealing?
Joey Terrill
ONE Archives Gallery & Museum
626 North Roberston Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA
May 18 - August 25, 2013
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives presents Joey Terrill: Just What Is It About Today’s Homos That Makes Them So Different, So Appealing?,
a retrospective exhibition of work by Los Angeles-based queer Chicano
artist Joey Terrill covering five decades of the artist’s work including
paintings, drawings and artist publications. Rooted in a commitment to
social justice issues, Terrill’s work contests categories of Chicano and
queer art and identity, consistently blurring the line between art,
life, archive and activism. The works assembled in this exhibition point
to multiple concerns in the artist’s work such as raising queer and
Chicana/o consciousness, complicating forms of representation and
identity, and exploring personal histories. Read about the exhibition in HIV+ Magazine: Exhibition on Homos, Homeboys and HIV.
Party Picks
Jimmy DeSana
Salon 94 Bowery
243 Bowery
Party Picks brings together a selection of DeSana’s photography
from 1975 to 1987 that includes portraitsof a number of prominent
figures of the downtown New York art and music scene, as well as an
overview of his staged investigations of the limits of both photography
and the human body.DeSana is well known for his subtle, yet deeply incisive portraiture
that unearths the larger-than-life personalities of his sitters, a
wide-ranging group of downtown musicians, underground filmmakers, and
cultural icons such as William S. Burroughs, David Byrne, James Chance,
Debbie Harry, Jack Smith, Laurie Anderson, and Yoko Ono.DeSana’s images are both unnerving and seductive.
El Hombre De Los Zapatos Rojos
Carlos Vanegas
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A new book from photographer and writer Carlos Vanegas.
