Frederick Weston: Fire Island Artist Residency Lecture Series

Visual AIDS partnered with the Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR) for an artist talk by Frederick Weston, who presented his work in conversation with Kyle Croft, Visual AIDS Programs Manager.

The Visual AIDS/FIAR lecture series brings Visual AIDS Artist+ Members to share their experience with the Fire Island community and the Fire Island Residency artists at the Cherry Grove Community House through a partnership with the Arts Project of Cherry Grove.

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Self taught, interdisciplinary artist Frederick Weston shared examples of his lifelong practice spanning drawing, collage, sculpture, photography, performance and creative writing culled from and inspired by his vast encyclopedic archive of images and ephemera related to fashion, the body, advertising, AIDS, and queer subjects.

Weston has been a Visual AIDS Artist Member since 1998. Born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Weston moved to New York to enter the world of art and fashion in the early 1970's. His work communicates the soul of a thoughtful man feeling his way through physical realities and representation in America.

Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR) is an organization founded in 2011 which brings lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer identifying emerging visual artists and poets to Fire Island, a place long-steeped in LGBTQ history, to create, commune, and contribute to the location's rich artistic history.