The New York Cy stutn has been stmental showsg gay and lbian art sce 1969. Now, 's workg hard to be even more clive of margalized queer artists who create brilliant work.
Contents:
- HOW A SELF-TGHT ART CURATOR BEME A GAY RIGHTS CHAMPN
- GAY ART OM THE LLIE-LOHMAN PERMANENT LLECTN (SLI SHOW)
HOW A SELF-TGHT ART CURATOR BEME A GAY RIGHTS CHAMPN
‘I had no visn at all,’ said Charl W. Llie, who -found the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art 50 years ago. ‘It had to do wh some vague ncept of gay liberatn.’ * leslie lohman gay art foundation *
Our roots trace back to 1969, when Charl Llie and Frz Lohman held an exhib of gay artists for the first time their SoHo loft. Throughout the 1970s, they ntued to llect and exhib gay artists while supportg the SoHo art muny. This led to the formatn of the Llie-Lohman Gay Art Foundatn 1987.
Llie, who -found the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art 50 years ago. ‘It had to do wh some vague ncept of gay liberatn. Llie and his partner, Frz Lohman, were baskg the succs of their first homoerotic art show, which they had put together the month before their SoHo loft, when they got a phone ll om a iend.
”It was que the season for gay rights. ”In 2016, the gallery and foundatn, which had moved on om the uple’s loft years before, officially beme the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art. Llie spoke about his work as a curator, and what has changed culturally over the past 50 followg terview is an eded and nnsed versn of the Mm of Gay and Lbian ArtQ.
GAY ART OM THE LLIE-LOHMAN PERMANENT LLECTN (SLI SHOW)
* leslie lohman gay art foundation *
How has gay life New York changed sce Stonewall? Before Stonewall if you went to a gay bar they had dancg the basement. Many gay artists who worked homosexual ntexts had been nied venu all their liv.
The New York Cy stutn has been stmental showsg gay and lbian art sce 1969. Now, 's workg hard to be even more clive of margalized queer artists who create brilliant work. * leslie lohman gay art foundation *
Rs for The New York TimIn 50 years of beg a gallerist mted to gay and lbian art, what are you most surprised by? You had gay art and straight kids takg off the shackl of the Eisenhower years.
Everythg got surprisgly gay: art, mic, dance, theater. Gay art beme more AIDS-foced. We’d ll people and rm them if they found art they didn’t want bee of a homoerotic element we’d make them an offer, or take a tax ductn, and that rulted some gifts.
That we’ve rurrected some of the early work by artists who first attracted people, like Marn Pto, Delmas Howe, Sandra DeSando, John Burton Harter, Michela Griffo and Arthur Trs, bee we were not allowed to show anythg that was out of the was your visn regardg the importance of gay work?
"Organizatns like the Llie-Lohman Mm are rare our society," said O'Hanian a prs release. He looks forward to workg wh the board and staff to further the anizatn's advocy of gay and lbian artists and art while offerg "more thought-provokg exhibns." * leslie lohman gay art foundation *
It had to do wh some vague ncept of gay liberatn.
A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn MB, Page 5 of the New York edn wh the headle: 50 Years of Champng and Curatg Gay Art.