Mt-see fall exhibns om Miami to Melbourne explore a wi range of them cludg queer motherhood, Aofuturism, posive cency and gay history.
Contents:
- WHAT TOOK TO CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY ART MM
- NOT 'GAY ART,' BUT 'GOOD ART BY GAY ARTISTS': CULTURAL COUNCIL OPENS SHOW LAKE WORTH BEACH
- THE BIG GAY ART SHOW
- GAY BAR VS ART GALLERY: SHOULD QUEER EXHIBNS BE RECLAIMED BY LGBT+ VENU?
- "JT SAY GAY" ART EXHIBN
WHAT TOOK TO CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY ART MM
Charl Llie’s passnate half-century of homoerotic art llectg offers a mirror for the history of gay history self * gay art exhibition *
Barbara Kat'Only Tony': Portras by Gilbert LewisPennsylvania Amy of Fe Arts, PhilalphiaPhilalphia artist Gilbert Lewis is a longstandg fixture of the cy’s art muny, but his sensive portraure work has th far been unrexposed at lol mms, spe s importance the natnal lexin of gay male art. The "Queer Threads" exhibn, which ran early 2014, examed the diversy of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer experienc. Stanley Stellar / Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art.
From the stage of the Founrs’ Day celebratn of the Llie + Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, the octogenarian art llector addrsed the r crowd there to celebrate the upg expansn of the mm he tablished– a major tone that will double size the world’s first and only mm dited to gay art. But before discsg the future, Llie wanted to talk about the origs of his llectn of homoerotic work.
The rt, ed, was history: thoands of years of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr history, ignored and relegated to circumscribed footnot, if that. Or as the print of the mm’s board of directors, art historian Jonathan David Katz, puts , Llie “enpsulat the cultural tennci” of more than half a century of gay historic activism.
NOT 'GAY ART,' BUT 'GOOD ART BY GAY ARTISTS': CULTURAL COUNCIL OPENS SHOW LAKE WORTH BEACH
Available for viewg and acquisn: gay art drawgs, gay art patgs, and gay art photographs by ternatnally acclaimed artists. * gay art exhibition *
As did for many men of the time, Europe troduced Llie to a more open visn of gay life. Growg up a small town durg the Deprsn, Llie’s exposure to gayns as an inty was limed to what he uld glean om the encyclopedia. Aware of his own sexual sir om an early age, he left for Los Angel as soon as he uld, where he easily fell wh s sub rosa gay muny.
But was Europe that ma him realize there was such a thg as “gay history” – and that much of that history was only prerved art.
THE BIG GAY ART SHOW
"Jt Say Gay" art exhibn happeng at 600 Central Ave, 600 Central Avenue, Sarasota, Uned Stat on Thu May 12 2022 at 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm * gay art exhibition *
“We ma the disvery early on that we'd both been discreet llectors of gay imagery, ” Llie says. His rourc, bed wh Llie’s nnectns to the theater and art worlds, enabled them to amass a trove of gay art. But what, exactly, mak art gay?
“Charl [Llie] has always been fundamentally foced on the homoerotic, which he unrstands as the most dissint form of art makg, ” says Katz, “bee by fn has been historilly exclud.
Do that leave “gay art” the same nebulo I-know--when-I-see- tegory as pornography or obsceny?
GAY BAR VS ART GALLERY: SHOULD QUEER EXHIBNS BE RECLAIMED BY LGBT+ VENU?
In his ey, what mak a piece of art “gay” is the perspective and tentn of the artist. Neverthels, the time durg which Llie was first llectg, the vast majory of gay work was ma by gay artists.
"JT SAY GAY" ART EXHIBN
Many were gay, but kept that si of their art hidn. As he tells , three thgs happened the summer of 1969: Woodstock, the Stonewall Rebelln, and his first annual Exhibn of Homoerotic Art, which he held his Soho stud. Their hope was to sell explicly gay work (as opposed to work by gay artists tryg to mask their sexualy or create art for a straight dience), orr to prove “wasn’t potls to make.