Artist Statement – Gay Gaddis

Contents:

• CATEGORY:GAY MEN ART
• BROOKLYN ARTIST LOUIS FRATO IS DEPICTG GAY MALE SEX AND INTIMACY THE MORE CHILL GEN Z ERA OF PREP
• WHAT TOOK TO CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY ART MM

CATEGORY:GAY MEN ART

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Though not everyone embrac the pk triangle as a posive symbol of gay pri, the triangle and verted triangle have gone through untls variatns and rema popular. Like the rabow flag, the pk triangle is now an image found on pri badg, stickers, and t-shirts, and is a mon symbol ed to advertise gay-iendly events and activi.

In an era before the femist and gay liberatn movements, the sensatnalized imag on the books’ vers were often the only way for women to read about lbianism. Like other sleazy publitns of the 50s and 60s, gay pulp fictn vers showed a fantasy world full of absurd clichés, sctive pos, and mcular bare chts.

BROOKLYN ARTIST LOUIS FRATO IS DEPICTG GAY MALE SEX AND INTIMACY THE MORE CHILL GEN Z ERA OF PREP

Born New Jersey 1954, David Wojnarowicz endured an extremely abive fay life, stggled wh beg a gay youth and subsequently dropped out of high school by the age of 16. His art reflected that grief, anger, tratn and fear by drawg attentn to Amerin relig fundamentalism, nservatism, fear of the body, homophobia, enomic imperialism, all while raisg up the voic of margalized and stigmatized dividuals.

Unapologetic about his homosexualy, Warhol often produced erotic photography and male nus, and his work was heavily fluenced by gay unrground culture.

WHAT TOOK TO CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY ART MM

They are perhaps most famo for their image of three terracial upl (straight, gay and lbian) kissg above the ptn “Kissg Don’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do, ” as well as their work at the 1990 Venice Biennale where they juxtaposed two billboards: the image of the Pope wh a text about the church’s anti-safe-sex rhetoric; the other a two-foot-high erect penis wh texts about women and ndom e.

To someone (like this wrer) wh only a middlg knowledge of art, ’s hard not to immediately thk “gay Pisso” upon first seeg the patgs of Louis Frato, 27, the Brooklyn-based pater who’s gotten a lot of attentn om the art world recent years and jt fished up his send solo show, Morng, at New York Cy’s Sikkema Jenks & Co. Frato’s imag of hunky, furry, young gay men havg sex or lyg around, alone or together, are cidly non-naturalistic, boastg a lot of the Pissoque featur of mornism, such as body parts pated out of proportn or perspective, or broken up to cubistic ponents.

From his stud Bhwick, Brooklyn, Frato talked to TheBody about patg durg a panmic, about jt how “gay” (or not) he wants his work to be, and his relatnship to an olr generatn of queer artists who ma work durg the AIDS epimic. "Courty of Sikkema Jenks & I was thkg about how a gay artist like, say, Mapplethorpe wanted to take the most betiful photographs of flowers, so he wouldn’t get pegged as “jt” a gay artist. "Courty of Sikkema Jenks & So, I’m cur, how do you feel about a non–art expert like me lookg at your work and immediately thkg, “gay Pisso”?

I had a teacher llege, Ken Tisa, who liv here New York, who was showg me artists who were makg work then, and I thought, “This is my direct history or leage as a gay pater.

Summary of Queer ArtAny art that n be nsired "queer" refers to the re-appropriatn of the term the 1980s, when was snatched back om the homophob and opprsors to bee a powerful polil and celebratory term to scribe the experience of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex people. Sce the late 19th century, cultural and legal rpons to homosexualy have evolved, but was only the send half of the 20th century that many of the laws crimalizg homosexual acts were overturned. It wasn't until the late 20th century that homosexualy was no longer nsired a pathology by psychiatrists, and wasn't until the 21st century that marriage rights were granted to same-sex upl.

Key Ias & Acplishments Bee of the early crimalizatn of homosexual acts and the social stigma nnected to homosexualy, much Queer Art employs d visual language that would not aroe spicn among the general public but would allow those faiar wh the trop of the subculture to glean the hidn the rise of activism the wake of the Civil Rights protts and the AIDS epimic, Queer Art beme more ank and polil s subject matter, forcg the viewers to regnize queer culture and to unrsre the stutnal equi and hypocrisy that fueled Inty Polics surroundg Queer Art has sparked much bate, wh some artists embracg Inty Polics and other chewg as not important for their work. It was spired by late 19th-century photographs by Eadweard Muybridge of two men wrtlg, but here the tangled sheets atop the bed make the homosexual meang clear.