There is still a couple of weeks left to see the superb exhibit ART AFTER STONEWALL 1969-1989 at the Leslie Lohman Gallery in NY.
1969 is also the year that Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohman held an exhibit of gay artists for the first time in their SoHo loft. This would eventually evolve into the only dedicated art museum in the world to exhibit and preserve artwork that speaks about the LGBTQ experience.
This new Exhibit is the perfect way to continue celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, and in fact it is the first major exhibition to examine the impact of the LGBTQ civil-rights movement on the art world.
Much has been written on the impact of the LGBTQ movement on American society and yet almost 50 years after Stonewall, key artists and their works of art are little known. So the Exhibit includes over 150 works of art and related materials, and focuses on the work of openly LGBTQ artists like Vaginal Davis, Michela Griffo, Lyle Ashton Harris, David Hockney, Greer Lankton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie, and Andy Warhol, and considers as well the practices of such artists as Vito Acconci, Diane Arbus, Judy Chicago, and Barkley Hendricks in terms of their engagement with a newly emerging queer subculture.
Organized by the Columbus Museum of Art, it is curated by Jonathan Weinberg, with Tyler Cann, and Drew Sawyer.
ART AFTER STONEWALL, 1969-1989 April 24 – July 21 https://www.leslielohman.org/
