The exceptionally talented queer artist David Wojanarowicz’s name may not easily trip off one’s tongue but his place in the echelons of queer culture is one that is totally assured. , He died of AIDS in  1992 just 37 years old, but the impact of his work is still so powerfully relevant today.

A new exhibition at PPOW Gallery in New York, Dear Jean Pierre, displays previously unseen letters sent by Wojnarowicz to his Parisian lover Jean Pierre Delage between the years of 1979-1982, alongside sketches and photographs – one photo of a shirtless Jean Pierre holding a flower has a hint of Robert Mapplethorpe to it, while images of David at the infamous Hudson River ‘art pier’ and early Arthur Rimbaud in New York prints show a young artist coming into his own. 

Dear Jean Pierre: The David Wojnarowicz Correspondence with Jean Pierre Delage, 1979-1982

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