2002 February 9-May 5 “Beauford Delaney: the color yellow” - High Museum of Art, Atlanta
2002 Feburary 16-March 3 “Monster prints: Harmony Hammond” - SITE Santa Fe - large scale (5 x 10 ft) monotypes, with a gallery guide available from SITE Santa Fe. Reviewed by Paul Ivey in THE Magazine, April, 2002
2002 March 7 “Remembering Tchelitchew” - a conversation with Harold Stevenson (1929-) at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma
2002 spring “Possession obsession: objects from Andy Warhol’s personal collection” - Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
2002 through March 10 Pavel Tchelitchew - Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma
2002 April 2-May 4 “Doug Jeck: details” - Garth Clark Gallery (24 West 57th St., New York 10019) http://www.garthclark.com
2002 April 4-27 “Forrest Williams: interiors” - Heather Marx Gallery (77 Geary St., San Francisco) “Large, moody figurative canvases, very beautiful, very gay. NYC artist” (Tee Corinne)
2002 April 13-May 25 Harold Stevenson - Mitchell Algus Gallery (511 West 25th St., New York 10001 212-242-6242) New and early paintings, including the first showing in forty years of Stevenson’s historically important 1961 painting “The eye of Lightning Billy”
2002 April 13-June 15 “Jean-Michel Basquiat: warpaint” - Spike Gallery (547 West 20th St., New York 212-627-4100)
2002 April 16-May 18 “D-L Alvarez: the road to hell less traveled” - Derek Eller Gallery (526 West 25th St., New York 10001 212-206-6411)
2002 April 17-June 1 “Golden queers: 100 portraits” - work by Rinaldo Hopf - Movin’ Art Gallery (Linienstr. 161, 10115 Berlin-Mitte, Germany)
2002 April 20-June 1 “Harmony Hammond: dialogues and meditations” - HazMat Exhibition Space, Museum of Contemporary Art (191 East Toole Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701) http://www.moca-tucson.org Reviewed by Margaret Regan, “Flesh and blood” in Tucson weekly, May 8, 2002 and by John Villani in Arizona star, Apr. 18-24, 2002
2002 May 3-25 Theophilus Brown (1919-), Bay Area figurative artist (and Paul Wonner’s lover) - Freddie Fong Contemporary Art (760 Market St., San Francisco)
2002 May 4-July 14 “Straight to hell: 10 years of Dyke Action Machine” - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103) http://www.YerbaBuenaArts.org
2002 May 9-August 2 “Alfonso Ossorio, horror vacui: filling the void, a fifty year survey” - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (24 West 57th St., New York 10019) http://www.michaeloseenfeldart.com accompanied by catalog with essay by Helen Harrison, with companion exhibition at Ossorio Foundation, Southampton
2002 May 10-June 15 “Tom Burr: dog days” - Greene Naftali Gallery (526 West 26th St., New York 10001 212-463-7770)
2002 May 11-June 15 “Chimaera: Gaye Chan” - ARTSPEAK (233 Carrall St., Vancouver, BC V6B 2J2) http://www.artspeak.ca
2002 May 15-June 12 “Art of the portrait: fantasy, fetish, and celebrity” - works by Alfredo Cannata, Robert Appleton, Julio Chaile - Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art (86 Walker St., New York) http://www.artware-software.com/pcsa/
2002 May 18-August 19 “Larry Rivers: art and the artist” - Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
2002 May 19-June 16 “Migration atlas” - a project by George Kimmerling - P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center (22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y.)
2002 May 29-June 29 “Patrick Webb: Punchinello’s city” - CJG Projects International (135 West 29th St., New York 10001 212-695-8338)
2002 through May 30 “Andy Warhol: ‘Five deaths’ paintings” - Holm (17 E. 71st St., New York)
2002 May 30-September 1 “Alfonso Ossorio, horror vacui: filling the void, a fifty year survey” - Ossorio Foundation (164 Mariner Drive, Southampton, NY 11968) http://www.ossorio.org (see above for parallel exhibition at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City)
2002 June “Maureen Mullarkey: guise & dolls” - Rittenhouse Fine Art (1723 Spruce St., Philadelphia) http://www.rittenhousefineart.com
2002 June 1-August 10 “Keith Haring: tarps” - Van de Weghe Fine Art (521 West 23rd St., New York 10011) http://www.vdwfineart.com
2002 June 7-27 “Men of color: nudes at ease” - photographs by Laurie Toby Edison, co-curated by Jaime Cortez - SOMArts Gallery (934 Brannan St., San Francisco)
2002 June 7-July 26 Catherine Opie and others - Gorney Bravin + Lee (534 West 26th St., New York 10001) http://www.gblgallery.com
2002 June 8 “Whose gaze is it anyway?” - discussion Laurie Toby Edison and Maryann Luera - SomArts Gallery, San Francisco
2002 June 9 “Contested flesh: fags dissect the bawdy politic of body politics” - panelists: Rene Broussard, Pedro Bustos, Laurie Toby Edison, Elias Farajaje-Jones, Joel B. Tan - SomArts Gallery, San Francisco
2002 June 19-September 30 “The myth of Ganymede: before and after Michelangelo” - Casa Buonarroti, Florence
2002 June 8-July 28 “Frank Moore: green thumb in a dark Eden” - Orlando Museum of Art (2416 North Mills Avenue, Orlando, FL 32803 407-896-4231 http://www.OMArt.org (accompanied by 12-page brochure and traveling to Albright-Knox in February 2003) (Moore died in April 2002)
2002 June 20-July 28 “Tony Gray: the new black is black” - Debs & Co. (525 West 26th St., New York 10001) http://www.debsandco.com
2002 June 22-August 24 Lili Lakich “Heads” - Malibu Gallery (23823 W. Malibu Rd., Malibu, CA)
2002 June 27 “Life’s evening hour: a celebration of photographer John Dugdale” - preview screening by Thirteen/WNET New York at the LGBT Community Center, New York
2002 June 27-29 Tee Corinne in Portland, Oregon: book signing at In Other Words Bookstore; slide show at Portland State University; informal discussion with Kristan Aspen on “Oregon lesbian photography and music 1970-2000” at Touchstone Coffeehouse
2002 June 28-August 4 “Robert Rauschenberg from the collection of Terry Van Brunt: love letters” - San Francisco LGBT Community Center (1800 Market St.) Curated by Jonathan Katz; see the exhibition review on p. 2 of this newsletter
2002 July 2-August 16 “Something, anything” - organized by Nayland Blake - Matthew Marks Gallery (523 West 24th St., New York 10011 212-243-0200) - short review by Holland Cotter in New York times, July 19, 2002, p. E34
2002 July 3-26 “Star girls” from the series “Everything I know ... I learned at the movies” - Ann P. Meredith: new photography - SFMOMA Artists Gallery Building A (Fort Mason Center, San Francisco)
2002 July 10-September 15 “Beauford Delaney: the color yellow” - Studio Museum in Harlem, New York - a mix of portraits and abstracts, nicely interspersed, and very yellow
2002 July 13-January 5, 2003 “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco” - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (151 Third St., San Francisco, CA) http://www.sfmoma.org
2002 July 18 “Strap ‘em down: the world of drag kings” by Ann Meredith - screening at ATA, San Francisco, part of “Hot Pink” film/video screening by Lesbians in the Visual Arts
2002 July 19-October 13 “Possession obsession: objects from Andy Warhol’s personal collection” - Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI)
2002 August 10-October 20 “Personal and political: the women’s art movement, 1969-1975” - Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, N.Y. Curated by Simon Taylor and Nathalie Ng, with catalog available. Artists include Harmony Hammond, Louise Fishman, Kate Millett, Michelle Stuart and Barbara Hammer
2002 September 5-October 4 “Nancy Azara, memorial to spirit” - The Interchurch Center, Treasure Room Gallery (475 Riverside Drive at 120th St., New York 10115 212-870-2200)
2002 September 5-November 10 “Beyond Oscar Wilde: portraits of late-Victorian writers and artists frmo the Mark Samuels Lasner collection” - University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark http://www.museums.udel.edu
2002 September 6-27 Beth Racette “Without liberty and justice for all” - a sculptural installation examining the U.S. prison industry - Wisconsin Academy Gallery, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (1922 University Ave., Madison, WI 608-263-1692
2002 September 6-October 19 “Patricia Cronin: Memorial to a marriage” - Grand Arts (1819 Grand Boulevard, Kansas City, MO 816-421-6887)
2002 September 6-January 5, 2003 “Exposed: the Victorian nude” - Brooklyn Museum of Art
2002 September 8-29 “Fashion: Matthias Vriens and Alexei Hay” - The Project (427 West 126th St., New York) http://www.elproyecto.com
2002 September 13 “You must do your own thinking: Thomas Eakins’s credo, history’s demand” - lecture by Marc Simpson - 6 p.m. at Uris Center Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2002 September 17-October 26 “Warhol explicitly queer” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
2002 September 19 “Para-economies of desire: ‘dead’ technology and queer feminist practice” - lecture by Jill Casid and Maria DeGuzmán, Allcott Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2002 September 19-October 3 “Theft in the dolls’ house” - exhibition of works by Jill Casid and Maria DeGuzmán - John & June Allcott Gallery, Hanes Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2002 September 19-November 2 “Andy Warhol: oxidation and sex paintings” - Gagosian Gallery (980 Madison Avenue, New York 10021) http://www.gagosian.com
2002 September 20-February 9, 2003 “Judy Chicago: The dinner party” - Brooklyn Museum of Art (200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238) http://www.brooklynmuseum.org
2002 September 27 “Being obscene? A panel of pornographers? The fight to display the fully sexualized body in images and words, and the rich erotica that results” - panel discussion on the occasion of the opening of the “Discovering passions, evolving bodies” exhibitions (see next entry), Rainbow Room, LGBT Community Center, San Francisco, 6-8 pm, followed by reception - panelists will include Willie Walker of the GLBT Historical Society of Northern California, photographers Tom Bianchi and Tee Corinne, Susie Bright and Heather Findley of On our backs, Jack Fritscher and Robert Davolt of Drummer
2002 September 27-November 15 “Discovering passions, evolving bodies: queer periodicals between WW II and the World Wide Web” - “Discovering passions” at San Francisco Public Library, Hormel Center; “Evolving bodies” at GLBT Historical Society of Northern California, Gallery Space (973 Market St., San Francisco)
2002 October George Towne (painter and printmaker, and QCA member) - LGBT Community Center, New York
2002 October 3-26 “To kiss the spirits” - Artemisia Gallery, Chicago - Hollis Sigler Memorial Fund Exhibition, with works by Harmony Hammond and others
2002 October 8-13 National Preservation Conference of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Cleveland - reception for gays, lesbians and friends - Wednesday 8 p.m. http://www.nthpconference.org
2002 October 11-December 30 “Beauford Delaney: the color yellow” - Anacostia Museum and Center for African History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
2002 October 11-January 5, 2003 “Judy Chicago” - National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington http://www.nmwa.org
2002 October 22-January 5, 2003 “Tom Burr: Deep purple” - Whitney Museum of American Art, Sculpture Court, New York
2002 October 24 Richard Meyer will present a slide show based on his book Outlaw representation: censorship and homosexuality in twentieth-century American art published earlier this year by Oxford University Press. Among the artists he will discuss are Paul Cadmus, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, and Holly Hughes. This presentation is part of the “In our own write” series for emerging LGBT writers.
2002 November Francis Bacon - Marlborough Gallery (24 West 57th St., New York 10019) http://www.marlboroughgallery.com
2002 November 2 “First time in print!” - panel of pioneer publishers of queer periodicals, including Don Lucas, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, and Bob Ross (in conjunction with “Discovering passions, evolving bodies” exhibitions, see September 27th above)
2002 November 13-December 21 “Painting invitational” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
2002 November 14-16 “Queer visualities” - 1st International Conference on Queer Visual Culture - SUNY Stony Brook - call for papers in January 2002 issue of this newsletter - The conference, which will include a museum exhibition also called “Queer visualities,” and a curated evening of film and video work, brings together 26 scholars in two locales, Stony Brook’s Long Island campus (Thursday, the 14th) and Stony Brook Manhattan (15th and 16th). Space is limited and reservations absolutely necessary. AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE ALONG WITH THE RESERVATION NUMBER WILL BE SENT TO THE QUEERART LIST. http://christa.art.sunysb.edu/qvisualities/
2002 November 15 “An aesthetic of conscientious objection: Bloomsbury’s post-war interiors” - lecture at 4 p.m. by Christopher Reed, Lake Forest College, QCA member, at Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (1 East 78th St., New York)
2002 November 15-17 South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Baltimore - sessions include “Queer bodies, queer spaces” http://www.samla.org
2002 November 16 “The artist as activist” - a panel of four artists discussing the use of their art as an activist medium - presented in collaboration with The Crystal Quilt at Women’s Studio Center (Suite 216 Wills Art Deco Building, 43-01 21 St., Long Island City, NY 11101 718-361-5649 $10 registration fee)
2002 November 26 “Beyond the Biennial: the passion and politics behind the contemporary art scene” - panel discussion with AA Bronson, Grace Glueck and Robert Storr - New York Public Library (6:30 pm)
2003 January-April 12 “Marsden Hartley: American modernist” - Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.
2003 January-April “A change of mind: an Alzheimer’s portrait” - works by Joyce Culver - Albuquerque Museum (N.M.)
2003 February 1-April 20 “Frank Moore: green thumb in a dark Eden” - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo - originated at Orlando Museum of Art in June
2003 February 2-March 23 “Six women on top: Amos, Billops, Brodsky, Garrard, Pindell, Simmel” - Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, N.J. (Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Baird Center, 5 Mead St., South Orange 07079 973-378-7755 GOSO1@aol.com)
2003 February 8-May 4 “Beauford Delaney: the color yellow” - Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
2003 February 19-22 College Art Association Annual Conference, New York - sessions include “Beyond ‘the usual suspects’: expanding the queer canon” (sponsored by the Queer Caucus for Art; chaired by James Saslow) and “This, that, and the other thing: objects and visual culture” (sponsored by the Visual Culture Caucus; chaired by Sallie McCorkle)
2003 April 15-May 10 Daniel Heyman: prints and gouache paintings - 55 Mercer Gallery, New York
2003 June 14-August 30 “The homo museum” - Exit Art, New York http://www.exitart.org
N.B. Items are listed in the calendar even if they are now past; this is done in the interest of having a record of relevant art exhibitions, etc. If additional items are listed for a gallery, etc., full address information will appear only with the first item in the calendar.
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