Calendar of queer art events, spring 2004

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.

2003 September 20-November 16 “Matthew Buckingham: a man of the crowd” - Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna http://www.mumok.at

2003 October 30-January 25, 2004 “Paradise Omeros” and “Baltimore” - film installations by Isaac Julien - ArtPace, 445 North Main St., San Antonio, TX 78205 http://www.artpace.org

2003 November 6-29 “Claudio Bravo: still life” - Marlborough Gallery, New York http://www.marlborough.com

2003 December 17-February 1, 2004 “Mama’s boy” - curated by Jane Harris - White Columns, 320 West 13th St., New York 10014 http://www.whitecolumns.org - artists: Chris Bors, Michael Coughlan, Anthony Goicolea, Larry Krone, Cary Leibowitz, Robert Melee, Jon Roulson, Michael Zansky

2003 December 17-February 17, 2004 “Gary Lee Boas: New York 1978-1985” - Galerie Kamel Mennour, 60 rue Mazarine, 75006 Paris http://www.galeriemennour.com - Mennour also published new book of his photos

2004 Janaury-February “S*x workers’ art show” - touring around the U.S.

2004 January 8-February 7 “Arnie Zane: photographs” - Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 West 21st St., New York 10011

2004 January 10-February 14 “Catherine Opie: surfers” - Regen Projects, 633 N. Almont Dr., Los Angeles 90069 http://www.regenprojects.com

2004 January 10-February 14 “Le cabinet des collages: Arnie Dicke, Angus Fairhurst, Christian Holstad, Yayoi Kasuma, and Martha Rosler” - D’Amelio Terras, 525 West 22nd St., New York 10011 http://www.damelioterras.com

2004 January 10-February 28 Collier Schorr - 303 Gallery, 525 West 22nd St., New York 10011 http://www.303gallery.com

2004 January 13-February 3 “The milky way and other fairy tales” - new works by Michael Petry - Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 137 Greene St., New York 10012 212-677-4520

2004 January 13-February 21 “The muse” - exploring inspired relationships from 1908 to the present - Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, 535 West 22nd St., New York 10011 http://www.tonkonow.com - artists included Paul Cadmus, Claude Cahun, Lyle Ashton Harris, Deborah Kass, Robert Mapplethorpe, Duane Michals, Collier Schorr, Andy Warhol, Bruce Weber

2004 January 16-February 21 “David Armstrong: your picture on my wall” - Matthew Marks Gallery, 523 West 24th St., New York 10011

2004 January 16-February 21 “Nayland Blake: reel around” - Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 West 22nd St., New York 10011

2004 through January 17 Karlheinz Weinberger: photographs - Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, 526 West 26th St., New York

2004 January 17-February 22 Collier Schorr - Modern Art, 10 Vyner St., London E2 9DG http://www.modernartinc.com

2004 January 18-February 8 “Golden nudes” - approximately 50 gold paintings, 1998-2004, by Rinaldo Hopf - Galerie Faubourg, Overtoom 426, 1054 JT Amsterdam http://www.faubourg.nl

2004 January 21-February 28 “George Platt Lynes: the known and the unknown” - John Stevenson Gallery, 338 West 23rd St., New York 10011 - exhibition included a wonderful collage with portrait in center surrounded by nude men and a wonderful photo of dancer Jacques d’Amboise in see-through gas station attendant costume http://www.johnstevenson-gallery.com

2004 January 23-February 21 “Catherine Opie: surfers” - Stephen Friedman Gallery, 25-28 Old Burlington St., London W1S 3AN http://www.stephenfriedman.com

2004 January 23-February 28 “On paper” - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, New York, NY 212-243-3335 - artists: D.L. Alvarez, Ryoko Aoki, Robert Barry, David Bowes, Chris Burden, Los Carpinteros, Shoshanna Dentz, Brion Gysin, Jacob El Hanani, George Kimmerling, Imi Knoebel, William Kentridge, David Korty, Anna Maria Maiolino, Hans Op De Beeck, Nicolas Rule, Robert Smithson, Billy Sullivan, Al Taylor, Marcel Van Eeden, Chris Vasell

2004 January 31-March 20 “Sunil Gupta: identity” - Sepia International, 148 West 24th St., New York 10011 http://www.sepia.org

2004 February “American archetypes” - curated by Marc Lepson - Visual AIDS Web Gallery - http://www.thebody.com/ visualaids/web_gallery/index.html - features the work of Robert Blanchon, Ronald Casanova, Joe DeHoyos, William Donovan, Sean Earley, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, W. Benjamin Incerti, Mike Parker, James Reich, Tseng Kwong Chi, Frederick Weston and David Wojnarowicz

2004 February 8-April 18 “John Waters: change of life” - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

2004 February 8-June 20 “Francis Bacon and the tradition of art” - Fondation Beyeler, Baselstr. 101, CH-4125 Riehen/Basel, Switzerland http://www.beyeler.com

2004 February 12-March 13 “D-L Alvarez: beausoleil” - Derek Eller Gallery, 526-30 West 25th St., New York 10001 http://www.derekeller.com

2004 February 13-March 13 “Bridge and tunnel” - works by Sheila Pepe - Susan Inglett Gallery, 535 W 22nd St., New York, NY 10011 info@inglettgallery.com 212-647-9111

2004 February 14-May 31 “Andy Warhol: the late work” - Museum Kunst Palast, Ehrenhof 4-5, Düsseldorf http://www.museum-kunst-palast.de

2004 February 18-March 27 “I love New York” - works by Sheila Pepe - Bernard Toale Gallery, 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02118 http://bernardtoalegallery.com

2004 February 21-March 12 George Towne: exhibit of portrait paintings - Delaware Arts Center Gallery, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY http://www.artsalliancesite.org/ - reviewed in River reporter by Jeane Bice

2004 February 21-April 25 “Yinka Shonibare” - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam - curated by Jaap Guldemond and Gabriele Mackert

2004 February 28-March 27 “Katarzyna Kozyra: non so più cosa son, cosa faccio ...” - Postmasters Gallery, 459 West 19th St., New York 10011 http://www.postmastersart.com - the back room was a complex of curtained rooms with, ahem, back room videos and drag queen dressing rooms

2004 February 28-April 3 “Willie Doherty: non-specific threat” - Alexander and Bonin, 132 Tenth Ave., New York 10011 http://www.alexanderandbonin.com - the artist is straight, the video hits with a curve (see N. Boston review listed below)

2004 February 29-April 10 “Out-sights: images from sapphic LA’s photography community” - ONE Gallery, 909 West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles - co-curated by Judy Sisneros and Kathleen Chapman - first annual photography showcase including works by Laura Aguilar, Jennifer Grant, Jenn Kolmel, Tracy Mostovoy, Stephanie Rogerson, Sheree Rose, and Meredyth Wilson

2004 March 2 Laurie Toby Edison talks about Familiar men - Bluestockings Bookstore, 124 Allen St., New York

2004 March 2-April 3 “Michael David: field paintings” - George Billis Gallery, 511 West 25th St., New York 10001 http://www.georgebillis.com

2004 March 4 “Duane Michals: celebrating 40 years of photography” - interviewed by Jonathan Weinberg - New School University, New York

2004 March 4 “Words can’t bring me down” - artist talk by Glenn Ligon - William L. Harkness Hall, Yale University, New Haven - sponsored by the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies

2004 March 4 Thelma Golden in virtual conversation with Glenn Ligon (who was at Yale, see above) - New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York

2004 March 4-April 17 “Hybrid: photographs by Dietmar Busse and Doris Mitsch” - ClampArt, 531 West 25th St., New York 10001 http://www.clampart.com

2004 March 5-April 10 “Flâneur in heat” - photos by David Armstrong - Galerie Kemel Mennour, 72 rue Mazarine, Paris http://www.galeriemennour.com

2004 March 5-April 23 “David Hockney: an intimate eye” - Richard Gray Gallery, New York http://richardgraygallery.com

2004 March 9-31 photos by Laurie Toby Edison - Chatterbox Gallery, 1185 Church St., San Francisco

2004 March 9-April 17 “Becoming men: portrait paintings of young men by Gilbert Lewis” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, 127-B Prince St., New York 10012 http://www.leslielohman.org

2004 March 11 Queer Photo Salon - hosted by Hormel GL Center, San Francisco Public Library - featuring Teri Claude Dowling, Torreya Cummings, and Peter Lippman

2004 March-12-April 12 “Donald Baechler: new work” - Baldwin Gallery, 209 S. Galena St., Aspen, CO 81511 http://www.baldwingallery.com

2004 opening March 13 “Christian Holstad: moving towards the light” - Daniel Reich Gallery, 537A West 23rd St., New York 10011 http://www.danielreichgallery.com

2004 March 13-April 10 “Catherine Opie: surfers” - Gorney Bravin + Lee, 534 West 26th St., New York 10001 http://www.gblgallery.com - reviewed in The New Yorker, Apr. 5, 2004, p. 18; short review by Vince Aletti in Village voice, Mar. 24-30, 2004, p. 86; reviewed by Farrah Karapetian in The Brooklyn rail, Apr. 2004, p. 11

2004 March 18-April 17 “Andy Warhol: kiku collages” - Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 Tenth Ave., New York 10001 http://www.paulkasmingallery.com - “kiku” is Japanese for chrysanthemum, the royal flower - accompanied by a fully illus. catalog

2004 spring “Harlem postcards, spring 2004: Nina Katchadourian, Glenn Ligon & William Pope L.” - Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th St., New York http://www.studiomuseum.org

2004 March 23-April 30 “Starstruck” - photos by Gary Lee Boas - Galeria Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain

2004 March 25-April 24 “Art history: photography references painting” - Yancey Richardson Gallery, 535 West 22nd St., New York 10011 - photographs of queer interest by David Hilliard, John O’Reilly, Alvin Booth, Yasamasa Morimura; some of the others were splendid too! http://www.yanceyrichardson.com

2004 March 27-April 24 “Edith Isaac-Rose: cronies” - Phyllis Kind Gallery, 136 Greene St., New York 212-925-1200 - Isaac-Rose is one of the older out lesbian artists (b. 1929) and showed at Betty Parsons Gallery; an Isaac-Rose painting was the last art Parsons bought before she died

2004 April “Particular insight” - web exhibition curated by Mark Hughes - Visual AIDS and The Body http://www.thebody.com/visualaids/web_gallery/index.html

2004 April 1-June 5 “Brian Orter: oarsmen” - Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art Gallery, 515 East 72nd St., Suite 26D, New York 10021 http://www.phhfineart.com

2004 April 2-3 “Queer performance in the Americas 1945-54” - conference featuring 12 speakers, Yale University - sponsored by the Larry Kramer Iniative for Lesbian and Gay Studies, organized by Jonathan D. Katz and Nick Salvato, cosponsored by the Program in American Studies, keynote by José Esteban Muñoz http://www.yale.edu/lesbiangay

2004 April 2-May 1 “Joe Ovelman: like a virgin” - Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, 504 West 22nd St., New York 10011 http://www.5begallery.com - reviewed by Holland Cotter in The New York times, Apr. 30, 2004, p. E33 - “Joe Ovelman’s multimedia work is an interesting addition to a continuing and entirely unsystematic redefinition of what gay means, or can mean, in contemporary art” - also reviewed by Vince Aletti in Village voice, Apr. 28-May 4, 2004, p. 88 - the work in the back gallery recreates the atmosphere of the Rambles in Central Park, New York - the notebook in the gallery listed several other Ovelman exhibitions over the past few years, some of which were not caught for this calendar

2004 April 3-May 1 “Twombly/Basquiat: works on paper” - Briggs Robinson Gallery, 527 West 29th St., New York 10001 http://briggsrobinson.com - this made for a very compelling contrast of tortured souls

2004 April 3-May 8 “No love” - a series of recent large-scale portraits and landscapes by New York-based Russian photographer Slava Mogutin - RareArt Properties, Inc., 521 West 26th St., New York 10001 http://www.rare-gallery.com - he’s hot; last year he only got the smaller back gallery

2004 April 8-24 “Men by men” - works by Etienne, Luger, Michael Kirwan, Marc DeBauch, and Kim Hanson - Art @ Large, 630 Ninth Avenue, New York 10036 http://www.artatlarge.com

2004 through April 10 “Nicole Eisenman: Elizaville” - Leo Koenig Inc., 249 Center St., New York 212-334-9255 - reviewed in The New Yorker, Apr. 5, 2004, p. 18

2004 April 10-May 15 “Forrest Bess, Alfred Jensen: the privilege of solitude” - Nielsen Gallery, 179 Newbury St., Boston 02116 http://www.nielsengallery.com

2004 April 17 “Accumulative effects: the psychology, aesthetic, and display of collections” - 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium - Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York http://www.bgc.bard.edu - papers included “Queer motivations: gender and desire in the art collecting of Margaret Mallory and Ala Story, 1941-1972” by Nancy Ann Arnold (UC Santa Barbara)

2004 April 20 “Shimon Attie: sites unseen” - artist talk - New York University

2004 April 21-May 29 “Robert Indiana: peace paintings” - Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 Tenth Avenue, New York 10001 http://www.paulkasmingallery.com

2004 April 22-27 “Patrick Webb: A Punchinio memoir, artivist film and art festival” - Egyptian Theater, Hollywood

2004 April 23-24 “Queer eye for the art historian: points of departure in art historical criticism” - Cornell University, History of Art and Archaeology, Annual Graduate Symposium - nine papers and keynote address by Douglas Crimp

2004 April 24 “Familiar men: a book of nudes/slide show and meet the models” - Laurie Toby Edison, author - Magnet, 4122 18th St., San Francisco http://www.candydarling.com/lte

2004 April 26-May 1 “”Pure: the works of David Hilliard and Ryan McGinley” - Sol Mednick Gallery & Gallery 1401, the University of the Arts, Philadelphia - part of Equality Forum: the Global GLBT Event

2004 April 27-June 4 “Ahora es el futuro/The future is now: contemporary Cuban artists, part I” - Show Walls, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York - presented by the Durst Organization with Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art PSCA - artists include Maria Elena González and Ernesto Pujol

2004 April 28-July 4 “Fred Wilson: objects and installations, 1979-2000” - Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th St., New York http://www.studiomuseum.org

2004 May 1-31 “Songs of the bright mirror” - works by Gary Walters - Portelli Gallery and Studio, Warkworth, Ontario

2004 May 1-31 “R.D. Riccoboni: California landscapes” - Gallery 4 Design, 3818 Bay St., San Diego, CA http://rdriccoboni.com

2004 May 2-June 4 “Unfettered and alive: photographs from Europe” - photos by Jean Sirius - Epic Arts Gallery, 1923 Ashby, Berkeley http://www.epicarts.org

2004 May 1-June 6 “Citizen queer” - Shedhalle Zürich - curated by Frederikke Hansen (Shedhalle), in collaboration with Sabina Baumann (Zürich), CHEAP Klub (Berlin), Emma Heddich (London), Sands Murray-Wassink (Amsterdam), Maura Reilly (New York) http://www.shedhalle.ch

2004 May 3-31 photographs by Bay Hall, a deaf queer photographer - Haven Coffeehouse, 3551 SE Division St., Portland, Oregon - on view, a series of black and white photos, color polaroids, family photos from the late 1800s, and photo greeting cards

2004 May 4-June 19 “Agnes Martin: recent paintings” - PaceWildenstein, 32 East 57th St., New York

2004 May 5 Queer Photo Salon, curated by Chloe Atkins - 6-8 p.m., hosted by the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Main Library in the Latino Hispanic Community Meeting Room - presenting the works of Heather Rowley, Jordy Jones and Brett Kaufman

2004 May 6-August 29 “Jean Cocteau: universal creator = Jean Cocteau: créateur universel” - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec

2004 through May 8 “Likeness: portraits of artists by other artists” - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco - artists by artists mentioned in review: Louise Bourgeois, by Mapplethorpe; David Hockney, by Elizabeth Peyton; Cindy Sherman as Liza Minnelli, by Deborah Kass; AA Bronson, by Bruce LaBruce

2004 May 10-June 30 “Art B4 (before) 21” - a national art contest and exhibition open to artists under 21, sponsored by the Billy Heekin Annual Memorial Art Exhibition - GLBT Center, New York http://www.gaycenter.org

2004 May 11-12 “Queer locations: race, space, and sexuality” - conference at Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine - panels: queer art, archive, diaspora, space

2004 May 13-June 19 “Andy Warhol: red books” - Pace/MacGill, 32 E. 57th St., New York - previously unexhibited albums of carefully sequenced Polaroids

2004 May 14-July 11 “Hidden histories” - works by Sunil Gupta, Eric Rhein, David Wojnarowicz and others - New Art Gallery, Walsall, England

2004 May 14-September 5 “Yinka Shonibare” - Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna - curated by Jaap Guldemond and Gabriele Mackert

2004 through May 15 “Sunil Gupta: tales of a city” - Centre for the Arts, Dorset, England

2004 May 18-June 26 “Secret sex: unknown erotic drawings of Bob Ziering” - also in the smaller galleries: “Caught in the act: an installation of images by Brian Riley” and “Recent gifts from the Len Paoletti collection” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, 127-B Prince St., New York 10012 http://www.leslielohman.org

2004 May 20-23 NYC Erotic Art Fair - presented by Tom of Finland Foundation, with reception at Leslie-Lohman and panel discussion on collecting erotic art - LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St., New York - $10 admission http://www.TomOfFinlandFoundation.com

2004 through May 22 “Homelands” - works by Sunil Gupta - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Canada http://www.bulgergallery.com

2004 June National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco - http://www.queerculturalcenter.org

2004 June 3 Queer Photo Salon, curated by Chloe Atkins, hosted by Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library - featuring work by Javier Manrique, Elizabeth Stephens and Chloe Atkins

2004 June 4 through summer “The damaged book project” - Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe - spin-off from “Reversing vandalism” (see review by Richard Meyer of original exhibition at San Francisco Public Library, in this issue)

2004 June 6-30 “Fresh meat in the gallery” - trans/gender mixed-media art show - ODC Theater Gallery, San Francisco - part of the National Queer Arts Festival

2004 through June 7 “Arcadia and metropolis” - Neue Galerie, New York - includes “Cut with kitchen knife” by bisexual Hannah Höch - reviewed by James Kalm in The Brooklyn rail, Apr. 2004, p. 10

2004 opening June 10 “Queer packaging/body commodities” - Works/San Jose, San Jose, Calif. - curated by David Duckworth (duckdiva@yahoo.com) - see also calls for participation in January issue of newsletter http://www.workssanjose.org

2004 opening June 12 “Spouses for life--a wedding album” - exhibition of the images and personal statements of gay couples who were married in San Francisco and across the U.S. - San Francisco LGBT Center and SomArts (South of Market Cultural Center) - sponsored by Bay Area Community of Women and Queer Cultural Center http://www.bacw.org http://www.queerculturalcenter.org

2004 June 13-September 12 “Andy Warhol: the late work” - Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

2004 June 17-19 “Fresh meat in the gallery” - annual transgender and queer performance cabaret - ODC Theater, San Francisco - part of the National Queer Arts Festival

2004 June 18-July 31 “Shack obscura” - installation by Harmony Hammond, Santa Fe

2004 June 21 “No secret anymore: the times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon” - film by Joan E. Biren (JEB) - broadcast premiere on the Sundance Channel, 10 p.m. (additional showings on June 24, 26, 28)

2004 opening June 27 Ryan McGinley - P.S. 1, New York

2004 September solo exhibition of new paintings by Harmony Hammond - Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe

2004 October 2-January 9, 2005 “Andy Warhol: the late work” - Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm

2004 October 4-30 “Rendering gender” - curated by Cole Woodcox and Aaron Fine - University Art Gallery, Truman State University, Division of Fine Arts, 100 E. Normal, Kirksville, MO 63501

2004 November 9-December 18 “Marry me: a benefit exhibition and silent auction of lesbian art” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, 127-B Prince St., New York 10012 http://www.leslielohman.org

2005 January “Acting out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore” - organized by Tirza True Latimer - Berkeley Art Museum, University of California

2005 January 27-May 8 “Andy Warhol: the late work” - Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France

2005 August “Acting out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore” - Colby College, Maine

2005 October “Acting out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore” - Jersey Museum, Channel Islands


Queer Caucus for Art newsletter, May 2004
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