Queer Caucus for Art Newsletter, October 2006
CALENDAR OF
QUEER ART EVENTS


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. The editors welcome reviews of these or other LGBT art events and activities.

2005 September 21-October 29 “Elmgreen & Dragset: the brightness of our shady lives” - Galería Helga de Alvear, Doctor Fourquet 12, 28012 Madrid, Spain www.helgadealvear.net

2006 February 25-June 25 “John Bankston: locating desire” - Connections Gallery, De Young Museum, San Francisco www.thinker.org/deyoung/exhibitions/

2006 April 20-June 3 “Disturbing the peace” - Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 W. 20th St., New York - artists including Deborah Bright www.artnet.com/denisebibrofineart.html

2006 April 21-May 20 “Ivan Witenstein: infidelicious, U2, peace and other queer shit, bonding across lines of difference, the abortion of cool, grey Broadway, it’s a ghetto sound wave now!” - Derek Eller Gallery, 615 W. 27th St., New York www.derekeller.com

2006 May 4-July 31 “Robert Indiana: amor” - Paseo del Prado, Paseo de Recoletos, Madrid - “Love” on the streets of Madrid

2006 May 11-June 17 “Richard Hawkins” - Greene Naftali Gallery, 516 W. 26th St., New York www.greenenaftaligallery.com

2006 May 13-June 17 “Progress: real and imagined” - works by Nicole Eisenman - Leo Koenig, Inc., 545 W. 23rd St., New York www.leokoenig.com

2006 May 16-28 “Lovett/Codagnone: a monograph” - on the occasion of the publication - Printed Matter, 195 Tenth Ave., New York www.printedmatter.org

2006 May 20-August 13 “Wolfgang Tillmans” - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago www.mcachicago.com

2006 May 20-October 15 “Catherine Opie: Chicago/American cities” - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago www.mcachicago.com

2006 May 25-June 24 “Jeff Burton” - Casey Kaplan, 525 W. 21st St., New York www.caseykaplangallery.com

2006 May 25-June 24 “Tejal Shah: what are you?” - new video installation on the “pliable language of gender” - Thomas Erben Gallery, 526 W. 26th St., New York www.thomaserben.com

2006 May 29-August 11 “Just men: photographs by Michael Alago, Wilson Models & Joe Oppedisano” - LGBT Community Center, New York www.gaycenter.org

2006 June-July “Andy Warhol: flowers on paper” - Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Mirabellplatz 2, Salzburg, Austria www.ropac.net

2006 June 4-30 “Gay pride: the naked truth” - works by Art Group for Gay and Lesbian Artists - Pegasus, 119 E. 60th St., New York

2006 opening June 8 “Love grows free” - Gil + Moti living and working in Eric Dupont Gallery, 13 rue Chapon, Paris www.eric-dupont.com

2006 June 8-July 9 “Tom Burr: relapse” - Stuart Shave/Modern Art, 10 Vyner St., London E2 9DG www.stuartshavemodernart.com

2006 June 8-August 14 “The name of this show is not gay art now” - curated by Jack Pierson - Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 Tenth Ave., New York www.paulkasmingallery.com

2006 June 10-July 29 “Walter Pfeiffer: recent works” - Galerie Baumet Sultana, Paris www.galeriebaumetsultana.com

2006 June 10 ?-September 10 “Milosc i demokracja/Love and democracy” - Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland

2006 June 16-18 “Exposed: experiments in love, sex, death, art” - multi-media performance-art-theater-extravaganza by Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens - CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission St., San Francisco, part of National Queer Arts Festival

2006 June 16-July 7 “Miriam Hernández: meditation” - Delaware Arts Center Gallery, 37 main St., Narrowsburg, NY www.artsalliancesite.org

2006 June 20-August 4 “Francis Bacon: triptychs” - Gagosian Gallery, London

2006 June 22-July 30 “Nayland Blake: the expulsion from the garden” - FRED, 45 Vyner St., London E2 9DG www.fred-london.com

2006 June 23-August 4 “Aaron Krach: 100 New York mysteries” - DCKT Contemporary, 552 West 24th St., New York

2006 June 23-August 20 “Isaac Julien: True North, Fantôme Afrique” - Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover www.kestner.org

2006 June 23-September 9 “I was a sunbeam: eleven works on paper” - artists including Sheila Pepe - David Krut Projects, 526 W. 26th St., New York www.davidkrut.com

2006 June 27-September 15 “My gay eye” - works by Rinaldo Hopf - Galeria Carmen de la Guerra, Madrid

2006 June 29-August 12 “Two friends and so on” - artists including Sheila Pepe - Andrew Kreps Gallery, 525 W. 22nd St., New York www.andrewkreps.com

2006 June 29-September 16 “Galerie Daniel Buchholz at Metro Pictures” - Metro Pictures, 519 W. 24th St., New York www.metropicturesgallery.com

2006 June 30-September 17 “Subterranean monuments: Burckhardt, Johnson, Hujar, and the changing life of Bohemia in post-war Manhattan, an appreciation of the margins of the art world” - Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY fllac.vassar.edu

2006 July 9-January 7, 2007 “Still points of the turning world: SITE Santa Fe’s sixth international biennial” - Klaus Ottmann, curator - artists including Catherine Opie

2006 July 10-August 10 “Jim Bergesen: cut & uncut” - curated by Anaïs Borg-Marks - Brownson Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY www.mville.edu

2006 July 13 “The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar” - performance art by Jess Dobkin - Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto www.jessdobkin.com

2006 July 21-October 1 “Keeping score: Kate Bingaman, Anna (Oxygen) Huff, Joanne Kim: critical line” - ArtRod, 741 St. Helens, Tacoma, WA www.artrod.org

2006 July 28-30 “Flex your textiles” - selected by Travis Boyer and Ginger Brooks Takahashi - in a vacant apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - artists including Sheila Pepe

2006 through July 29 “Walter Pfeiffer: recent works” - Galerie Baurnet Sultana, 20 rue Saint Claude, 75003 Paris

2006 August 3-27 “Putting the ‘happy’ back into gay” - ABC Treehouse Gallery, Voetboogstraat 11, 1012XK Amsterdam, Netherlands - artists including Rinaldo Hopf, Gil, and others

2006 August 10-September 11 “Betty Parsons: a painting retrospective” - Spanierman Gallery at East Hampton www.spanierman.com

2006 fall “General Idea: editions, 1967-1996” - Contemporary Art Museum, University of Southern Florida, Tampa

2006 September “Venice” - photos by Bill Travis - Soho Photo Gallery, New York

2006 September 1-30 “Clean up America” - installation of hundreds of soap figurines and two large wall paintings by Daniel Heyman, taken from interviews of Iraqi former prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison in Bagdad, to coincide with Philadelphia Fringe Festival - Crane Building, 1400 N. American St., Philadelphia www.danielheyman.com

2006 September 7-30 “Menu: Garth Amundson, Pierre Gour” - Shift Collaborative Studio, Tashiro-Kaplan Building, 306 S. Washington, Seattle, WA www.shiftstudio.org

2006 September 7-October 10 “Ves Pitts: cabinet of earthly delights” - Christopher Henry Gallery, 550 W. 29th St., New York www.christopherhenrygallery.com

2006 September 7-October 14 “Gerald Davis: 1986” - John Connelly Presents, 625 W. 27th St., New York www.johnconnellypresents.com

2006 September 7-December 20 “Love in small change” - exhibition of photomontages by Pradeep Dalal - Art Collection, Mid Manhattan Library, New York Public Library, 455 Fifth Ave., New York www.nypl.org/branch/central/mml/art/artwall.html

2006 September 8-30 “Home premiere” - sponsored by Nederlands Fotomuseum and Gil & Moti HomeGallery - Rotterdam www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl

2006 September 11-November 26 “Love revealed: Simeon Solomon & the pre-Raphaelites” - Ben Uri Gallery, London Jewish Museum of Art

2006 September 14-October 28 “Chris Verene: Galesburg” - Alona Kagan Gallery, 540 W. 29th St., New York www.alonakagangallery.com

2006 September 19-October 17 “Unrealizable dreams” - photographs by Deborah Bright and Ivana George - Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas

2006 September 19-October 21 “Works from the permanent collection” - Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, 26 Wooster, New York

2006 September 25-November 3 “Eric Rhein: Uncle Lige’s sword” - LGBT Center, 208 W. 13th St., New York www.ericrhein.com

2006 September 28-January 21, 2007 “David Hockney: portraits” - National Portrait Gallery, London

2006 September 29-December 17 “Deviant bodies 2.0” - CEPA Gallery, 617 Main St., Buffalo, NY www.cepagallery.com

2006 September 29-December 30 “Catherine Opie: 1999 & In and around the house” - Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland

2006 September 30 “Waterboarding: last gasp for habeas corpus and the Geneva Convention” - performance by cultural historian David Duckworth and sculptor John Landino - Jonathan Shorr Gallery, 109 Crosby St., New York www.jonathanshorrgallery.com

2006 September 30-December 31 “Glenn Ligon” - Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

2006 October 4-January 8, 2007 “Robert Rauschenberg: combines” - Centre Pompidou, Paris

2006 October 12-January 21, 2007 “Girodet 1767-1824” - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

2006 October 18-22 “QueerID” - academic & art conference - Boise State University, Boise, Idaho www.queeridconference.org

2006 October 19-22 “Trans: visual culture conference” - University of Wisconsin, Madison - more info at www.visualculture.wisc.edu/Conference/ call.htm

2006 October 21-January 2007 “Labels” - photos by Bill Travis - Hormel Center, San Francisco Public Library

2006 October 25 “Entranced: beauties who would have inspired the Greek gods” - gala soirée, silent art auction and raffle to benefit the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation - at the foundation, 26 Wooster St., New York www.leslielohman.org

2006 October 26-December 9 works by Linda Stein - Flomenhaft Gallery, New York - opening reception, Nov. 2, 5-8 pm

2006 October 31-November 25 “Quoi que nous sayons: three Americans in France: Melissa Ferreira, Daniel Heyman, and Don Schule” - 55 Mercer Gallery, 55 Mercer St., New York (reception on Nov. 4, 5-7 pm) 212-226-8513

2006 November 7-December 21 “Bruce Nugent, Duncan Grant and Celso Castro” - Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, 26 Wooster St., New York www.leslielohman.org

2006 November 10-January 10, 2007 “Pierre et Gilles: un monde parfait” - Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 38 avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris www.denoirmont.com

2006 November 11-January 28, 2007 “The Downtown show: the New York art scene, 1974-1984” - Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

2007 through January “Acting out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore” - Frye Museum, Seattle (curated by Tirza True Latimer: we’re still hoping to find additional US venues; interested parties may contact ttlatimer@sbcglobal.net)

2007 January Harmony Hammond: solo exhibition - Sonnenschein Gallery, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Ill.

2007 January 4-February 17 works by Linda Stein - Nathan D. Rosen Museum, Boca Raton, Fla.

2007 January 27-April 22 “Glenn Ligon” - Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus

2007 February 4-April 29 “Robert Rauschenberg: combines” - Moderna Museet, Stockholm

2007 February 14-17 College Art Association - annual conference, New York City - see elsewhere in this issue and the next issue for caucus plans

2007 March 4-July 30 “WACK! art and the feminist revolution” - curated by Connie Butler - Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, then tours nationally, with catalog, including work by Harmony Hammond

2007 March 10-April 15 “Tergloba” - curated by Vagner Whitehead - Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Rochester, MI www.vagnerwhitehead.com/tergloba.htm

2007 opening October “Y que?: queer art made in Texas” - curated by Harmony Hammond - Lubbock, Texas - with catalog

2007 October 6-December 17 “Glenn Ligon” - Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc, Luxembourg

2007 November 12-January 2008 “Claiming space” - curated by Norma Broude and Mary Garrard, including works by Harmony Hammond - Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington - catalog to be published

2008 February 20-23 96th CAA Annual Conference in Dallas

2009 February 25-28 97th Annual Conference in Los Angeles

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MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS FOR 2007

It’s just about time to renew your membership in the Queer Caucus for Art. Renewal postcards will be sent soon. You can find a membership form in this issue or at artcataloging.net/glc/glcn.html

Mail your check to:
Susan Aberth
QCA Membership Coordinator
P.O. Box 518
Tivoli, NY 12583

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