Event Date
Tuesday, June 1 2010 : 6:00pm – Sunday, August 15, 2010 : 8:00pmLocation
The CenterDescription
View highlights from the Summer Exhibits
Campbell Soady Gallery presents Summer Exhibits: Tattoo, Walking the Block, and As We See ItExhibit showing from June 1, 2010 through August 15, 2010
Opening Reception, Thursday, June 3, 2010
6PM – 8PM, FREE
Walking the Block by Photographer Jo Ann Santangelo
The stark contrast between daytime’s boutique crowds, high-rise loft dwellers and up-scale restaurant clientele is apparent when the metal grates drop. Nighttime shifts Christopher Street into a real-life version of an isolated, fictional representation of New York in the 1970’s.
Christopher Street has been a focus in New York Metropolitan life for more than 40 years. It became iconic with the 1969 Stonewall Riots, and this year marks the 40th anniversary. These populations—GLBT youth and adults, prostitutes, drug dealers, and pier kids—are often seen as relic of city life, though they exist now, alongside the general public, on the same block. These lives have been marginalized, fictionalized, and criminalized by modern society. Every night, a family assembles in New York’s West Village. A community of faces—queer people—all walking the block. Faces lingering only long enough to be told by police to move along, shuffling through the night. Through a series of photographs, interviews, and ambient sound collections, this project is an in-depth look at Christopher Street’s infamous nightlife dwellers. Last year my camera and I were welcomed into this nighttime world like no other.
Tattoo curated by Kathleen Cullen and Chris Hanway
Over the past thirty years, tattooing has transformed from an ostensibly deviant practice to a popular cultural phenomenon. Once a defiant symbol of life at society’s margins, the tattoo is now seen by some as a sign of contemporary society’s head-on embrace of celebrity, commerciality, and homogeneity. Within the LGBT community, tattooing in the second and third quarters of the 20th centuries was mostly limited to leather men and so-called “radical lesbians”, whereas it is now it is almost commonplace, with 31% of LBGT people stating they have at least one tattoo.
The changing meanings and perception of tattoos have also become the subjects for an ever growing number of visual artists. When the imagery of the tattoo is isolated from the human canvas, or when the “tattooed” becomes the subject of art, the ink can become a distinct portrait of the subject, revealing identities, histories, ethnicities, personality quirks, fetishes, addictions, conquests, allegiances. This expansive show presents the tattoo and the tattooed within the realm of fine art, providing a vivid and expansive portrait of the culture of the tattoo.
Curated by Kathleen Cullen and Christopher Hanway, The Tattoo Show will include works by Max Snow, Catherine Opie, Tom of Finland, Araki, Alix Lambert, Jason Brooks, Lina Bertucci, Richard Renaldi, Larry Clark, Aaron Cobbett, Assume Vivid Astro-Focus, Herbert Hoffman, Paola Ferrario, Stephanie Tamez, Judy Linn, Mark Chamberlain, Thomas Hooper, Dr. Lakra, Jacki Randall, Matthew Weinstein, Patrick Lee, Victor Gadino and Kiki Smith, among others.
As We See It by The Center's NYC Photography Club
This exhibit features work by the members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center's NYC Photography Club. The Exhibit showcases a diversity of themes, styles and techniques. As We See It is curated by The Gay & Lesbian Photography Club
Price
FREEFor More Information
Yojani Hernandez, yhernandez@gaycenter.org, 212-620-7310
See Also
Room Locations for all events and meetings at the Center on Tuesday, June 1, 2010
