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| Cacy Forgenie, Untitled, 2012, photograph printed on Fuji archival paper. Edition of 10. Courtesy of the artist. |
Curated by Ivan Monforte
February 5 – May 7, 2014
Opening reception: Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 5:00 - 9:00PM
LONGWOOD ARTS PROJECT
Hostos
Community College
450 Grand
Concourse (at 149th Street)
Bronx, NY
GAY examines the cultural shift that has taken
place in identity within the last decade by looking at the production of gay
male artists of color from 2003-2013. Through painting, drawing, sculpture,
video, performance and text, the artists in the exhibition interrogate,
de-construct, embrace and celebrate the gay label. This show contains adult content.
Artists include: David Antonio Cruz, Jose Joaquin Figueroa, Cacy Forgenie,
Lawrence Graham-Brown, Imani Henry, Steve Locke, Rafael Melendez, Lucas Michael, Troy Michie, Netza Moreno, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, Carlo Quispe, Carlos Sandoval De Leon, Jacolby Satterwhite, Hector Silva, Rob Vassilarakis, Charlie Vázquez, Antonio Vicenty
and Dorian Wood.
About the Curator: Ivan Monforte was born in 1973 in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. He is the recipient
of a UCLA Arts Council Award, a fellowship to attend the Skowhegan School of
Painting and Sculpture, a Lambent Fellowship in the Arts from the Tides
Foundation and an Art Matters Foundation grant for research in Samoa. He
curated the exhibition I Never Meant to
Hurt You at Buzzer Thirty in 2006. Monforte currently resides and works in
Harlem where he maintains a studio practice and provides HIV prevention
education to gay, bisexual and transgender homeless and runaway adolescents.
