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Friday, April 7, 2017

WOW.. 12 friends were awarded Guggenheim Fellows ..Please..le me introduce them to you

WOW! I want to post some GOOD news. I NEED to post some GOOD news, .on this dark day politically. The Guggenheim Fellows have been announced! Artists are our flashlight out of the tunnel of darkness as the DTs turn off all the lights in the rooms of hope This morning I learned of Hunter Reynolds becoming a Guggenheim Fellow,,,,
I am so proud of my friend and soul buddy HUNTER REYNOLDS for being awarded a GUGGENHEIM this year. An artist of profound vision and a will to live despite everything possible that would say no .. I treasure his friendship and literally stand in front of his work and find myself falling into a swoon intoxicated by the sheer mesh of beauty and the reality check of history that covers his canvases

CONGRATULATIONS HUNTER... I hope you will be up to joining us again this year when the GAY LIBERATION FRONT marches (or rides we are fundraising to get a mini-bus to carry some of our people )

Please click on the announcement link ...and you will see a slide show of SOME of Hunter's work...

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Hunter Reynolds

Hunter Reynolds is a visual artist and AIDS activist. He received his BFA in 1984 from Otis College of Art in Los Angeles where he was a part of the downtown art scene and formed his first performance…

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and when I went to see who else was so awarded for their work I saw other friends and fellow travelers I am thrilled to see my friends so honored and in this economy, this will mean a HUGE change in their day to day life as in giving some breathing room
so please join me in say WOW CONGRATULATIONS

Please click on the announcement link ...and you will learn of each artist work

Mx CASSILS: in a tradition that is a bit Abromowitz and a little Lisa Lyon Cassils uses her body as a template of ideas and practice

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/cassils/

HARRY DODGE: visual artist and wordsmith that won at sundance and walked away

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/harry-dodge/

MASHA GESSEN: a thinker whose books I rush to read

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/masha-gessen/

Mx Keith Hennessy: We met in a class we were taking in SF with Anna Halprin

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/keith-hennessy/

Shelly Hirsch is being rewarded for a vocal instrument that is unlike any other

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/shelley-hirsch/

Kirsten Johnson: A film shooter extraordinaire as well as a documentary director .. and a most unusual mom

ttp://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/kirsten-johnson/

Mike Kuchar: master, indie low-budget, t wild narrative filmmaker

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/mike-kuchar/

Yvonne Meier: one can not speak of post-modern dance without thinking of Yvonne She took contact improvisation and made it into physical poetry

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/yvonne-meier/

Will Rawls Watching Will is like being in the Black Forest with only a full moon to light the sky.

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/will-rawls/

Carmelita Tropicana like a spitfire in the house of love Cuban-American Tropicana brings a celebration of both the body and the brain dressed in a physic comedy about very serious issues.

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/carmelita-tropicana/

Marianne Weems: Theater maker, the opposite of reality TV is Weems vision of life as seen on any kind of stage

\http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/marianne-weems/

Special shout out to Mx Keith Hennessy and Mx CASSILS for forward thinking gender free pronous

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Hunter Reynolds / Patina Du Prey's Memorial Dress

Today is World Aids Day.. a time to remember those lost, celebrate those living with Aids and HIV+ , endorse all methods of healing that brings hope to any individual, support the fight to heal the body and psychic and end AIDS, raise questions about interventions to keep people alive including the promotion of an intervention that undermines 50 years of women fighting for men to wear condoms and 30 years of ACT UP and Michael Callen founded People With AIDS Coalition generated safe sex education, A commitment to younger people to reveal in a personal way what the dark years of the AIDS pandemic did to the imagination, creativity and life choices of all of us alive who lived through it and in the fight to live today whether diagnosed or disease free, For me after 33 years of AIDS activism starting with the founding of Wipe Out AIDS/HEAL (1981) with my friend Gene Fedorko to today, I have finally gotten in touch with the repressed feelings of loss and powerlessness to save people I loved and others, it has been a year of becoming spontaneously weepy, coming out of nowhere and becoming conscious of individuals gone. Today I am conscious of not only commitment but also allowing grief to be felt. Doing so refreshes finding a path to finding hope and bringing continued commitment to truth telling and healthy life sustaining personal practice. Theory can always be debated but it should never prevent cooperation among activist in a commitment to saving life my own and others,

Throughout the day I will be posting WORLD AIDS DAY memorabilia starting with Hunter Reynolds, and artist and long term survival of AIDS iconic art piece Patina Du Prey's Memorial Dress that meshes activism and beauty and makes impossible not to see how each supports the other. Click on the image and go to his art piece .. In your face tragic and a beautiful expression of gay spirit, a queer manifestation of an artist's resistance and a personal commitment to life.

Monday, August 24, 2015

MARK YOUR CALENDARS.... September 10th 20115 Important cultural. political and artist Hunter Reynolds with an overview of his important work . DO not miss this one . I still have reeling in my memory bank his powerful history lesson taught in blood stain newsprint at Participant. He currently has a photo documentation of a roving performance piece dealing with gender expression at the peak of the AIDS crsis. It is a t the Bureau of General Services, Queer Dividison located inside the Center at 208b West 13 st NYC .