Mixed Messages Exhibition

07/05/2016

https://www.visualaids.org/blog/detail/call-for-proposals-curator-for-art-aids-exhibition-for-visual-aids1

Visual AIDS invites curators to submit a proposal for our annual one-month exhibition, to take place in Summer/Fall 2017. Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not...

07/25/2011

Beautiful piece by Lester Strong in Art & Understanding magazine

Curator John Chaich and Visual aids team up together in the show mixed messages to remind us that apathy is no cure for aids by Lester Strong

06/29/2011

Thank you Ara Merjian and Artforum!

The online edition of Artforum International Magazine.

06/29/2011

Thank you TimeOut!

06/24/2011

Thank you Holland Cotter!

Words are at the core of the annual group show by Visual AIDS at La MaMa La Galleria.

06/17/2011

06/11/2011

POZ magazine captured the energy of the Mixed Messages opening and the insights of featured artists Fred Weston, Ivan Monforte, Cammi Climaco and David Reid along with curator John Chaich and Visual AIDS executive director Amy Sadao in this clip.

On June 2, Visual AIDS held the opening reception of its annual exhibition at La MaMa La Galleria in New York City.

06/04/2011

Thoughtful feature on Mixed Messages by Seth Clark Silberman in The Archive, the journal of the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation

06/04/2011

Thursday, June 2, 2011
6:00 - 8:00 PM

Curated by John Chaich for Visual AIDS, Mixed Messages: A(I)DS, Art + Words presents over forty text-based works reflecting reactions to and connections through HIV/AIDS across generations.

On view June 2-July 3, the exhibition pairs internationally renowned Felix Gonzalez-Torres, John Giorno, Glenn Ligon, Deborah Kass, Yoko Ono, Jack Pierson, Kay Rosen, David Wojnarowicz, and Rob Wynne with legendary artist-activists Gran Fury and General Idea alongside prints by cutting-edge graphic artists Anthony Burrill, Experimental Jetset, and James Joyce.

A diverse range of notable emerging talent also contribute to the mix of art, activism, and design, including: Robert Blanchon, Paul Chisholm, Cammi Climaco, Amanda Curreri, Craig Damrauer, Joe De Hoyos, Chloe Dzublio and T De Long, Avram Finkelstein, Nicholas Fraser, Andrew Graham, Leslie Hewitt, Nolan Hendrickson, James Jaxxa, Matt Keegan, Jayson Keeling, Amanda Keeley, KleinReid, Larry Krone, Lou Laurita, Rudy Lemcke, Liz Maugans, Sam McKinniss, Ivan Monforte, J. Morrison, Lucas Michael, Nightsweats & T-Cells, Christopher Pennock, Charlie Welch, and Frederick Weston.

From the bathroom walls to ceiling ducts, doorhandles to floor mats, the paintings, prints, sculptures, and installations will fully inhabit the space with messages juxtaposing public rhetoric with personal revelations.

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06/03/2011

Mixed Messages presents over forty text-based works by visual artists and designers whose reactions to and connections through HIV/AIDS reflect the contemporary moment’s tenor on the pandemic. From painting to print, sculpture and installation, the featured works juxtapose publicly intended messages

06/03/2011

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06/03/2011

Mixed Messages presents over forty text-based works by visual artists and designers whose reactions to and connections through HIV/AIDS reflect the contemporary moment’s tenor on the pandemic. From painting to print, sculpture and installation, the featured works juxtapose publicly intended messages