The powerHouse Arena and OUT magazine are co-sponsoring an exhibit entitled ‘The Male Gaze’ from April 20, 2007 through May 27, 2007. The exhibit will be located at powerHouse Arena (home to powerHouse Books) at 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201. (The gallery space is located in DUMBO at the corner of Water and Main Streets.) The exhibit will run from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. daily (11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on weekends).
‘The Male Gaze’ is a group showing of works by over twenty influential artists showcasing the ever evolving concept of masculinity, homosexuality and the portrayal of men in their world and media. From sullen burger boys to the effete congnocenti, ‘The Male Gaze’ chronicals the cultural explosion of masculinity over the past 100 years in provocative images, installations and artworks.
Among the artists whose works are represented:
Stephen Andrews: a Toronto-based multimedia artist;
Gio Black Peter: (born Giovanni Andrade) an illegal immigrant from Guatemala whose artworks and music incorporate the outsider experience;
James Bidgood: a revolutionary artist whose film ‘Pink Narcissus’ is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of gay cinema;
AA Bronson: a member of the artist group General Idea, founder of Art Metropole and the director of Printed Matter whose works have been included in countless exhibitions worldwide;
Raymond Carrance: (1921–1998) a photographer and illustrator working in the 1950s-’60s about whom little is known; his first book will be published in Spring 2007 by Antinous Press;
Robert Filippini: a New York–based artist working in various media including text, video, painting, and installation;
Andrew Harwood: a Toronto-based multimedia artist who explores symbols within the biker and trucker culture;
Christian Holstad: one of today’s most celebrated young artists whose work has been exhibited at and is included in the permanent collections of the foremost art institutions in the world;
Scott Hug and Michael Magnan: an internationally-exhibited art duo; Hug is also a curator and the founder of K48 and Magnan is also the founder of Do Not Provoke Us;
Brian Kenny: a New York-based multimedia artist, urban wigger, and half of art duo SUPERM;
Bruce LaBruce: a Toronto-based filmmaker, writer, photographer, and agent provocateur whose oeuvre is known around the world;
Qing Liu: makes photography, text work, drawings, videos, and sculptural installations that navigate political and cultural structures;
Ryan McGinley: a New York-based photographer and is the youngest person to ever have had a solo show at the Whitney;
Futoshi Miyagi: whose body of work includes sculptures, photographs, books, and other objects, and is concerned with ideas of selfhood and national and sexual identity;
Slava Mogutin: a widely published and exhibited author and artist; his book ‘Lost Boys’ (powerHouse Books, 2006) sold out in about a week;
j. morrison: a Brooklyn-based artist and designer who is widely exhibited and has designed work for Xiu Xiu, Phiiliip, and others;
Will Munro: a Toronto-based installation artist and promoter who has been exhibited extensively in commercial and artist-run galleries;
Joe Ovelman: well known for his rogue guerrilla aesthetic, which has appeared in site-specific installations at construction sites in SoHo, Chelsea, and Times Square;
Paul P.: a young painter whose book ‘Nonchaloir’ will be published in May 2007 by Aschenbach/powerHouse Books
Jack Pierson: represented by more than a dozen galleries around the world and has exhibited at or is in the collections of most of the world’s major art institutions;
Ezra Rubin: a Brooklyn-based artist and musician who performs under the name Kingdom;
Paul Mpagi Sepuya: his frank, intimate photographs of friends and related artworks have been widely exhibited, and he is also known for his series of portrait-zines entitled SHOOT;
Lionel Smartly: a New York-based artist who works in various media;
Wilhelm von Gloeden: (1856–1931) published and exhibited work with lucid homoerotic implications during a time synonymous with homophobia;
The exhibition’s opening fête will feature music from DJs KINGDOM, Tommy Hottpants and Milksop. Libations are available courtesy of Christiana Vodka. If you plan on attending, you are asked to kindly RSVP to either: malegaze@powerhousebooks.com or 212.604.9074 x115.
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I certainly would like to attend the event on the 20th. I have been over the years been photographic publications by Roy Blakey (HE) and George Hester’s (MAN and WOMAN). Vito Tomasello one of the best portrait artist of his time did a semi life size standing nude of me in pastel which I own. I am an actor and have performed throughout the U.S. Canada with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and in England… I am not sure if there is a requirement for an invitation..thank you, Craig Dudley
i see you’ve mentioned slava mougtin! his work is great. his highly sexualised installation and photographic works are a paradox. at once they are challenging to the feminised concept of the gay man present in the social psyche, yet subtle features, expressions, clothing and props continually reinvent and reinvigorate the fem nature of gay boys. his installation and photographic work effortlessly obliterates sex/gender stereotypes, to present new, masculinised and hyper-masculinised portrayals of mid-20s gay men.
see my commentary here