VISUAL AIDS WEB GALLERY

Looking Up Lyrics curated by Becca Albee

VISUAL AIDS WEB GALLERY at http://www.thebody.com/visualaids/web_gallery/index.html


Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. For February, Becca Albee curated the current on-line exhibition which features the artwork of Archive Members; Robert Blanchon, Vincent Cianni, Bruce Cratsley, Brent Nicholson Earle, Robert Flack, Max Greenberg, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Tim Greathouse, Joel Hoyer, David King, Jonathan Leiter, David Nelson, David Reyes, Hunter Reynolds, Ferenc Suto, Steed Taylor, Paul Thek, Stephen Varble and David Wojnarowicz.

From the Curators’ Statement:
Looking Up Lyrics
From A to Z and then Z to A, I combed the Archive and pulled slides that could build off of each other formally and conceptually. The process was like making a mix tape with someone else's record collection. When making a mix tape I pull all possible records, more than necessary, and then build my tape in a linear fashion, song by song, considering each song sonically and by its subject matter. With my web gallery the same was true: I selected far too many slides including old favorites, unknown works by old favorites, and newly discovered favorites. The editing came down to sequencing: which piece works after the previous piece, repeat until slide #20. End.

Curator:
Becca Albee is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been featured in exhibitions including those at the Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; Silo, New York, NY; China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; and Lump Gallery and Projects, Raleigh, NC. Her work has also been featured in publications including North Drive Press and Textfield. In the 1990s she was active in the Northwest independent music community where she was in the band Excuse 17. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received her MFA from UNC-Chapel Hill. Albee is currently an Assistant Professor of Art teaching photography in the Art Department and Electronic Design and Multimedia Program at The City College of New York, CUNY.


Visual AIDS was founded in 1988, to shift public opinion about--and increase awareness of--AIDS and the AIDS crisis. Visual AIDS has evolved into an arts organization with a two-pronged mission: 1) In collaboration with museums, galleries, artists, schools, and AIDS service organizations, Visual AIDS produces exhibitions, publications, and events utilizing visual art to spread the message AIDS IS NOT OVER.; 2) Through the Frank Moore Archive Project, the largest slide library of work by artists living with HIV and the estates of artists who have died of AIDS, Visual AIDS historicizes the contributions of visual artists with HIV while supporting their ability to continue making art and furthering their professional careers. www.visualAIDS.org

The Body is now the most frequently visited HIV/AIDS-related site on the Web, according to the Medical Library Association and also the most frequently visited disease-specific site on the Web, according to . The Body contains a rich collection of information on topics ranging from HIV prevention, state-of-the-art treatment issues, humor and art. An invaluable resource, The Body is used by clinicians, patients and the general public. Part of The Body's mission is to enable artistic expression to reach the Web, and to join art with other resources needed to help the public comprehend the enormity and devastation of the AIDS pandemic and to experience its human and spiritual dimensions.


Current and past Web Gallery exhibitions can be viewed at: www.thebody.com/visualaids
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