![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Cajun on a fainting couch](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/270b9b3e79fa7f073c63dfe8364c9bd6d1cfb322-1600x1200.jpg?w=800)
What is a man? And who is an artist? Most impolite but let’s say it: What is a gay, or who? The presence though hardly the hegemonic force of queer people in the history of art, Modernism, the contemporary art world, etc., has been acknowledged for quite some time, though rather in a more discreet yes-we-know-but-the-world-doesn’t way. Once, I was moved to plan a group show that consisted entirely of gay men, and my dream line-up included Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Jasper Johns, and maybe Forrest Bess as a wild card, artists whose work is not inextricably tied up with (the artist’s) sexuality. Warhol, no: Too many drag queens at the Factory, too obvious, delicious and awful but “everybody knows.” That was 1990. A different time. Now the decorum but also the hypocrisies of bygone days are vanquished, or just forgotten, and nobody needs shelter in the shade of “yes we know but__”.
- David Rimanelli
Works
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Cajun on a fainting couch](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/270b9b3e79fa7f073c63dfe8364c9bd6d1cfb322-1600x1200.jpg?w=800)
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Cole in the bathtub](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/e82d08ba3623902ddb81a924629455cae32dd932-1138x1400.jpg?w=800)
Cole in the bathtub, 2020
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Chase nude in the pool](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/9e1f4eb514ff03be4a2aeb23fa9673a314723cdd-1050x1400.jpg?w=800)
Chase nude in the pool, 2019
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Caydin (upside down)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/c8b240e019fb6fdc9b0171d3cc861b9fb86e6d29-1600x1200.jpg?w=800)
Caydin (upside down), 2019
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/6b6ef19d735de74011a6e982e154c4543a660404-1120x1400.jpg?w=800)
Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off, 2020
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled you’re one of the tallest women i know](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/3257e027e486b2172fc52ef782daacdbec99a9a9-1000x1400.jpg?w=800)
you’re one of the tallest women i know, 2020
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Not Yet Titled](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/c4d9828971a935de2d6244d8df4c9c86fe96524c-1212x1400.jpg?w=800)
Not Yet Titled, 2020
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Not Yet Titled](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/f9c0c6c1286068e7a78b8971a7361724c09732c9-1208x1400.jpg?w=800)
Not Yet Titled, 2020
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Drunk](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/159ba146b4f04d8f6c1bdccf9b8e01dcb061cdc0-1149x1400.jpg?w=800)
Drunk, 2020
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Lucky For Men](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/0b479b80932ce058b13b9eb3806c057fd5c55d6b-1000x1333.jpg?w=800)