Gallery: A Sobering Look at How AIDS Changed Art in America

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    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum; Private collection
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    400 dpi 7 inch Rodriguez-IMG-8504

    Tino Rodriguez's *Eternal Lovers* (2010) is one of many pieces in the new exhibit *Art AIDS American* grappling with death during the AIDS crisis.
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    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum; The Lapis Press, San Francisco © 2015 Niki Charitable Art Foundation. All rights reserved Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY ADAGP, Paris
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    Niki de Saint Phalle's *AIDS, you can’t catch it holding hands* (1987) is a parody of a children's book teaching kids about the disease.
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    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum; Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
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    Joey Terrill's *Still Life with Forget-Me-Nots and One Week’s Dose of Truvada* (2012) is a post-cocktail-era piece. The cocktail is the newer medicine that extends the lives of those living with HIV.
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    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum and the artist
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    9 inch 400 dpi Serrano-Blood&SemenIII

    Andres Serrano's *Blood and Semen III*, 1990.
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    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum; Courtesy of the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York
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    9 inch 400 dpi Wojnarowicz 1988-89 Untitled (Falling Buffalo) 27.5x34

    David Wojnarowicz made *Untitled (Buffalo)* in 1988 while dying of AIDS. The photograph uses the 19th-century government-sponsored eradication of buffalo to symbolize the neglect of those living with AIDS.
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    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum; Gift of Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom in honor of Rock Hushka
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    400 dpi 7 inch Haukaas-2008

    Thomas Haukaas's *More Time Expected* (2002) features some horses without riders, in honor of the Native Americans who died from the disease.
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    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum and the artist
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    400 dpi 7 inch In My Room (2)-3.27

    Kia Labeija, *In My Room* (2014). The 26-year-old artist was born with HIV, which she contracted from her mother.
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    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum and the artist
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    400 dpi 7 inch Mourning-Sickness

    Kia Labeija, *Mourning Sickness* (2014).
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    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum, the artist, and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
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    Shimon Attie, *Untitled Memory (projection of Axel H.)* (1998).
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    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum; Gran Fury and the New Museum, New York, William Olander Memorial Fund
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    One of the most recognizable symbols from the AIDS crisis era is the pink triangle used by the activist group ACT UP for the 1990 documentary *SILENCE = DEATH*.
  • Keith Haring's Altar Piece was the last work he made before dying of AIDSrelated illness.
    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum; Denver Art Museum, Gift of Yoko Ono
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    400 dpi Haring-1996-204A-C

    Keith Haring's *Altar Piece* (1990) was the last work he made before dying of AIDS-related illness.
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    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum and the artist
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    Bill Jacobson, *Interim Portrait #373* (1992)
  • Deborah Kass's Still Here is one of many pieces in the show that explores the experience of the survivor.
    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum; Private collection © 2015 Deborah Kass Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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    Deborah Kass's *Still Here* (2007) is one of many pieces in the show that explores the experience of the survivor.
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    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum; Scott R. Portnoff
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    400 dpi Winn-01-Front-Cover-MLUN-03-Akedah-1

    Albert J. Winn, *Akedah* (1995).
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    Courtesy of Tacoma Art Museum and the artist
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    Robert Sherer's, *Sweet Williams* (2013) is painted in HIV negative and HIV positive blood on paper.
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