At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World
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Curated by Hilton Als and organized in collaboration with the Estate of Alice Neel, At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World highlights the artist's vibrant involvement with the human condition. Within a lifetime of work, Neel painted many people from many walks of life--this catalogue is the first to focus on queer communities, those who were part of their circle, as well as allies and others with whom the artist was in broader conversation--together forming a collective portrait that both embodies and complicates an understanding of the queer world of Neel's moment and the artist's place within it.
This collection of paintings includes rarely seen works depicting individuals including Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, and Adrienne Rich, as well as writers, artists, friends, and advocates. As Als notes, this book includes "not just portraits of gay people but those of theorists, activists, politicians, and so on who would qualify as queer by virtue of their different take in their given field and thus the world. So doing, they reflect Alice's own interest in and commitment to difference."
The catalogue accompanies Neel's first significant exhibition in Los Angeles, at David Zwirner in 2024. Edited and with a text by Als, the volume includes newly commissioned contributions by Alex Fialho, Evan Garza, and Wayne Koestenbaum.
Evan Garza
Evan Garza is a Curator at MASS MoCA. They were awarded the 2021-2022 IMMA Fulbright US Scholarship at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and a visiting research fellowship in History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College Dublin, where they researched Irish contemporary art, protest movements, and Ireland's anticolonial history of rebellion. Garza has organized several exhibitions and projects internationally and was artistic director of the 2021 Texas Biennial, co-curated with Ryan N. Dennis. Garza is the former director of Rice Public Art at Rice University in their native Houston, and previously was Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. Garza was co-founder of Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), a New York nonprofit and the first residency program in the world exclusively for LGBTQ+ artists, where they served as assistant director until 2015. Their writing on the work of global contemporary artists has been published in several books and monographs and by Flash Art, ART PAPERS, and Artforum. Garza earned their MA from the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Clark Art Institute, and recently curated the exhibition Steve Locke: the fire next time, at MASS MoCA.
Wayne Koestenbaum
Wayne Koestenbaum is Distinguished Professor of Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of thirteen books of criticism, poetry, and fiction, including a biography of Andy Warhol, and the acclaimed The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire.
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