Frost Art Museum Hosts ART AFTER STONEWALL 1969 – 1989 Exhibition – Art Basel Headliner Preview

When:
September 14, 2019 – January 5, 2020

Where:
Frost Museum
10975 SW 17 Street
Miami, Florida

Frost Art Museum (FIU) will be one hosting Art After Stonewall: 1969 ─ 1989. This exhibit includes more than 200 works including photographs, paintings, sculpture, film clips, video, music, and performance pieces, plus historical documents and images taken from magazines, newspapers and television.

The show will also be headlined at Miami’s Art Basel in December: when Miami Art Week attracts 70,000+ collectors, cultural leaders, artists and media influencers from around the world.

The exhibit surveys the impact of the LGBTQ civil rights movement on visual culture, during the two decades after the Stonewall Riots, as the first Pride marches took flight, providing visual history of twenty years in American queer life.

The exhibition presents the work of openly LGBTQ artists alongside other artists who also engaged with the emerging queer subcultures, between 1969 and 1989, during the first two decades of art-making that immediately followed the Stonewall uprising.

A partial list of artists whose works are included in this exhibit includes: The list of trailblazing artists includes: Vito Acconci, Laura Aguilar, Diane Arbus, Lyle Ashton Harris, Judith F. Baca, Don Bachardy, Lynda Benglis, JEB (Joan E. Biren), Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Arch Connelly, Tee A. Corinne, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Karen Finley, Louise Fishman, Nan Goldin, Michela Griffo, Sunil Gupta, Barbara Hammer, Harmony Hammond, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Peter Hujar, Holly Hughes, Tseng Kwong Chi, Greer Lankton, Annie Leibovitz, Christopher Makos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Frank Moore, Alice Neel, Catherine Opie, Jack Pierson, Marlon T. Riggs, Jack Smith, Joan Snyder, Carmelita Tropicana, Andy Warhol, and David Wojnarowicz, among others.

This exhibit and related events will also showcase the role that Miami has played in the LGBTQA movements, including the nationwide mobilization in 1977 to counter Anita Bryant’s s campaign to overturn a Miami-Dade County ordinance that banned discrimination against gays and lesbians.

For more information visit the Frost Museum website.

Photos courtesy of Frost Art Museum