“AllTogether” | Benoît Prévot, Evan Walsh, Goh Mishima and Gregory Maskwa

AllTogether features artists from the Tom of Finland Foundation collections.

BENOÎT PRÉVOT (B. 1968, French)
Benoît Prévot is a graduate of EMSAT, Paris, and worked at various design and advertising studios before receiving formal training at the C.F.T. Gobelins to work on several animated television series. His body of work includes comic books, fanzines, book covers, and promotional posters. Prévot’s work has been shown at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY, and has been seen regularly at the Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festivals. Prévot lives and works in Paris, France.

“Thanks to the Foundation I was able to have the opportunity to show my work. Now, it would not just be hidden doodles. Thanks to Durk Denher and Sharp for their support, and thanks to Tom of Finland for opening the road!” – BP

EVAN WALSH (B. 1980, American)
Evan Walsh is a Los Angeles-based photographer specializing in the documentation of art. After co-managing the fine art photo lab Contact Photo Lab, he went freelance in 2020. Evan has photographed the vibrant Los Angeles art and photography scene for the past two decades and has contributed to numerous books and periodicals. Evan photographed the artwork and interiors for the AllTogether catalogue.

GOH MISHIMA (B. 1924 D. 1988, Japanese)
Goh Mishima (born Tsuyoshi Yoshida), was a homoerotic fetish artist and founder of the magazine Sabu. Noted for his illustrations of “macho-type” men, often in bondage and with yakuza-inspired irezumi tattoos, he is regarded by artist and historian Gengoroh Tagame as a central figure in the first wave of contemporary gay artists in Japan. During the late 1950s, Mishima discovered the art of Tom of Finland, who came to influence his work.

GREGORY MASKWA (B. 1953, Canadian)
Gregory Maskwa is an artist and art editor whose clients include Buckingham Palace and famed beat poet Allen Ginsberg. During his twenty-five-plus years in New York, his works were exhibited in various galleries, most notably at VisualAIDS.

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The exhibition tells the individual stories of the artists. At the same time, the exhibition locates parallels, interactions, and influences between Tom of Finland Foundation, Tom’s aesthetic impact, and the community of artists that have formed throughout the years around them…View

Published: 6th June 2022

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