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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260710
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SUMMARY:"Tom’s Stretch"
DESCRIPTION:TOM OF FINLAND Untitled (Study for the series “I Fuck All Police”)\, c. 1966\nGraphite on paper\, 8.25” x 5.88”\n© 1966 Tom of Finland Foundation\n \nA group exhibition exploring the legacy of Tom of Finland\nBy channeling private fantasy into virtuosic drawings\, Tom of Finland created a libidinal realm in which freedom and pleasure were the reigning tenets. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n \n  \nPresenting works by more than seventy artists\, Tom’s Stretch gestures toward the expanded\, transformative\, and more permissive definitions of the body—and of art itself—that Tom’s work makes possible. Throughout the exhibition\, his iconic visual language forms a link between the early underground worlds of Queer desire and an ever-evolving semiotics of the figure as charted by countless artists of subsequent generations. \nCLICK TO VIEW \nFeaturing Tom of Finland alongside Ramsey Alderson\, Angels of Light\, Steven Arnold\, Matthew Barney\, Ana Benaroya\, Peter Berlin\, Huma Bhabha\, James Bidgood\, Nayland Blake\, Matthew Brannon\, Jared Buckhiester\, Scott Burton\, Paul Cadmus\, Cassils\, Julien Ceccaldi\, Jonathan Lyndon Chase\, Kye Christensen-Knowles\, The Cockettes\, R. Crumb\, Christopher Culver\, Jory Drew\, Jason Fox\, Greg Gaar\, Aaron Gilbert\, Robert Gober\, Felix Gonzalez-Torres\, Jenna Gribbon\, Mark Grotjahn\, Namio Harukawa\, Richard Hawkins\, Hardy Hill\, Nick Hoecker\, Peter Hujar\, G.B. Jones\, William E. Jones\, Mike Kelley\, Mike Kuchar\, Doron Langberg\, Steve Locke\, Tala Madani\, Monica Majoli\, Robert Mapplethorpe\, Chris Martin\, Martin of Holland\, Paul McCarthy\, Tiona Nekkia McClodden\, Sam McKinniss\, Go Mishima\, Bob Mizer\, Donald Moffett\, Victor Moscoso\, Ebecho Muslimova\, Ruby Neri\, Paul P.\, Breyer P-Orridge\, George Quaintance\, David Rappeneau\, Spain Rodriguez\, Paul Mpagi Sepuya\, Jim Shaw\, Cindy Sherman\, Jack Smith\, Hajime Sorayama\, P. Staff\, Anita Steckel\, Hugh Steers\, Joey Strella\, Elizabeth Sunflower\, Ken Tisa\, Salman Toor\, S. Clay Wilson\, Basil Wolverton\, Martin Wong\, and Jonas Wood. \n  \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				ANITA STECKEL\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				CASSILS\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				CINDY SHERMAN\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				WILLIAM E. JONES\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				GREG GAAR\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				HAJIME SORAYAMA\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				STEVE LOCKE\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				JIM SHAW\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				RICHARD HAWKINS\n				\n		\n\n\nOpening Reception: Friday\, 10th July\, 6–8p \n \nhttps://www.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Opening-Eric-Minh-Swenson_compressed.mp4\n \nVIDEO BY \nERIC MINH SWENSON\n \n  \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\nPHOTOS BY \nJEFF MCLANE\n  \nViewing: Tuesday through Saturday\, 10a–6p \n\nDavid Kordansky Gallery presents “Tom’s Stretch”\n						An exhibition of works spanning over eighty years with artists engaging with Tom of Finland’s radical ability to imagine a physique—and a world—that did not yet exist in popular culture. This generation-spanning presentation includes works by Tom of Finland alongside more than seventy artists. By channeling private fantasy into virtuosic drawings\, Tom of Finland created... View Article
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/toms-stretch/
LOCATION:David Kordansky Gallery\, 5130 West Edgewood Place\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90019\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show
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SUMMARY:"FXLK PLAY" Exhibition Closing
DESCRIPTION:Bid farewell to FXLK PLAY with us at our final reception! After a monumental month celebrating our artists-in-residence past and present\, it’s time to say goodbye to this historic exhibition. Join us once again for a screening of FXLK PLAY highlights; words from the Exhibition Manager\, Catalina Bulgach; and a special appearance by former Artist-in-Residence Daphne von Rey! \nDaphne von Rey is a Los Angeles based performance artist who primarily uses her body to depict her experience as a HIV+ transgender individual.\n“Tom of Finland Foundation means a lot to me especially as that’s where I began my transition and journey as both a performance and visual artist.” –Daphne von Rey \n \n \nThere is no smoking or alcohol permitted on park property. There are two free parking lots in Plummer Park. The south lot (off of Santa Monica/Martel) enforces a 3-hour parking limit. There are no parking limits in the north lot (Fountain/Vista).
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/fxlk-play-exhibition-closing/
LOCATION:Plummer Park Long Hall\, 1200 North Vista Street\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90046\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence,Foundation Event,Gallery Show
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260220
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260321
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SUMMARY:"FXLK PLAY: Artists-in-Mischief\, Devotion\, and Mythmaking"
DESCRIPTION:A First-of-Its-Kind Exhibition Celebrating TOM House’s LGBTQ+ Artists-in-Residence\nCurated by Jamison Edgar \nThis exhibition celebrates fifteen years of artists-in-residence at Tom of Finland Foundation and frames TOM House as a living pantheon of Queer mythmaking. \nFXLK PLAY transforms Long Hall into an immersive exhibition of painting\, sculpture\, and video that evokes the maximalist nature of TOM House and its world-renowned erotic art archive. The exhibition positions the Foundation as a living site of Queer mythmaking. \nFeaturing works from Tom of Finland Foundation’s permanent collection and archives\, the group show is organized into three thematic collections and features an immersive installation of artists’ videos\, a listening station with reflections from past residents\, and a comprehensive timeline of TOM House.  \nExhibition Manager: Catalina Bulgach \n\n \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n \nPHOTOS BY JON VISCOTT\nCOURTESY OF THE CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD\n  \nFree\nDocents on site \nThursdays through Sundays\, noon–5p\n \nOn Saturdays\, from Noon-2p\, exhibition curator Jamison Edgar will give walkthroughs of the space to provide deeper context and insight into the narrative of the show. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSEE BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS ⬇️ \n\n“FXLK PLAY: Artists-in-Mischief\, Devotion\, and Mythmaking”\n						[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”83090″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_column_text css=””] A survey of the Tom of Finland Foundation Artist‑in‑Residence Program [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”83091″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]This exhibition celebrates fifteen years of artists-in-residence at Tom of Finland Foundation and frames TOM House as a living pantheon of Queer mythmaking. For over forty years\, artists have passed through TOM... View Article
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/fxlk-play-artists-in-mischief-devotion-and-mythmaking/
LOCATION:Plummer Park Long Hall\, 1200 North Vista Street\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90046\, United States
CATEGORIES:Foundation Event,Gallery Show
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SUMMARY:OPENING "FXLK PLAY: Artists-in-Mischief\, Devotion\, and Mythmaking"
DESCRIPTION:The exhibition opens Thursday at Long Hall\, with opening-night festivities at Great Hall including remarks\, a keynote\, a panel with past and current residents\, and a performance and reception. \nAt Tom of Finland Foundation\, the artists-in-residence are at the center of this work. They don’t simply reflect Tom’s life\, they continually remake it. In doing so\, they become the orators of his evolving legacy\, carrying it forward into the future. The title FXLK PLAY nods to this slippery legacy and to the role the Artists-in-Residence Program has played in shaping the Foundation.\n \n5:15 – Chelsea Byers and John Erickson introduce exhibition\n5:20 – Jamison Edgar\, curator\, gives keynote address\n5:30 – Oat Montien performance\n6:00 – A-i-R roundtable with Carta Monir\, Mark T. Hayward\, Ryan Davis and Rinaldo Hopf\n6:30 – DJ with refreshments \nSEE BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE EXHIBITION ⬇️ \n\n“FXLK PLAY: Artists-in-Mischief\, Devotion\, and Mythmaking”\n						[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”83090″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_column_text css=””] A survey of the Tom of Finland Foundation Artist‑in‑Residence Program [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”83091″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]This exhibition celebrates fifteen years of artists-in-residence at Tom of Finland Foundation and frames TOM House as a living pantheon of Queer mythmaking. For over forty years\, artists have passed through TOM... View Article
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/opening-fxlk-play-artists-in-mischief-devotion-and-mythmaking/
LOCATION:Plummer Park Long Hall\, 1200 North Vista Street\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90046\, United States
CATEGORIES:Foundation Event,Gallery Show
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251101
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SUMMARY:SWEATMOTHER "Arrest the Image"
DESCRIPTION:Through photography\, moving image and performance Sweatmother complicates the structures of masculinity\, moving beyond the biological\, reconstructing presentation and desire from alternative masculinities. Much like the T-masc phantom limb this work would be in flux and experimental\, drawing on objects and forgotten archives. The work embarks on the archive of fantasy to record history from absence\, the legacy of Leather and empower T-masc spectators to visualize their own nuanced history. \n \n \nOPENING PROGRAM \nSpanking booth with Kyle Holiday from 6:30p-7:30p. First come\, first served. \nArtist performance begins at 7:30p\, featuring Sweatmother and Buffalo. \n  \n \nhttps://www.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/V2-IG_1_1.mp4\n \nThe film will have English subtitles and no sound. \nBeer\, wine and soft drinks will be served. \nCHECKLIST \n5% of every sale will go towards Cruise LA\, a Leather Queer party and community space\,\nas an investment for the future Trans and Queer communities in LA.\n \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n  \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n  \n \nOPENING PHOTOS BY \na klass  \n\n  \n \nhttps://www.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SnapInsta.to_AQMTou4ahJk61CZeRAE7829uchl_bsOGoshOsWCveTifaoOYBLCk4hbqITkDpVqIrk35vqkpwBbMQVwwKnN2yASchvGV08zlKrrUY6A.mp4\n \nArrest the Image will be on view through 30th October. Please call +1 213 250 1685 to make an appointment. \nThe artist will be available on 29th October from 11a-4p for walk-throughs. \n \n\nTOM HOUSE IS ON A RESIDENTIAL STREET IN ECHO PARK SO WE STRONGY ENCOURGE RIDE-SHARE OR PUBLIC TRANSPORT.\nThere is no wheelchair accessible toilet at TOM House. Also\, to access the House\, there are four stairs.\n\nMeet Artist-in-Residence Sweatmother\n						  Sweatmother is an artist and filmmaker based in London. His moving image work blends performance\, self-recorded documentation\, and archival materials to explore and make visible Queer lived experiences. Experimental techniques are often incorporated throughout his work such as an image making technique using a video synthesizer. He seeks to create art for his community... View Article
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/arrest-the-image-by-sweatmother/
LOCATION:TOM House\, 1421 Laveta Terrace\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Foundation Event,Gallery Show
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SUMMARY:"Lavender Bloom"
DESCRIPTION:BOFFO Fall Benefit Exhibition 2025 \nLavender Bloom brings together artists whose work engages with florals as a site of Queer transformation\, embodiment\, and radical possibility.\n \nFlowers can function as symbols of identity\, desire\, and defiance. Flowers can be vessels of coded language\, subversion\, and politics. In the lexicon of Queerness\, flowers hold particular significance—coded markers of resistance\, their scent a whisper of histories both hidden and reclaimed. Lavender Bloom brings together artists whose work engages with florals as a site of Queer transformation\, embodiment\, and radical possibility. \nBotanical language has long been entangled with Queer histories\, operating as both metaphor and means of survival. Petals become sites of protest\, gardens evolve into spaces of care\, and blossoms—both cultivated and wild—emerge as emblems of resilience. This exhibition situates floral imagery within a lineage of Queer aesthetics\, examining its capacity to reflect the vast interpretation of Queerness as fluid\, strange\, deviant\, unclassifiable\, different\, eccentric\, excessive\, extravagant\, flamboyant\, curious\, weird\, exceptional\, peculiar\, odd\, outlandish\, and nonconforming. \nThrough painting\, sculpture\, photography\, and more\, Lavender Bloom explores the shifting relationship between Queerness and nature. Works interrogate the boundaries between the organic and the constructed\, the ornamental and the political. Some artists will engage with historical codes of floral symbolism—channeling the violets of Romaine Brooks\, the poetic symbolism of love and longing represented by floral motifs in Martin Wong’s paintings\, and the themes of loss and remembrance in the photographic images of roses by Félix González-Torres—while others will subvert traditional representations of nature through abstraction\, materiality\, and performance like the radiant\, almost spiritual energy of Beauford Delany’s late works\, blooms of Cy Twombly\, the charged botanicals of Robert Mapplethorpe. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\nLavender Bloom draws on the deep historical ties between lavender and Queer identity. The phrase evokes both the history of the Lavender Scare\, when Queer individuals were persecuted in the mid-20th century\, and the later reclamation of lavender as a sign of empowerment within LGBTQ+ activism. Just as lavender flourishes in unexpected places\, this exhibition celebrates the ways Queer artists have used floral imagery to assert presence\, cultivate beauty\, and reimagine belonging. \nDesigned by Math Bass \n\nPARTICIPATING ARTISTS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlannah Farrell \nAlessandro Teoldi \nBony Ramirez \nCFGNY \nChris Martin \nClifford Prince King \nDominique Knowles \nEJ Hill \nFicus Interfaith \nJimmy Wright \nJoe Brainard \n\n\n\n\n\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Giorno \nJohn Sandroni \nJustin Liam O’Brien \nK8 Hardy \nMath Bass \nMoses Leonardo \nNicole Eisenman \nOren Pinhassi \nPamela Sneed \nPeter Schlesinger \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Youn \nRoss Bleckner \nSahar Khoury \nScott Treleaven \nTabboo! \nTM Davy \nTom of Finland \nTravis Boyer \nUlrike Müller \nWangShui \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \nhttps://www.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SnapInsta.to_AQMYmhkVW9AdcQoBNJq6Tn2jSKgmrb5B9Cj2L9SiRr-QYiEsXFCFWEp5ZrkxBf1wYgbAktwLpKpREmCX83fi_HvW74w9q-62Tc25fUo.mp4\n  \n\nOpening: 23rd October\, 6–8p \n\nPanel Discussion: 25th October\, 4–6p \nTom in Bloom\nArtists reflecting on Queer figuration in their work with Tom of Finland as a source of inspiration.\nWith artists Bony Ramirez and Alannah Farrell in conversation with Michael Bullock. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n  \n\nPublic Hours: 24th-25th October\, 10a–6p \n \n\nWithin Lavender Bloom\, Tom of Finland’s Flower print unfurls as both tribute and transformation—a bridge between past and present\, and a testament to the endurance of Queer imagination. \nPlaced among contemporary Queer artists exploring floral imagery as a language of care and resistance\, Flower becomes part of a broader conversation on how Queerness continues to evolve through tenderness\, community\, and collaboration. The partnership between Tom of Finland Foundation and BOFFO turns legacy into dialogue\, showing that the radical beauty of Tom’s work still pulses through new generations of artists. \n\nTom’s in full bloom\n						Tom of Finland’s Flower—A New Limited Edition Print Celebrating Queer Beauty\, Legacy\, and Community Produced in collaboration with BOFFO and Powerhouse Arts TOM OF FINLAND\, Flower\, 1970 / 2025 Medium: Five color screenprint using water-based inks on 100% cotton paper Sheet: 14.0″ × 11.0″\,  Image: 8.3″ × 5.9″ Edition: Time-limited edition (print run determined by... View Article
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/lavender-bloom/
LOCATION:kurimanzutto new york\, 516 West 20th Street\, New York\,\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
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SUMMARY:SAL SALANDRA with FABIO ZAMBERNARDI "Theater of Delight"
DESCRIPTION:Opening: Friday 19th September | 6:30p \n \nIn the tradition of past exhibitions at Camera Doppia\, they’ve designed a special poster that reflects Sal’s practice\, from the initial drawings to the final stitchings\, and highlights the unique collaboration with Fabio for this occasion. Conceived as a poster on one side and a leaflet on the other\, it includes a poetic text that captures thier collective feelings while exploring Sal’s Queer and erotic universe. \n  \n  \n\nTheater of Delight is the first solo exhibition in Italy by Sal Salandra\, a self-taught artist based in East Hampton\, New York\, internationally known for his thread paintings depicting joyful\, erotic scenes between Queer men and other expressions of same-sex desire. \nFor this exhibition\, Milan-based fashion and costume designer Fabio Zambernardi creates a site-specific display inspired by biographical elements from the artist’s life—particularly the period when Salandra was running a hair salon in New York City. At the center of this theatrical stage\, Zambernardi constructs an environment in which the artist’s sexual imagery mingles with the vernacular and the trivialities of everyday life. Yet this setting is far from literal: suggestive rather than indexical\, it resists banality and leaves space for the imagination. The scenography is evocative\, composed of fragments that hint at different “stations” in a life or fantasy\, without ever fully resolving into a fixed narrative. \nSAL SALANDRA The Baptism of Christ\, 2025 \nThe exhibition features ten paintings spanning from 1995 to 2025\, including four drawings that often serve as starting points for the artist’s thread paintings. For this occasion\, Salandra has created a new work inspired by The Baptism of Christ\, an oil-on-panel painting completed around 1475 in the studio of Andrea del Verrocchio and generally attributed to both Verrocchio and his pupil Leonardo da Vinci. Salandra’s tribute to this canonical religious motif is deliberately irreverent: he transforms the scene into a Queer\, pagan ritual—provocative yet humorous—reframing sacred iconography through the lens of erotic pleasure. \nOpen by appointment only
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/sal-salandra-with-fabio-zambernardi-theater-of-delight/
LOCATION:Camera Doppia\, Via Francesco Ingegnoli 13\, Milan\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show
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SUMMARY:"Sombras del Barrio" The Art of Héctor Silva
DESCRIPTION:Explore the captivating world of Héctor Silva\, a Los Angeles-based artist renowned for his internationally collected work. Silva is a true trailblazer\, blending homoerotic art with Latino/Chicano culture to create a unique and essential narrative.\nHÉCTOR SILVA \nHis art bravely navigates taboo subjects like machismo\, same-sex desire\, and kink\, offering a vital Latin perspective that was previously absent. Discover his impactful artwork\, meet the artist\, and even have the opportunity to take home a work. \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/sombras-del-barrio/
LOCATION:Lüstern\, 359 South Broadway\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250813
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SUMMARY:ÉAMON McGIVERN "Legible to Desire"
DESCRIPTION:ON VIEW THROUGH 11th August\nBY APPOINTMENT ONLY: +1 213 250 1685\nEAMON McGIVERN Raoul Bejerano\, 2025 \n\n\nTom of Finland Foundation is proud to present Legible to Desire\, a new exhibition of paintings by current artist-in-residence Éamon McGivern. The series of oil paintings is based on original and archival photographs made and discovered at TOM House during his residency. \n\n\nIf you are familiar with Tom of Finland’s work you may recognize some of the faces within the paintings in this show. About half of the paintings are based on photographs of Tom’s friends and lovers here in L.A. I am fascinated by the vast gap between the photographic images of these men and the fantasies they became through Tom’s drawings. By posing for Tom’s camera\, they offered themselves up to his erotic imagination where everyone is youthful\, impossibly fit\, well endowed\, masculine\, virile and versatile. The homogeneity of his figures creates a kind of egalitarianism where violent societal power structures collapse into a carnivalesque orgy. \nIt’s easy to see the appeal of this fantasy world\, when in reality we must navigate the collective erotic imagination informed by class\, race\, age\, body type and gender presentation. Whether the scripts associated with the roles we inhabit align with or are antagonistic to our desires\, we all contend with how our bodies are perceived. These paintings are an exploration of how we as Queer men grapple with the archetypes available to us in order to make ourselves legible to the desires of other men. \n\n–Éamon McGivern \nAVAILABLE WORKS \n \nOPENING RECEPTION: Thursday 31st July from 6-9p\nJoin us on this special evening celebrating his accomplishments. \nThe program will include an artists talk with McGivern and former Artist-in-Residence Carta Monir as well as performances by Peter Kalisch\, Emily Lucid and Cade Moga.  \n\n\n\nMeet Éamon McGivern\, Artist-in-Residence\nWelcome Éamon! Éamon McGivern is a painter from San Francisco who over the last seven years has painted portraits of Bay Area Queers\, punks and poets. More recently\, he has been delving into the archives of twentieth century LGBTQ+ history\, picking up strands from holes in the historical narratives in an attempt to darn the tears between the past and present wrought by political oppression\, transphobia and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. McGivern’s work feeds into the sorrow borne from the absence…
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/eamon-mcgivern-legible-to-desire/
LOCATION:TOM House\, 1421 Laveta Terrace\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence,Foundation Event,Gallery Show
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250627
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251021
DTSTAMP:20250722T035109Z
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SUMMARY:"Homage: Queer lineages on video"
DESCRIPTION:Including P. Staff’s The Foundation\nP. STAFF The Foundation\, 2015\, video still. Video\, 28 min. 20 sec. Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council \nThe exhibition brings together eight moving-image works by contemporary artists who use video and film-based installations to pay tribute to formative figures and overlooked histories. The works upend conventional modes of commemorative image making—such as portraiture\, documentary\, and monuments—by foregrounding performative interventions\, selective appropriation\, and imaginative staging. It preferences desiring\, melancholic\, and reflexive forms of relationality across generations through works that posit Queer forms of kinship. \nP. STAFF The Foundation\, 2015\, Video still \nStaff’s The Foundation explores Tom of Finland Foundation. It was established in Los Angeles in 1984 to preserve the vast catalogue of Finnish artist Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen\, 1920–1991)\, who made a considerable impact on masculine representation in post-war culture. \nContinuing the thematic significance of anachronistic gestures\, formal affinities\, and archival adjacencies in reframing relationships between artists and their chosen ancestors\, The Foundation holds intergenerational and historic confluences in relation. The film takes its title from Tom of Finland Foundation\, set up by Durk Dehner and Tom in 1984 to preserve the artist’s vast catalogue. \nTOM OF FINLAND Untitled\, 1986\, Graphite on paper\, 13.00” x 13.25” © 1986 Tom of Finland Foundation \nThe film combines footage shot at the Foundation’s HQ in Los Angeles\, TOM House\, with choreographic sequences staged within a specially constructed set that draws on the aesthetics of experimental theatre. This allows Staff to introduce us to a discourse of identity formation that spans time and place and locate it in the context of historically important struggles within the Queer community. \nTom of Finland made a considerable impact on masculine representation\, and the film becomes a portrait of this site\, as a home to the archive of the artist and Gay icon\, as well as the community of people that care for it. Rather than focusing on Tom’s work as a documentary might\, in offering a reflection on the communities that it hosts and promotes\, Staff’s film works through the social relations that such a place produces. In its exploration of archival material and its caretakers\, the film ruminates on the more human aspects of archives and the communities that can be built when such an approach to institutional working is considered. \nP. STAFF The Foundation\, 2015\, Video still \n Much like this exhibition itself\, the film asks: How is a community formed and constituted? What kinds of communities can a body of work produce? We are invited to think through the performance\, construction\, and deconstruction of physical attributes and gender identifications. \n \nhttps://www.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SnapInsta.to_AQNTO8ZaF8npKTP2Mdm4Q2wruWWCI59UpJbkMk3WQdn0urpyiZ1msHD8emzfA1X7q0fDHOYJpVfvtbgQjYPOVQ4l76GbN9Fd8u_vm4c.mp4\n \nCURATED BY: Rattanamol Singh Johal\nArtists Dineo Seshee Bopape\, Tony Cokes\, Carolyn Lazard\, Kang Seung Lee\, P. Staff\, Rirkrit Tiravanija\, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul challenge the preoccupation with visibility and publicness across the politics of identity and representation\, demonstrating instead the potential of anachronistic gestures\, formal affinities\, and archival adjacencies in reframing relationships between artists and their chosen ancestors. The resulting constellation reveals modes of memorialization–of paying homage–that disturb canonicity and heroization through constant creative reinterpretation. \nLenfest Center for the Arts\nWednesday–Sunday\, Noon–6p
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/homage-queer-lineages-on-video/
LOCATION:Wallach Art Gallery\, 615 West 129th Street\, 6th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250615
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250903
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SUMMARY:"Before the Men"
DESCRIPTION:  \nOPENING\nSunday 15th June 2025\, 1–6p\nOpening talk by curator and ToFF team to welcome the public.\nVIEWING\nNoon–8p weekdays\n11a–8p weekends\nThis landmark show features fifteen original preparatory drawings by Tom of Finland—works never before exhibited\, offering a rare look into Tom’s formative years as an artist. \nThese works thrum with fantasy\, vulnerability\, and the raw energy of Queer becoming—before the myth\, before the men\, before the icon. \nTOM OF FINLAND Untitled\, c. 1970\, Graphite on paper\, 11.63” x 08.25”\, © Tom of Finland Foundation \nInstalled for the first time in Fire Island Pines—a historic home for Queer creativity and sensual liberation—this exhibition invites viewers to engage with Tom’s early imagination as both cultural inheritance and sacred archive. \n  \nPresented by the Queer Culture Arts Foundation (QCAF) and Tom of Finland Foundation\nin collaboration with David Kordansky Gallery and Fire Island Tea\n\n“Before the Men” opens at The Visitor Center in Fire Island Pines\n						The exhibition of Tom’s preparatory drawings Before the Men is presented by the Queer Culture Arts Foundation (QCAF) and Tom of Finland Foundation in collaboration with David Kordansky Gallery and Fire Island Tea. The opening was a success\, and even featured deserts inspired by Tom’s graphite drawings and his favorite dessert\, apple cake. A Summer... View Article\n\n						\n\nSummer of Tom: Tom of Finland Foundation at Fire Island Pines\n						Summer of Tom: Tom of Finland Foundation at the Pines     Before the Men Exhibit Opening Sunday 15th June 1–6p Location: The Visitors Center\, 36 Fire Island Boulevard\, Fire Island Pines\, New York Opening talk by curator and ToFF team to welcome the public to view Tom of Finland originals in an historic setting.... View Article
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/before-the-men/
LOCATION:The Gallery at the Visitors Center\, 36 Fire Island Boulevard\, Fire Island Pines\, NY\, 11782\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show,Tom of Finland
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SUMMARY:BEN YOUDAN "Mask"
DESCRIPTION:Gallery 4 hours\nSunday: Closed\nMonday – Tuesday: Closed\nWednesday – Thursday: 10a – 5p\nFriday: 10a – 9p\nSaturday: 10a – 5p\nBank Holidays: Closed\n  \nAs part of a series of interventions in the Philip Wilson Steer In Conversation exhibition\, the Williamson has invited the Liverpool artist\, Ben Youdan\, to feature a work that contrasts and explores the themes found within Steer’s work.\nYoudan’s practice employs a wide variety of techniques and processes including collage\, drawing\, painting\, printmaking and photography\, to create imagery that takes inspiration from the iconography and ephemera of popular culture as well as his lived experience. His pieces explore themes such as identity\, glamour and sexuality in an unapologetically Queer fashion. \nIn Youdan’s own words: \n\nAs an artist\, I am interested in exploring the notion that the masks we wear can reveal something intrinsic to our nature. These masks can be physical or psychological. The anonymity of concealing our physical appearance can have a liberating effect\, that emboldens the individual to explore their true nature. This inherent contradiction is particularly prevalent within queer sexual subcultures. \nSteer’s work is often seen as voyeuristic\, whereas mine revels in a more exhibitionist nature\, born out of lived experience. \nWhilst Steer’s work has a muted\, naturalistic colour palette\, my work revels in its own artifice. The colours selected are deliberately synthetic\, clashing\, and even gaudy\, but with a self-awareness and exuberance that reflects the unapologetic nature of the subject. In many ways this work is the polar opposite of the muted tones and perceived repression found within some of Steer’s work in this exhibition. \nIn traditional portraiture\, the eyes are typically what the viewer engages with\, setting the mood for the piece and revealing a vulnerability in the subject. With ‘Mask’\, the eyes are deliberately obscured\, presenting my subject in a way that is vulnerable\, honest and open in a way that protects them\, allowing them to remain indifferent to the judgement they might receive. Where Steer’s subjects are laid bare in a passive\, open manner\, mine retains their agency and power by presenting an authentic version of themselves and their sexuality – on their terms. \nThe image of the gas mask can be interpreted in a variety of ways. In this specific intervention it is a device used in sexual role-play in a variety of fetish subcultures which deviate from the mainstream. It often denotes a submissive person who has elected to give themselves over completely to the gratification of a dominant partner. To a mainstream observer\, this can often have darker connotations. This piece aims to subvert that presumption. Instead of black shiny rubber\, it is presented in pink shiny glitter\, challenging preconceived notions of alternative sexual expression. \nMy complex\, handmade\, mixed media portraits take inspiration from my lived experience of pop culture\, the ephemera of daily life and queer subcultures. \n\nPart of Independents Biennial 2025
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/ben-youdan-mask/
LOCATION:Williamson Art Gallery & Museum\, Slatey Road\, Birkenhead\, Wirral\, CH43 4UE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show
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SUMMARY:"Well Hung"
DESCRIPTION:Open Monday to Saturday\n11a-6p \n  \nThis marvellous collection of art in a wide variety of media\, many of which are available for purchase at this one-of-its-kind exhibition. Coinciding with Pride Month\, there are presented 70 works of art from over 40 artists from all areas of the Queer community\, and from all parts of the globe. \n \nAs Gary Wright\, exhibition Curator\, says “The Atlantis Bookshop has always been a place of safety for occultists. It was where you could gently go and find your magical tribe – your community of magicians\, tarot readers\, witches\, druids etc. Some well-known people have been patrons of the shop – Aleister Crowley\, Austin Spare\, Doreen Valiente\, Dion Fortune\, Gerald Gardner – and anybody within the occult community has always known and supported the shop. \nThe space has always been a great champion of the Queer community: It’s equally been a safe space for people of all sexual orientations and identities to come and be welcomed.” \nA 64-page full-colour catalogue is available to commemorate the show. \nBen Youdan at the private view \n 
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/well-hung/
LOCATION:The Atlantis Bookshop\, 9a Museum Street\, London\, Bloomsbury\, WC1A 1LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250902
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SUMMARY:"A Homosexual Renaissance" curated by Hunter O'Hanian
DESCRIPTION:Opening : Sunday 25th May 11:00a – 12:30p\n\n \nA Queer Perspective on Historical Icons \nFresh from the Middle Ages\, the Renaissance (1300-1600) was a period of exploration of the human experience\, including science\, literature\, and\, importantly\, art. It was this period that ushered us into the Modern Age. In artwork commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church and other secular and nonsecular institutions\, many images\, although seemingly religious on their face\, were deeply imbued with male sensuality and sexuality. Key figures such as Christ\, St. Sebastian\, John the Baptist\, and others were depicted with scantily clad athletic bodies based upon Greek ideals of the perfect male form.  Pathos and suffering were present in nearly every painting. \nGay men have studied and admired this work for centuries. Indeed\, in the 20th and 21st centuries\, Gay men explored and\, in many cases\, created new works of art based on these masterpieces. In this exhibition are digital copies of major Renaissance paintings from significant museums paired with contemporary versions made by professionally trained and self-taught artists from the LA&M collection and other contemporary artists\, allowing the viewer to explore this genre’s lasting impact\, especially on the Gay male community. \n 
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/a-homosexual-renaissance-curated-by-hunter-ohanian/
LOCATION:Leather Archives and Museum\, 6418 N Greenview Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show
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SUMMARY:"TOM OF FINLAND" at Die Tankstelle
DESCRIPTION:OPENING RECEPTION: Friday 2nd May from 6-9p \nFor the inauguration of Die Tankstelle\, Galerie Judin presents some twenty-five masterpieces by Tom of Finland. \n\n \nTom of Finland is embedded in our cultural and visual memory with his drawings. As one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century\, he easily combines various superlatives. Tom of Finland is an icon of the Gay movement\, of fashion and fetish\, of art history\, and of pop culture in particular. His legacy is enduring\, having inspired the likes of David Hockney and Jean Paul Gautier\, Freddie Mercury and Robert Mapplethorpe – and many others to this day. \nIt is easy to forget the real person and the story behind the pseudonym: Touko Laaksonen\, born in Finland in 1920\,  started out as a musician\, turned into a successful commercial artist and\, from the 1940s onwards\, created the work we associate with him today as a sideline. The need of a pseudonym reflects not least the illegality at that time of his explicit depictions of Gay sex. It was only in later years that Tom was able to devote himself fully to his art making. \n \nTom of Finland’s powerful\, handsome\, proud Gay men established a new prototype of physical and mental\, almost unattainable\, perfection. To this day\, it remains a powerful endorsement of self-confidence and sexual self-determination\, far beyond Queer circles. \nFrom today’s perspective\, not every aspect of what was undeniably progressive back then meets our modern-day standards: Tom’s work has always been fundamentally about non-negotiable human rights. \n \nCoinciding with Gallery Weekend Berlin\, Tom of Finland is one of two inaugural exhibitions for Die Tankstelle\, a new collaborative art space shared by Galerie Judin and Pace\, which will house galleries\, offices\, and an adjacent cafe and bookshop. In a complementary presentation\, Pace will showcase an exhibition dedicated to works by Jean Dubuffet\, Jean-Michel Basquiat\, and Robert Nava. \n \n\nOPENING NIGHT \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n 
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/tom-of-finland-at-die-tankstelle/
LOCATION:Die Tankstelle\, Bülowstraße 18\, Berlin\, 10783\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show,Tom of Finland
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SUMMARY:SUNG HWAN BOBBY PARK "BTM 아 Ahhh"
DESCRIPTION:VIEWING HOURS: Tuesday-Sunday from 11a-5p\nA billboard-scale portrait fills the gallery’s front window space: the work depicts artist Sung Hwan Bobby Park\, wearing a 방탄모 bangtanmo\, a ceramic military helmet secured with a satin ribbon. Bathed in hot golden projected light\, the artist is both subject and agent of this photographic image\, claiming the space in front of the camera\, and in front of passersby\, as a site of self-sovereignty and intention. In the work’s installation at Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery\, the background colour exceeds the edges of the photographic image to include the adjacent wall and gallery’s main entranceway in its entirety. The viewer is first visually met with the resonant colour surrounding the image\, and then immersed in it on entering the space. \nSung Hwan works primarily in ceramics\, and with reference to his experiences as a Queer person undergoing military service as a marine in South Korea between 2012-2014\, and subsequent research related to the military. The BTM series\, within which the ceramic helmet is centred\, exists as an explicit assertion of Queer subjectivity. In the artist’s words\, this is a statement of Queer magnificence\, standing in direct response to the harm caused to Park and his peers forced to hide their identities by the armed forces. Specifically\, in 2017\, Sung Hwan learned that the Korean military had for a period created fake dating profiles as means to entrap soldiers who were Queer\, with those caught being investigated and outed to their units. \nBTM 아 Ahhh\, 2023\, which sits within an ongoing series of stills of the helmets as worn by the artist\, features a helmet with a gaping mouth and teeth adorned with pearls suspended on silver chains. The protruding tongue is pierced with a silver rod; green hair-extensions tassel or fall as braids from the crown of the gloss-glazed helmet with BTM insignia\, and a useable candle holder. The artist wears a necklace of PrEP pills\, HIV prevention medication\, and a side-eyed look that is shaded by the helmet’s low brim. The figure is counterturned\, subtly echoing homoerotic masculine representations within western classical history. \nSince 2018 the helmet has had a presence in Sung Hwan’s practice\, with individual works accumulating to become a formal language in which the body – the body of clay\, the human body – is foregrounded as protagonist. In this sense the work might be considered as form of Queer self-portrait\, commissioned by the ceramicist-artist Sung Hwan\, who works in collaboration with professional photographer Josh Harvey to achieve the image. Another work made in collaboration\, BTM 조상초상화 Ancestor Portrait\, 2023\, alludes to Bunmu\, official portraits of loyal military men in the Joseon era (late fourteenth to early twentieth century). In this work Sung Hwan wears a custom 단령 danryung jacket\, made by collaborator Steven Junil Park\, with 흉배 hyungbae or embroidered square depicting a flying unicorn distributing PrEP pills. Both BTM 조상초상화 Ancestor Portrait and BTM 아 Ahhh synthesise recognisable art-historical tropes with styling choices and narratives specific to this artist and his contemporary context. \nWe might read these portraits as an implicit queering of the dynamic art critic John Berger suggests is definitive of historical portraiture in the Western tradition: “On the one hand there is the individualism of the artist the thinker\, the patron\, the owner: on the other hand\, the person who is the object of their activities – the woman – treated as a thing or an abstraction” (Ways of Seeing\, 1972) Sung Hwan’s ‘self-portrait’ might in fact be read is a hybrid form within which subject-object relations are fluid\, and self-perception is validated. The viewer is not assumed to be a heterosexual male; the viewed is not assumed to be in state of submission to the vison of the photographer. New formal and political relationships become apparent: between forms of bodily adornment and self-protection\, between same-sex desire and its multiple art historical lineages\, between representations of queer joy and other modes of insubordination. \n— \n박성환 Sung Hwan Bobby Park was born in 청주시 Cheongju\, South Korea\, and moved to Aotearoa in 2000. He is based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Since completing study in product design at Auckland University of Technology in 2016\, Sung Hwan’s practice has expanded to include ceramic sculpture\, installation\, performance\, drawing\, and photography. In 2023 he was a recipient of a Springboard award from the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi. Recent exhibitions include BTM: Assembly at Objectspace\, BTM: Season at Season\, and Aotearoa Contemporary at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (all Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland\, 2024). Sung Hwan was recently Artist-in-Residence at Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles.
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/sung-hwan-bobby-park-btm-%ec%95%84-ahhh/
LOCATION:Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery\, Gate 3\, Kelburn Parade\, Wellington\, 6012\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence,Gallery Show
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SUMMARY:"Erotic City" at Eric Firestone Gallery
DESCRIPTION:VIEWING HOURS: Tuesday-Saturday from 10a-6p \nOPENING RECEPTION: Thursday 13th March from 6-8p\nPANEL DISCUSSION: Saturday 5th April at 4p \nFeaturing work by Helen Beard\, Judith Bernstein\, Paul Cadmus\, Miriam Cahn\, Jonathan Lyndon Chase\, William R. Christopher\, Jimmy DeSana\, Lauren dela Roche\, Jane Dickson\, Rosalyn Drexler\, Martha Edelheit\, Sarah Faux\, Mary Frank\, Louis Fratino\, Eunice Golden\, Jenna Gribbon\, Duncan Hannah\, Jane Kogan\, Joyce Kozloff\, Sophie Larrimore\, Pierre le Riche\, Marcus Leslie Singleton\, Kim Levin\, Lee Lozano\, Christabel MacGreevy\, Keith Mayerson\, Marilyn Minter\, Jay Miriam\, Rose Nestler\, Janice Nowinski\, Tom of Finland\, Letitia Quesenberry\, GaHee Park\, Claudia Renfro\, Kathy Ruttenberg\, Sal Salandra\, Mira Schor\, Carolee Schneemann\, Lara Schnitger\, Joan Semmel\, Patrick Siler\, Laurie Simmons\, Anita Steckel\, Betty Tompkins\, Katarina Janečková Walshe\, Mia Weiner\, Hannah Wilke\, and Didier William. \nEric Firestone Gallery is pleased to present Erotic City\, a group exhibition of over forty artists\, curated by Martha Edelheit. Edelheit (b. 1931\, New York\, NY) is a pioneering artist whose work confronts dominant art historical paradigms\, foregrounding female gaze and desire. Her lush and vivid work is at once critical\, sensual\, and humorous. An important voice for feminist art\, she is known for both her frank depictions of sexuality and her insistence on their place within an art historical tradition and society. Edelheit\, who has been represented by Eric Firestone Gallery since 2018\, lived in Sweden from 1993 until 2024. Now in her 90s she once again lives and works in New York City. \nWe are excited to announce an upcoming panel discussion in conjunction with Erotic City to take place Saturday 5th April at 4p. The conversation will be moderated by Rachel Middleman and will include Martha Edelheit\, Jenna Gribbon\, Keith Mayerson\, Sur Rodney\, and Didier William. \nEdelheit writes of Erotic City: \n\n“What is the difference between pornography and erotic art? I’m 93 years old. In our culture it wouldn’t be unusual to ask what someone my age is doing curating an erotic exhibition. While it may not be common knowledge\, most of my peers still have erotic lives\, some more active than others. Behind that sometimes bent and wrinkled exterior a very intense sensory life can still be functioning. Since the 1960s I’ve been doing work that has been called erotic. I never set out to do erotic drawings. I never thought of my work as erotic. I was drawing amusing stories I made up for myself. I can’t do these drawings\, or stories\, on demand. They happen to me. In 1959–60 a friend showed me his copy of the Japanese Pillow Book. It was my first encounter with erotica and it profoundly affected my imagination and art making. It is still the lens through which I view erotic art. A writer of novels once stated that “pornography is a book you read with one hand.” Erotic works are images and writings you can also look at with one hand. Concepts of the erotic and pornographic change over time\, and reflect the culture and politics of the era. Religion and politics define what is and isn’t pornography or erotica. The erotic novels of D.H. Lawrence were condemned as pornography when first published. When I was twelve or thirteen years old the erotic book being passed under the desks in my public school was “Gone With the Wind”. \n“I think of pornography as cold\, abusive\, nonconsensual\, painful\, humiliating\, mean\, degrading\, clinical. Pornography is a commercial endeavor. Money is exchanged for specific services rendered\, either in person\, film\, books\, pictures. It often supplies services for what is sometimes called deviant needs…..punishment\, pain\, humiliation\, infantile fantasies. Stomping\, spanking\, beating\, binding\, hitting\, exposing\, choking\, submission to a dominating person\, or dominating someone else. It has a much clearer delineation than erotica. \n“I think of the erotic as sensual\, nonviolent\, consensual\, warm\, inviting\, sometimes funny\, witty\, amusing. Erotica can include some of the pornographer’s stock in trade\, but it is lighter in touch\, sometimes humorous\, often witty\, and aesthetically pleasurable. Erotica assumes shared association\, touching\, stroking\, licking\, looking\, playing\, exposing….it digresses\, teases\, laughs\, arouses\, without harming. \n“Genitalia\, vaginas\, breasts\, and penises are not pornographic or erotic. They are normal mammal body parts\, usually used in reproduction. They depend on context to become pornographic or erotic. \n“While pornography will arouse\, it will not delight. Pornography can give immediate physical relief. Erotica can arouse but it also can give lasting aesthetic pleasure on many levels. \n“I hope this small selection of what I and the Eric Firestone Gallery consider erotic imagery will give you\, the viewers\, that experience.” — Martha Edelheit \n\nMartha Edelheit has selected over forty artists who express this vision of the erotic\, with works ranging from the 1950s to the present. Erotic City includes both historic and contemporary artists and showcases artists whose sensual work would immediately come to mind—such as Joan Semmel and Marilyn Minter—alongside artists for whom the erotic has been a significant\, though not always highlighted\, focus. A public program related to the exhibition will be announced soon\, for further exploration of its themes. We invite you to join us for the opening reception on 13th March from 6-8p.
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/erotic-city-at-eric-firestone-gallery/
LOCATION:Eric Firestone Gallery\, 40 Great Jones Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show,Tom of Finland
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SUMMARY:SADAO HASEGAWA — English Companion Inc.
DESCRIPTION:OPENING RECEPTION: Friday 7th March from 6-8p\nVIEWING HOURS: Thursday-Saturday from 11a-6p\n\n  \nBorn in 1950. Tell you the truth\, I have never had formal training of art. \nI was kind of an autistic child who could not enjoy playing with other kids at all\, rather\, it was even painful for me.\nInstead\, communing with mother nature\, loving flower\, animals\, and tiny inseccts were my mentor.\nIt was my supreme happiness when I indulged in revereis\, fantasies\, and my own paintings. \nAlthough I acquired sociability in my later years\, my habit to ‘trip’\, to communicate with super-nature still remained and it has become part of the most important source of my inspiration. \nMy past motif have been Grecian\, Indian\, Egyptian\, Japanese Kabuki\, folklore\, and Buddhism.\nNow I’m enthusiastic about Indonesian and Thai religious motif. \nI have strong intereste in Asian men\, religion\, sense of beauty.\nMy desire is to create the universe of beauty of men\, in a way which differs from Western point of view.\nEspecially these days\, I try to pursuit spiritual\, profound beauty and eros rather than a pornographic worlds which is something like furious orgies or sadism and masochism. \nI have had exhibitions several times in Japan. Unfortunately\, no museums has my work in their collections.\nJapanese society is still very concervative and museums are not ready to exhibit Gay art yet. \nMy work is now published every month on the ‘BARAZOKU’\, Japanese gay magazine. This year\, a plan is on foot to publish a book of selective pencil-drawings from BARAZOKU. \nI travel to Indonesia 3 or 4 times a year\, groping new ideas from an cultural exchange between local boys. \n\n—Sadao Hasegawa to Durk Dehner\, 13 February 1995 \n \na. SQUIRE is excited to announce an exhibition of works on paper by Sadao Hasegawa (長谷川 サダオ)\, English Companion Inc.\, organised in collaboration with Gallery Naruyama\, Tokyo. This is the only solo exhibition to materialise outside Japan to date and the first presentation of his work in the UK\, 35 years after the publishing of his first English monograph by éditions Aubrey Walter—a rare treasure in its own right. \nHow to introduce Hasegawa’s dazzling universe for the uninitiated? It is starry-eyed and joyous and tender\, richly sensual and brimming with fecundity. A hallucinogenic realm of priapic gods and demi-gods\, shibari and romance\, it is unfettered in its adoration of Asian men’s bodies\, and in its holism and attention to all living beings\, imparts a Buddhist sensibility. It is supremely skilfully rendered\, a dissertation in modulation and Day-Glo colours. And whereas any superficial glance might be misdirected to Tom of Finland\, its paradisiacal worldbuilding is perhaps far closer\, in fact\, to Elisàr von Kupffer’s. \nTo many the unparalleled master of Japanese gay erotic art\, Hasegawa nonetheless remains an indistinct figure\, biographically speaking. He travelled to India in his twenties\, settled in Tokyo\, and in 1978 began working regularly with publisher Itō Bungaku\, who seven years earlier had founded the first commercial gay magazine in Japan\, Barazoku (薔薇族). During the earlier half of the 80s\, Hasegawa’s work gained fast attention domestically\, illustrating the pages and covers of Sabu (さぶ)\, The Adon (アドン)\, and Samson (月刊サムソン). It was around this time\, too\, that his images started to appear in gay publications in the West\, among them In Touch for Men [I.T.] and Mach (a Drummer title). Indeed\, with the exception of a group show organised by Brian Scott Carr at New York’s Art Bar at Zippers around 1983\, and the sale of his prints through the Tom of Finland Foundation’s then-president Durk Dehner\, Hasegawa’s works were known to audiences outside Japan only via reproductions. He declined various invitations to exhibit abroad\, fearful that his drawings and paintings would never make it back through Japanese customs. \n“In Bangkok’s National Museum\, when the guards were not looking\, Sadao liked to touch the large stone sculptures of Khmer and Hindu deities\, ‘for their power’\,” recalled his friend\, the late Berkeley professor Frits Staal. Hasegawa began making frequent trips to Indonesia and Thailand in the 1980s\, and with these his syncretic vision of Asia emerged. It was not only a guiding superstructure but also constituted a politics of its own. In his works\, Balinese cult pools with Hindu iconography\, Thai mythoi and Confucian legend interweave on a seamless plane. Civilisations fuse\, and anuses blossom. The artifice of distinctions gives way to the divine\, the ghost image of the absented cock—veiled beneath a silken fundoshi or otherwise suggestively silhouetted to evade Japanese censors—the only reminder of a mortal reality to yank everything earthbound. \nThe works on view in London range from informal esquisses for Barazoku to meticulously fine drawings and one exceptional painting in which the spirit-man body-phallus emanates an ozone glow. A vitrine in the centre of the room contains\, among other unseen objects\, 5 sheets of the letterheaded paper of a Tokyo import-export company\, ‘English Companion Inc.’\, on which Hasegawa sometimes made his studies. To the left\, 9 intricate compositions tell of the deep-sea affair between a cyclops\, his beefcake\, and Hinomaru-waving cocktopus acolytes; and incorporates collaged reproductions of tropical fish\, whales\, and other aquatic creatures by the nineteenth century English naturalist Richard Lydekker\, which Hasegawa cut from the pages of Hart’s 1977 volume The Animal Kingdom. (This is Hasegawa’s natural history\, of which copulating men are a principal part.) Elsewhere in black-and-white\, an intergalactic space rock cock hurtles into view\, while nearby a mortal and his mythological dreamboat float in fire-whipped embrace\, the former’s spiked hair delicately scratched into the paper—a Hasegawan signature. Mists of speckled inks form the backgrounds and shadows\, behind all of which is Hasegawa’s reverence for Edo-period shunga. ‘ACT NOW’\, urges one image of nipple-tweaked ecstasy. \nSadao Hasegawa hung himself in a Bangkok hotel room on the 20th November 1999. His works\, originally discarded by his family\, were subsequently retrieved and taken to Akimitsu Naruyama according to his final wishes. \nSadao Hasegawa (b. 1950\, Tōkai region\, JP–d. 1999\, Bangkok\, TH) lived and worked in Tokyo\, Japan. His work was the subject of just one known solo show during his lifetime\, Sadao Hasegawa’s Alchemism-Meditation for 1973\, at SEIBU Shibuya department store\, Tokyo\, in 1973. Posthumous solo exhibitions have been presented at TOGA TRIANGLE\, Tokyo (2024)\, and at Gallery Naruyama\, Tokyo (2024\, 2023\, 2014 and 2000). Recent group exhibitions include Echoes of Mishima\, Galerie Pepe\, Mexico City (2023); Myth Makers—Spectrosynthesis III\, Tai Kwun Contemporary\, Hong Kong (2022); G\, Gallery Naruyama\, Tokyo (2017); and Naked Men 1876-2016\, Gallery Naruyama\, Tokyo (2016). His works are held in the collections of the Spencer Museum of Art\, Lawrence\, KS; the Sunpride Foundation\, Hong Kong; Tom of Finland Foundation\, Los Angeles\, CA; and the Ogizaki Masahiro Collection\, Tokyo.
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/sadao-hasegawa-english-companion-inc/
LOCATION:a. SQUIRE\, 3 Princeton Street\, London\, United Kingdom\, WC1R 4AX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show
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