David Wojnarowicz Mixed Media
American, 1954-1992
David Wojnarowicz was an author, poet, photographer, musician, filmmaker and painter whose work as an AIDS activist influenced his visionary and revolutionary art. Personal experiences of disenfranchisement and the stories of people he met living on the margins of society informed the narratives of his work, with identity, sexuality and a bristling against political structures all contributing to its visceral edge. Wojnarowicz unapologetically channeled his anger at the injustices exacted on minorities and alternative lifestyles through repressive governments and financial systems into his paintings, prints, collages and photography.
Wojnarowicz was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, in 1954. He had a tumultuous childhood, dropping out of high school and living on the streets by the time he was 16. He spent much of his youth hitchhiking, spending time in San Francisco and then Paris.
Wojnarowicz moved to New York’s East Village in 1978, where he began exhibiting his art, which he frequently made from found materials. He became a central figure in the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, refusing to censor his work, which often forthrightly reflected his queer sexuality and his fury at the conservative establishment. Particularly after the death of his lover Peter Hujar in 1987, he concentrated on the government’s political inaction during the AIDS crisis. As he wrote in his 1991 memoir, Close to the Knives, “To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific repercussions.”
Wojnarowicz died in 1992 from complications due to AIDS. His art is in major collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tate Modern and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, which has championed LGBTQ+ artists such as Wojnarowicz for decades. In 2018, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York held a retrospective of his work.
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Artist: David Wojnarowicz
Untitled (USA)
By David Wojnarowicz
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (USA), (1989) by artist David Wojnarowicz, featured in "The Queer Show, Part I" at Hal Bromm Gallery
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1980s David Wojnarowicz Mixed Media
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Mixed Media
Yokio Mishima (St. Sebastian)
By David Wojnarowicz
Located in New York, NY
Original piece by David Wojnarowicz. Showing at The Queer Show Part II.
Category
1980s David Wojnarowicz Mixed Media
Materials
Masonite, Spray Paint, Acrylic
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Falling Man and Statue of Liberty
By David Wojnarowicz
Located in New York, NY
Collaboration between David Wojnarowicz and Jane Bauman
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This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
1980s Street Art David Wojnarowicz Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint
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Trial Run of "Burning House"
By David Wojnarowicz
Located in New York, NY
Spray paint on paper
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This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
1980s Contemporary David Wojnarowicz Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint
Price Upon Request
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