Encounters With Whitman
Encounters with Whitman is an exhibition in two parts, photography and video, both celebrating the Whitman Bicentennial.
Photography was a medium of fascination and importance to Whitman, in particular portraiture and landscape. The significance of these two themes are also reflected in his own literary work. The photography of Encounters with Whitman explore the contemporary landscape and portraiture that now defines our American experience.
The Video component to Encounters with Whitman examines, reinterprets, and celebrates Whitman鈥檚 Calamus poems. Forming part of Whitman鈥檚 larger collection of Leaves of Grass (1855), the Calamus poems remain one of the earliest and most explicit poetical sequences celebrating homoerotic love and affection between men. These poems also helped to shape individual and collective gay male ideas of democracy, masculinity, sex, freedom, and community. It is the exploration of these aspects of Whitman鈥檚 work we seek to highlight through this exhibition.
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Encounters with Whitman is an exhibition in two parts, photography and video, both celebrating the Whitman Bicentennial.
Photography was a medium of fascination and importance to Whitman, in particular portraiture and landscape. The significance of these two themes are also reflected in his own literary work. The photography of Encounters with Whitman explore the contemporary landscape and portraiture that now defines our American experience.
The Video component to Encounters with Whitman examines, reinterprets, and celebrates Whitman鈥檚 Calamus poems. Forming part of Whitman鈥檚 larger collection of Leaves of Grass (1855), the Calamus poems remain one of the earliest and most explicit poetical sequences celebrating homoerotic love and affection between men. These poems also helped to shape individual and collective gay male ideas of democracy, masculinity, sex, freedom, and community. It is the exploration of these aspects of Whitman鈥檚 work we seek to highlight through this exhibition.
Artists on show
- Amanda Tinker
- Andrea Walls
- Angelo Benedetto
- Brandon Straus
- Chris Northey
- Eddy Rhenals-Narvaez
- Geoffrey Agrons
- Howard Brunner
- J. Roth
- Jennifer Brinton Robkin
- Jose Luis Cortes
- Juliana Romano
- Julien Tomasello
- Kala Heatherson
- Mackinnon & Saunders
- Marcus Branch
- Mario Nascati
- Mateo Sierra
- Menelas
- Nanci Hellmuth
- Ric Stott
- Royal Torres
- Stiofan O'Ceallaigh
- Tony Rocco
- Vicente Ortiz Cortez
- Xaq Iria
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鈥淓ncounters with Whitman,鈥� an exhibit of photographs and video at the Da Vinci Art Alliance (DVAA), 704 Catharine Street, offers a fitting visual tribute to the work of poet Walt Whitman.
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