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Not Sacred
An exhibition commissioned by the Nathan Cummings Foundation

An exhibition at the Nathan Cummings Foundation
June 23 through October 17, 1997

About the Artists

The artists in the exhibition are represented in The Archive Project of Visual AIDS, a program which provides direct services to artists with HIV and AIDS through free photo-documentation, artists' materials grants, estate planning, referral to social service agencies, seminars and workshops. Visual AIDS is committed to increasing awareness and education about the impact of AIDS on society through programs of exhibitions, publications and events. The organization is renowned for the creation of the Red Ribbon in 1990 and for co-ordinating Day Without Art, each December 1st.

Rebecca Guberman lives in Portland, Oregon, following graduation from Pacific North West College of Art in 1996. Her work has been exhibited in Oregon, Colorado Springs, New York City and Boston, and she has a number of upcoming group shows in Manhattan in 1997 and 1998. She is currently working on a film project documenting the lives of HIV positive youth across the United States.

Barton Lidice Benes has shown extensively throughout Europe and the United States, most recently at the University of Albuquerque, Museum of Art, New Mexico. He is well-known for the publicity and public health censorship that is often the response to his exhibitions, including cases brought to court in Sweden and vociferous tabloid press in England and the U.S.

"Brenda" was made, with the approval of Brenda's brother, Christopher, by coating paper Red Ribbons with her funerary ashes. Benes made Ribbons specially for the family, in her memory.

Steed Taylor trained in English and Studio Art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and completed his M.B. A In Marketing at the American University, Washington D.C. Having successfully established a career in Marketing Communications, Taylor decided to pursue his artistic career full-time after being diagnosed HIV positive.

A recent review in Art in America, April 1997, stated:

"Taylor's pieces were standouts. Each is a dye-transfer print of a nude figure whose body has been elongated by a cut-and-paste process. Steed, who last season at Franklin Furnace showed a poignant series of childhood snapshots in which he had blacked-out his own figure, here seemed to be extending the images of friends and family members - including his parents - as if reluctant to let them remain finite in size."

-- Holland Cotter

Michael Slocum was Director of Publications and Editor of Newsline for two years, until his death on March 6, 1995. He was previously Editor of Body Positive, where he co-wrote a piece which is still in use called "You're not alone", an empowering essay for people who are diagnosed HIV positive.

Michael was highly regarded at PWAC, NY and is still missed by his colleagues.

Carlos N. Molina, Managing Editor of SIDA ahora and Editor of PWAC, NY Quarterly Resource Directory, says of Michael, "He touched many people."




	Not Sacred An exhibition commissioned by the Nathan Cummings Foundation An exhibition at the Nathan Cummings Foundation June 23 through October 17, 1997 About the Artists The artists in the exhibition are represented in The Archive Project of Visual AIDS, a program which provides direct services to artists with HIV and AIDS through free photo-documentation, artists' materials grants, estate planning, referral to social service agencies, seminars and workshops. Visual AIDS is committed to increasing awareness and education about the impact of AIDS on society through programs of exhibitions, publications and events. The organization is renowned for the creation of the Red Ribbon in 1990 and for co-ordinating Day Without Art, each December 1st. Rebecca Guberman lives in Portland, Oregon, following graduation from Pacific North West College of Art in 1996. Her work has been exhibited in Oregon, Colorado Springs, New York City and Boston, and she has a number of upcoming group shows in Manhattan in 1997 and 1998. She is currently working on a film project documenting the lives of HIV positive youth across the United States. Barton Lidice Benes has shown extensively throughout Europe and the United States, most recently at the University of Albuquerque, Museum of Art, New Mexico. He is well-known for the publicity and public health censorship that is often the response to his exhibitions, including cases brought to court in Sweden and vociferous tabloid press in England and the U.S. "Brenda" was made, with the approval of Brenda's brother, Christopher, by coating paper Red Ribbons with her funerary ashes. Benes made Ribbons specially for the family, in her memory. Steed Taylor trained in English and Studio Art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and completed his M.B. A In Marketing at the American University, Washington D.C. Having successfully established a career in Marketing Communications, Taylor decided to pursue his artistic career full-time after being diagnosed HIV positive. A recent review in Art in America, April 1997, stated: "Taylor's pieces were standouts. Each is a dye-transfer print of a nude figure whose body has been elongated by a cut-and-paste process. Steed, who last season at Franklin Furnace showed a poignant series of childhood snapshots in which he had blacked-out his own figure, here seemed to be extending the images of friends and family members - including his parents - as if reluctant to let them remain finite in size." -- Holland Cotter Michael Slocum was Director of Publications and Editor of Newsline for two years, until his death on March 6, 1995. He was previously Editor of Body Positive, where he co-wrote a piece which is still in use called "You're not alone", an empowering essay for people who are diagnosed HIV positive. Michael was highly regarded at PWAC, NY and is still missed by his colleagues. Carlos N. Molina, Managing Editor of SIDA ahora and Editor of PWAC, NY Quarterly Resource Directory, says of Michael, "He touched many people."						Return to Not Sacred Exhibit