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David Michael Wojnarowicz ( / ˌvɔɪnəˈroʊvɪtʃ / VOY-nə-ROH-vitch; [1] September 14, 1954 – July 22, 1992) was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene. [2]
“The work that anybody does as an artist—if it doesn’t reflect resistance then they’re helping a system of control become more perfect,” 1 wrote David Wojnarowicz. For Wojnarowicz, exposing the hypocrisy of an unjust society was a fundamental reason for making art.
News. Beginning in the late 1970s, David Wojnarowicz (1954–1992) created a body of work that spanned photography, painting, music, film, sculpture, writing, and activism. Largely self-taught, he came to prominence in New York in the 1980s, a period marked by creative energy, financial precariousness, and profound cultural changes.
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David Wojnarowicz. American Multimedia Artist. Born: September 14, 1954 - Red Bank, NJ. Died: July 22, 1992 - New York City, NY. Movements and Styles: Queer Art. , Identity Art and Identity Politics. , East Village Art.
- American
- September 14, 1954
- Red Bank, NJ
- July 22, 1992
Sep 7, 2018 · Twenty-five years on, it remains a powerful statement about innocence, shame, hate, homophobia and the dangers posed to individual liberty by repressive governments. Like many of Wojnarowicz’s...
- Christine Smallwood
Aug 18, 2018 · Wojnarowicz, whose artistic career spanned the late seventies to his death, from AIDS, in 1992, at thirty-seven, posed the Rimbaud portraits in spots around New York that were significant in his...
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