Club 82
2019
12" x 9", artwork is framed in 12" x 16" frame.
Graphite and colored pencil.
"Club 82" is part of a series of colored pencil drawings, "Small Appliances" that intermingles sex toys with venerable modernist motifs. The vibrant pop colors, inventive compositions and humor reveal the artist's queer pleasure in injecting the marginalized into the mainstream. Club 82 was the name of a former lesbian bar in New York City.
Deborah Bright (b. 1950, Washington, D.C.) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Fogg Museum, Harvard; Addison Gallery of American Art; Katonah Museum of Art; Leslie-Lohman Museum; Victoria and Albert Museum; the Museet for Fotokunst, Copenhagen; Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Vancouver Art Gallery; and included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum; National Museum of American Art; Addison Gallery of American Art; Fogg Art Museum; Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Boston Athenaeum, Rose Art Museum; California Museum of Photography and the RISD Museum. She has received numerous grants and awards for her art and critical writing and edited a noted book on queer photography, "The Passionate Camera: photography and bodies of desire".
Dimension
Height: 12.00 in
Width: 9.00 in
Condition
Artwork is framed in 12" x 16" frame. signed on verso.