AIDS 1987
This work marked a pivotal moment in the group’s practice: their engagement with the HIV/AIDS crisis at a time when the illness was a taboo subject and highly stigmatized. The painting appropriates American Pop and artist Robert Indiana’s LOVE motif (1964), substituting L-O-V-E with A-I-D-S. Produced for a fundraiser at Koury Wingate Gallery in New York, it was a the first of many AIDS works to follow.
AIDS 1987
This work marked a pivotal moment in the group’s practice: their engagement with the HIV/AIDS crisis at a time when the illness was a taboo subject and highly stigmatized. The painting appropriates American Pop and artist Robert Indiana’s LOVE motif (1964), substituting L-O-V-E with A-I-D-S. Produced for a fundraiser at Koury Wingate Gallery in New York, it was a the first of many AIDS works to follow.