GAY — Bronx Council on the Arts / Longwood Arts Project, New York, 2014

Exhibition announcement card / offset print on card stock / full colour / double-sided
Approx. postcard dimensions
Condition: very good; light handling wear and minor surface marks consistent with age and circulation

An original exhibition card issued for GAY, a group exhibition at Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, Bronx, New York, examining shifts in identity through the cultural production of gay male artists of color across the period 2003–2013. Organised by Ivan Monforte and presented by the Bronx Council on the Arts and Longwood Arts Project, the exhibition brought together an intergenerational and multidisciplinary group of artists including David Antonio Cruz, Steve Locke, Jacolby Satterwhite, Rafael Melendez, and others working across painting, performance, video, photography, and installation.

The recto reproduces a lush wooded stream landscape interrupted by the word gay rendered in thin lowercase white typography — image and text held in quiet tension. The reverse shifts from image to administration: exhibition dates (5 February–7 May 2014), public programming, panel discussions, screenings, community events, and an advisory notice regarding mature content. Infrastructure becomes part of the printed surface.

Within a The New Rare reading, the object functions as retained institutional material rather than simple promotion. It compresses a larger cultural moment into portable form. The exhibition survives here not as installation but as a circulation object: image on one side, infrastructure on the other.

Original period item. Shipping and handling included in listed price.