Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. This month, Richard Haines curates the artwork of Archive Members; David B. Abbott, Marcelo Alves, Bern Boyle, Rene Capone, Joe De Hoyos, Jimmy DeSana, Bryan Hoffman, Jerry Hooten, Samuel Lewis, Eric Molnar, Daniel Roberts, Nelson Edwin Rodriguez, Joseph Stabilito, and George Towne.
From the Curator's Statement:
From the Curator's Statement:
As I looked through the archive so many memories came rushing at me. Maybe this is why it's taken so long to curate this web gallery. It's incredibly painful to relive this amount of loss. This is my generation. I get the references, the styles. But now the work is everyone's generation, it belongs to all of us. That's part of the great beauty of art. (read more)
About the Curator:
Richard Haines often refers to New York City as an endless runway; befitting of a man who moved to the big city to pursue illustration, became a successful fashion designer, and who has come full circle as one of today’s most sought after fashion illustrators. In fact, many look to Haines as the impetus of fashion illustration’s resurging popularity today.
Haines' illustrations regularly grace the pages of InStyle Magazine and his wildly popular website, What I Saw Today which feature his personal and professional works, has received accolades from respected critics at Paper Magazine, New York Magazine, men.style.com, refinery29.com and getkempt.com, to name just a few. It is not uncommon to see Haines seated front row at fashion week’s most desirable shows busily sketching images for magazines and blogs who hire him to record what no camera is capable of capturing. In July 2009, Haines received his first solo show at one of the Lower East Side’s most respected galleries, Envoy Enterprises.
View WEB GALLERY here
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