Jerome Caja's Art Travels Across the US in 2015 & 2016

Powerful new group exhibition: "Art AIDS America"

​Last year I was contacted by Jonathan David Katz and Rock Hushka, the curators of the "Art AIDS America" exhibition. They were having a terrible time trying to locate a specific Jerome Caja painting (Bozo Fucks Death). They spent almost two years searching with no luck. Well, with a little help from Paule Anglim and myself, we were able to locate this painting and help get it into the "Art AIDS America" exhibition. This is the largest exhibition of its kind. After a preview in West Hollywood, it opens at the Tacoma Art Museum on October 3, 2015, before traveling to Georgia, the Bronx, and Chicago (see details below).

I am also pleased to announce that Jonathan Katz is one of The Jerome Project's key art advisors. Jonathan is a veteran queer academic who rounds out our board. He is the Director of the Visual Studies Doctoral Program at the University at Buffalo (The State University of New York), and is the president of the board of directors of the Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York City. He has done great work nationwide keeping Jerome's spirit alive. Jonathan curated several group shows over the years, many of which have included Jerome's work. Thank you Jonathan!

"Art AIDS America"

"This groundbreaking exhibition underscores the deep and unforgettable presence of HIV in American art. It introduces and explores the whole spectrum of artistic responses to AIDS, from the politically outspoken to the quietly mournful, surveying works from the early 1980s to the present."

"Art AIDS America" is organized by The Tacoma Art Museum in partnership with The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and co-curated by Jonathan David Katz, Director, Visual Studies Doctoral Program at the University at Buffalo (The State University of New York), and Rock Hushka, Chief Curator at Tacoma Art Museum. Generous support provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, and Gilead Sciences, Inc. The presentation of the preview exhibition Art AIDS America was made possible by the City of West Hollywood and The David Geffen Foundation."


TOUR SCHEDULE:

Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
October 3, 2015 − January 10, 2016
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia
February 20, 2016 – May 22, 2016
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
June 23, 2016 – September 11, 2016
To Be Determined, Chicago
Winter of 2016 – 2017

RELATED LINKS:

Website: Art AIDS America
Media Release: Art AIDS America
LOOP Magazine: AIDS' Impact On American Art Is Apparently Still Taboo -- by Christopher Treacy

by Anthony Cianciolo

Jerome Caja, Bozo Fucks Death (detail)
(nail polish and white out on tip tray)
Excerpted from: Jerome After the Pageant
7 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 1/2 in., 1988

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Jerome Caja, Little Yellow Angels
(nail polish and enamel on tray)
Excerpted from: Jerome After the Pageant
11 x 5 in. (oval tray), Unknown date

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Jerome Caja, Shroud of Curad
(nail polish, white out, & blood on bandage)
courtesy of Jeff Parker
7 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 1/2 in., 1988

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