The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is the first dedicated LGBTQ art museum in the world with a mission to exhibit and preserve LGBTQ art, and foster the artists who create it. Founded in 1987 by Charles W. Leslie and Fritz Lohman, it has supported LGBTQ artists for over 30 years , and amongst it’s many activities it plays host to a highly-anticipated annual exhibition called “Dirty Little Drawings,” which now attracts huge crowds and produces record-shattering sales and media attention.
The project started over fifteen years ago when a handful of gay artists who were frustrated that the only available life drawing classes feature models in decidedly nonsexual, academic poses. Since then the group has grown to nearly four hundred members, and annually produces an estimated 24,000 drawings of some of New York’s most beautiful and seductive men in highly-charged, sexual poses.
During the course of each year, both first-timers and experienced artists alike are asked to produce works specifically in a 5.5 inches x 5.5 inches (approximately fourteen centimeters) square format, and all these identically-sized drawings are then shown and sold in “Dirty Little Drawings,”
October 7 – October 9
Prince St. Project Space, 127 Prince St., New York, NY
Information & further details : http://www.dirtylittledrawings.com/
