New York City AIDS Memorial Store:
The New York City AIDS Memorial honors the more than 100,000 New Yorkers who have died of AIDS and aims to inspire visitors to remember and reflect as well as empower current and future activists, health professionals, and people living with HIV through educational and cultural programming. All proceeds from the Store benefit the New York City AIDS Memorial.
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STEVEN EVANS
Don’t Leave Me This Way/Never Can Say Goodbye, 2022
Neon sculpture with hardware and electronic components
6.00 x 39.50 x 1.75 in / 15.2 x 100.3 x 4.4 cm
Edition of 10
$7,500
This work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the Artist
Artist Steven Evans has explored the connections between music, language, memory, identity, and collectivity in his sculptures and installations for over thirty years. When Evans arrived in New York City in the late 1980s, he became involved in two scenes that would form the basis for his artistic practice: activism and dance music.
Don’t Leave Me This Way/Never Can Say Goodbye is a continuation of this practice as well as an extension of his most recent public installation Songs for a Memorial, which was on view at the New York City AIDS Memorial in New York’s Greenwich Village from June 1 through September 6, 2022. By appropriating and combining the titles of two disco anthems tied inextricably to the period surrounding the onset and height of the AIDS epidemic, Evans weaves narratives of both individual and collective memory and history that examine complex relationships between loss, love, sadness, joy, and celebration—paradoxes that exist at the crux of his practice.
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SILENCE=DEATH COLLECTIVE
Silence=Death (unframed), 2021
Serigraph and letterpress with blind deboss on 100% cotton museum board
34.3 × 28.3 inches / 87.0 × 71.8 cm
Edition of 200
$1,000
Available now, a limited-edition Silence=Death print, with proceeds benefiting Visual AIDS, the New York City AIDS Memorial, and Silence=Death Collective. Created by the Silence=Death Collective in 1986, this design was originally produced as a wheat pasting that peppered New York City in ′87 to raise awareness about the AIDS epidemic. The collective intentionally eschewed any photographic imagery, instead reclaiming the pink triangle assigned to LGBTQ+ prisoners in Nazi death camps set against a black background with “Silence=Death” printed across the bottom. It has since become a defining symbol of queer pride and resistance.
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