David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992)

‘[David] Wojnarowicz was fearless when it came to self-expression—fearless about his work and fearless about showing it…There couldn’t have been a better artist to represent that short-lived movement, where neo-expressionism met inner-city dystopia. For Wojnarowicz was not only an outsider by nature, he revelled in that status and celebrated his own fringe view almost shamanisticly. His works address annihilation, disenfranchisement, depersonalization, and dread, but as much as they invoke the big ideas of a world gone wrong, they also record the artist’s own fears, memories, and demons. In a way, all of his works could be read as self-portraits’ (C. Bollen, quoted in, C. Carr, ‘David Wojnarowicz’, in Interview Magazine, reproduced at http:/ www.interviewmagazine.com/art/david-wojnarowicz/).