#hughsteers

[arteefalo]

// #arteefalo Artista: ©Hugh Steers (1962–1995) Title: Hospital Bed (1993) Medium: Oil on canvas - 61 1/4 x 65 1/8 in (155.7 x 165.35 cm) Imagem: Reprodução/INTERNET ___ #HughSteers ... Follow us on our social networks: Instagram: @arteefalogallery Facebook: @arteefalo Twitter: @arteefalo https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj4ZxnBtMPa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[larsfredriksvedberg]

#hughsteers by #donaldsuggs

[arteefalo]

// #arteefalo Artista: ©Hugh Steers (1962–1995) Title: Grey Mattress (1988) Medium: Oil on canvas 64 1/2 x 67 3/4 in (163.8 x 172.1 cm) Imagem: Reprodução/INTERNET ___ #HughSteers ... Follow us on our social networks: Instagram: @arteefalogallery Facebook: @arteefalo Twitter: @arteefalo https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj4aWAaOf85/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[artistny]

Beautiful quiet visit to the #artshownyc by @the_adaa #hughsteers @trophysophie @susaninglettgallery @debraforcefineart @matthewmarksgallery @pacegallery @artinamerica #ericwolf #dekooning (at ADAA Art Show) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9KMisKBron/?igshid=1hr3sanu2wftm

[artbookdap]

Celebrate #pridemonth with 'Hugh Steers: The Complete Paintings' We ❤️ this book—the first on the promising figurative painter who died of AIDS (in 1995) at the age of 32. Nelson Santos, Executive Director of @visual_aids writes, "His work, which was increasingly informed by his own illness, is defined by its subject matter—isolation, the fragility of the body, and intimacy between men. Committed to figurative painting at a time when it was out of favor with critics and collectors, Steers nonetheless gained appreciation for his expressionist-realist narratives of a life shadowed by mortality yet infused with wry humor, camp, and what Steers himself called a 'gorgeous bleakness.'" #hughsteers #gaypride #lgbtq #visualaids #aids #gay #queer https://www.instagram.com/artbook/p/ByuyQ3IJjRZ/?igshid=14j16n2mh018

[kaploded2]

#Repost @alexandergrayassociates (@get_repost) ・・・ In “High-Heeled Embrace” (1989), Hugh Steers depicts a semi-clothed man in high heels embracing a clothed man from behind. Steers often included high heels in his paintings, which he identified as signifiers of a “sexual quality.” At once empowering and precarious, heels represented both Steers’ evolving queer identity and the unstable emotional, social, and political landscape he found himself navigating as an HIV positive man. As the writer Justin Spring muses, “By including some erotically charged detail—a platform wedgie, a satin cape—… [Steers] reminds us that disease itself is a secondary concern … rather than the immediate cause of drama. Moreover, he suggests that … there’s a complex emotional conflict going on here: beyond mere anger, a lingering desire for something transcendent; below the outer layer of bitterness, a core of romantic longing.” Expressing the poignant reality of living in a time when love and death were inextricably linked for gay men, Steers’ image of an embrace evokes narratives of desire, companionship, and illness—inviting comparisons to the domestic scenes of Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard. For Steers, this choice of subject matter was not merely a means of contextualizing and documenting the realities of life and death experienced during the AIDS epidemic, but also a personal reckoning with his own battle. In the midst of so much anger, hatred, and fear, Steers explained his need for compassion, saying, “I would like to be able to act or have someone care about me the way some of the people in my paintings act or care about each other. It’s as if painting it will make it become real. That painting of a man holding another man is conjuring that tenderness, that hope that someone will still care about you and will be there.” #HughSteers #ContemporaryArt #Art #Painting https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq3-2VkHWV4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xsntt6p3gbr3

[burninginwaterart]

Hugh Steers: “The Nullities of Life” is on view at Alexander Gray in NYC through July 20. Hugh Steers, Mr. Coffee, 1993, oil on canvas. #hughsteers #poster #elgreco #life #paintings #silenceequalsdeath #nyc #gallery @alexandergrayassociates #thenullitiesoflife (at Alexander Gray Associates)

[burninginwaterart]

Steers, who passed in 1995 at the age of 32, painted intimate scenes of daily life suffused with a sense of “gorgeous bleakness.” Hugh Steers, Phones: Tribute to El Greco, 1988, oil on canvas. #hughsteers #poster #elgreco #life #paintings #silenceequalsdeath #nyc #gallery @alexandergrayassociates #thenullitiesoflife (at Alexander Gray Associates)