For the fourth consecutive year, Visual AIDS presents a group exhibition at La MaMa La Galleria to coincide with the June LGBT Pride celebrations. Mixed Messages: A(I)DS, Art + Words includes over forty text-based works by visual artists and designers whose reactions to and connections through HIV/AIDS reflect the contemporary moment’s tenor on the pandemic. From painting to print, sculpture and installation, the featured works juxtapose public messages with deeply personal revelations, which are at once polemic and poetic, positive and negative, both in tone and form. A series of public programs will also take place on site.

Mixed Messages features work from U.S. and international artists and designers, both emerging and established. A mix of art, activism, and design, the exhibition pairs internationally renowned figures like Felix Gonzalez-Torres, John Giorno, Glenn Ligon, Deborah Kass, Yoko Ono, Jack Pierson, Kay Rosen, David Wojnarowicz, and Rob Wynne, with critically-acclaimed emerging talent such as Leslie Hewitt, Matt Keegan, Lucas Michael, and J. Morrison. It also presents works by legendary activists Gran Fury and General Idea alongside prints by award-winning graphic artists Anthony Burrill, Experimental JetSet, and James Joyce.

Mixed Messages

June 2 through July 3, 2011

La MaMa La Galleria

6 East 1st Street

(Between Bowery and Second Avenue)

Mixed Messages Events

Opening Reception

June 2, 2011 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Mixed Messengers Panel Discussion

Sunday June 12, 2011, 4:00 – 6:00PM

Featuring creative teams and organizations behind recent HIV prevention campaigns: Kevin O’Malley of NYC’s GayMeth.org; Chuck Pollard, Creative Director of L’Oreal Salon Products Division, who recently helped launch the international campaign Hairdressers Against AIDS; and Stephen Karpriak, PhD, Associate Director for Research at the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America. Moderated by Kenyon Farrow (Co-editor, Letters from Young Activists). Free.

The Heat is On!

Wednesday June 29, 2011, 7:00 – 10:00PM

An evening of cutting edge performances to benefit Visual AIDS. Suggested donation: $20

Mixed Messages Closing Party

Wednesday June 29, 2011, 10:00PM on

Featuring resident DJs Jools Palmer and Mandy Graves and special guests.

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Mixed Messages Exhibition

Visual AIDS