Gallery 98 is pleased to have provided works for the exhibition “Screaming in the Streets: AIDS, Art, Activism,” opening this Thursday, August 3, at ClampArt gallery, 247 West 29th Street. The exhibition takes its name from a statement by artist David Wojnarowicz at the height of the AIDS Crisis: “I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.”
Curator Greg Ellis dealt up close with the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and ’90s, both in his work with marginalized communities through social services agencies and his involvement with an early needle exchange program.
A detailed press release, with reproductions of 67 exhibition items, can be found online here.
