The Wojnarowicz Exhibit @ Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan

 Eric and I planned our trip to New York City around great food, people watching and museums.





The Whitney Museum of
American Art is first on
our list.

Their featured artist is

David Wojnarowicz:

History Keeps Me

Awake at Night

Two faces painted on
a torn, upside down
poster written in
Spanish.







I am new to Wojnarowicz and clearly see his interest in Central and South America's political instabilities.  The poster is hastily mended and the wording is not lined up.  The face on the right is stitched closed.  Dissenting views are quashed in this piece.

A man sleeps while
 the world struggles

with drug abuse,
commercialism,

 war, alcoholism,
 rigid church
 doctrine...

Science Fiction meets
the Wild West or....

Disruption of native
culture leads to the
destruction of our
world.





Violence is a recurring theme in Wojnarowicz's works.

A 1950s thug shares
 the sleeping man's
dreams with a science
 experiment, an alien,
 damaged statues & 

  an ancient, broken

column.

Look more closely for more destructive images.

A monstrous figure watches

over a polluting power plant

& a worker carrying his 

prey, an antlered buck

on his shoulders.

A lone swimmer is at the 

bottom of this piece.

Is the water clean, or is

 it polluted?

David Wojnarowicz used his art to showcase political, social and environmental activism. 
He died of complications from AIDS at age 37.