The Foundation is named in honor of our two founders Fritz Lohman and Charles Leslie. We are a unique non-profit arts cultural institution established in 1990 to be a safe haven for that art which is often excluded from main stream exhibitions and textbooks and looked upon as taboo or less than important or embracing by historians and critics. Indeed, some even try to deny its existence!
That is slowly changing. Mainly because of places like Leslie/Lohman and a new breed of artist who want to reclaim their own. It is a difficult project — to retrace the thread of gay and lesbian art throughout history — but it has begun. We at Leslie/Lohman are doing our part by seeking out those artists who exhibit the knowledge, desire and skills to achieve a recognition that gay and lesbian art exists not in a vacuum but as an integral part of art history.
The Foundation houses a sizable permanent collection, begun by the Founders, and continued through contributions and donations of concerned citizens who want their collections preserved intact and protected from an ignoble end. Now through the medium of the World Wide Web we are empowered to reach out as we never could before from New York City to the world. The walls are down, literally, and our reach and impact are greater and more effective than ever before.
We welcome and encourage you to contact us with any information you may have about gay and lesbian artists anywhere in the world, past or present. We are continually collecting new information and discovering art that no one outside a few close friends knew about. Likewise, we are continually surprised and encouraged by the quality of that work. And when we can exhibit that work in the galleries or on the web it is to an appreciative audience who are hungry for positive confirmation of our place in history.
You are cordially invited to view our membership page and consider becoming a “Friend of Leslie/Lohman.” Your comments, suggestions and referrals are encouraged and always welcome. We are very glad you found us on the World Wide Web and if you are ever in New York City please stop by to visit the galleries.
Thank you for visiting The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation's website.
The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation is a public non-profit foundation established in 1990 to provide an outlet for art work that is unambiguously gay and which is frequently denied access to mainstream venues. The Foundation's Leslie/Lohman Gallery mounts exhibitions of work in all media by gay and lesbian artists with an emphasis on subject matter that speaks directly to gay and lesbian sensibilities, including, erotic, political, romantic, and social imagery and providing special support for emerging and underrepresented artists.
Its programs include regularly scheduled exhibitions, video events, workshop presentations of plays and poetry readings, artists' and curator's talks, panel discussions, a quarterly journal (The ARCHIVE), a membership program, an archive of artists files, a website, and a permanent collection of art.
The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
26 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013
(Between Grand & Canal)
Hours: 12 Noon - 6pm, Tue - Sat
Closed: Sun & Mon & all major holidays
Please check the CALENDAR
Phone: 212-431-2609 Fax: 212-431-2666
[click here for HotStop.com - to get subway directions]
Charles W. Leslie (charles@leslielohman.org)
Executive Director, Chief Curator
Wayne Snellen (wayne@leslielohman.org)
Director of Collections, Director of the Archives, Director of Internet Services, Associate Curator
Rob Hugh Rosen (rob@leslielohman.org)
Director of Operations, Director of Volunteers, Associate Curator
Scott Runyon (scott@leslielohman.org)
Director of Development and Communications
Tom Saettel (tomsaettelnyc@yahoo.com
Director of Publications; Editor, The ARCHIVE
Victor Trivero
Exhibition Lighting Director
Jay Boda
Office assistant
Exhibition/Review Committee: Board of Directors
Charles W. Leslie, Chairman
J. Frederic Lohman, ASID
Jonathan D. Katz
James Saslow
Phil Rubin
Erica Bell, Esq., Legal Counsel
Anna Canepa, Co-chair
David Jarrett, Co-chair
Lowell Detweiler
Daniel Kitchen
Norman Laurila
Nicholas McCausland
Sonia Melara
Marion Pinto
Robert W. Richards
Norbert Sinski
Victor Trivero
Douglas Turnbaugh
Peter Weiermair
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