Marry Me. Lesbian group show in the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation newsletter

Autumn 2004	THE ARCHIVE	Issue #14
The Journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation

Marry Me A benefit exhibition celebrating lesbian marriage opens at The Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation on November 12. The show highlights the work of over 30 lesbian artists from the U.S., Europe and Israel presented as illuminated wedding invitations. All work has been donated and will be sold through a silent auction that will extend through the exhibition with the winning bidders to be announced at the show's closing on December 18. Proceeds will fund future purchases of work by lesbians for the LLGAF permanent collection. The works exhibited are as diverse as the women who have created them, ranging from abstract to representational they vary in sentiment from playfully satirical to decorative, erotic and romantic. Media employed includes drawing, painting, collage, photography and digital media. Following are a few of the works exhibited. All works are 5'' x 7''.
Stanne, Strasbourg, France My apples are male and female — in this work the apples are getting together on the female side, pink as babies and saying "YES!"
Nan Golub,NYC Nan has exhibited internationally since the mid 60s. Her work recently was shown in ALLURE at LLGAF. Title: Marry Me. We'll Go to the Sea
Carolyn Weltman, NYC Carolyn uses charcoal, graphite, gesso,oils and her computer to illustrate her innermost thoughts, poems and ideas. Her erotic art has been a constant fixture on the streets of New York's famous Soho art district since 1998 — determined to bring her art directly to the people. Title: Will You Just Marry Me, Dammit
Sharon McEachern, Denver, CO Sharon specializes in collage and mid media art. With a professional background as a journalist and psychotherapist, she began a third career as an artist, starting to show her work in juried exhibitions 13 months ago. Titles: Read My Lips; I'll Cut My Nose Hairs Just for You
Lisa Collado, Warrensburg, NY Complex issues and questions are present in my collages. Layering allows this to happen and reveals stages in my thinking. I think of my body of work as an attempt to analyze the human comedy much as Eduard Munch considered his to answer questions about the dance of life. My work, similar to a rock formation built up over the years, consists of innumerable striations-layers of deeply felt and closely examined experience .
Monica Misslbeck, NYC Born in Passau, Germany in 1945, Monica has exhibited extensively in Europe and the US since 1966.
Cohava (Cookie) Dodo and Adi Lavy, Brooklyn, NY Cookie and Adi are both Israeli artist living in NYC. Cookie (BFA in graphic design from The Fashion Institute of Technology) and Adi (photography major at the School of Visual Arts) are both are exhibiting for the first time. The pieces are a product of many conversations and arguments. Naively enough they thought the differences would be settled by collaborating on this project. Boy, they were wrong! After more arguing they've decided to submit two joint entries. The pieces show completely opposite approaches toward marriage, and both can be interpreted many ways, favoring and opposing the institution of marriage and the approval the LGBT community seeks.

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