Days of Hope: The Fair Oaks Hotel
The next chapter in my series " Days of Hope " are paintings based on Polaroid images taken by Frank Melleno at the Fair Oaks Hotel in...
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Aug 11
Special place magic in the Cave of Forgotten Dreams
One of my favorite films of all time is "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" (2010) by Werner Herzog. It is a documentary about the Chauvet Cave in...
Matt Pipes
Aug 9
My Gay Ellis Island
I am personally and artistically inspired by the idea that Queer educator Gregory Mattson (@lyondeus on Instagram) posited which is that:...
Matt Pipes
Aug 9
Days of Hope
What are the "Days of Hope"... In 2018 I started a series of portraits about a time when the civil rights journey for LGBTQ+ was...
Matt Pipes
Sep 28, 2019
A moment in LGBTQ+ history: Our time is now!
Although cave painting images like the San people in Zimbabwe (8000 BCE) and the writhing male figures in the Grotta dell'Addura cave...
Matt Pipes
Sep 23, 2019
Adventure, danger, romance and lust: Imagining the Christopher Street Piers
So much of my work lately has been focused on understanding and capturing an era (let’s say between 1948 and 1982) in which lives for...
Matt Pipes
Sep 21, 2019
Finding inspiration in Queer history’s humble heroes
This summer I had the chance to see the “Love and Resistance” exhibit that the New York public library put on to celebrate 50 years since...
Matt Pipes
Sep 15, 2019
Why Queer Art?
why is it that I choose to create artwork that is so… Gay?
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