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DAVID ARMSTRONG
Born 1954
Lives in Watertown, MA

Kevin 1983
black and white photograph 16 x 20 inches

A prime motive for my photographs has always been to record the faces of the gay community.  My own recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction occurring simultaneously with the AIDS-related illness and deaths of many friends has only served to strengthen that resolve.

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TOM CHESLEY
Born 1951
Lives in Cambridge, MA

Time for Communion II
oil on canvas 68 x 64 inches

The objects in my personal vocabulary are in suspension, free from gravity.  The bridge, the cage, the hospital bed, and the hospital all reoccur in my work and are always suspended in air.  The recognizable objects in my painting represent the life of the resurrected.  I've been near death and that experience stays close.  I paint between yes and no and life and death.  In the process of painting these images I have come to feel I am painting reality. Life as it is, and death as part of life.  Through my own sense of resurrection and closeness to death, I feel close to the AIDS crisis.

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DORIT CYPIS
Born 1951
Lives in Minneapolis, MN

"Yield" (the body) 1989
(with Linda Brooks, Ann Marsden, Lyn Havebrick, Nan Goldin)

AIDS is symptomatic of a culture which has lost its "body."  "Yield" (the body) is a step toward reclamation, a step towards surviving other's definition of my body; a step towards celebrating many bodies; a step towards recovery.

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