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Artist Exhibitions:
A Bofetada. Solo show.
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 1990.
ICP graduation exhibit. Group
show. Ledel Gallery. NYC,
1991.
Sex & Money. Solo show.
Wonderbar, NYC, 1992.
Photography exhibit. Group
show. Leslie Lohman Gallery,
NYC, 1993
Queer bodies. Group show,
Evergreen State College.
Olympia, WA, 1993.
Photography exhibitGroup show,
Leslie Lohman Gallery. NYC,
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Artist Galleries:
Bridges - Gay and Lesbian Fine
Art Photography -
http://bridgesgallery.com/mm/mm
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Artist Reviews:
On the August 2002 issue of
Australian's Blue Magazine,
David Mills writes:
" Blackout - Marcelo Maia's
subjects star in their own
film noir.
The Subjects in Marcelo Maia's
portraits are not to be ogled.
When their faces are depicted,
the models frequently return
the gaze of the viewer - ...
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Collections:
Schomburg Center for Research
in Black Culture, New York,
New York, USA
The Leslie-Lohman Gay Art
Foundation, New York, New
York, USA...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Marcelo Maia
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Since 1991 I have used photography as the vehicle for discourses on sexuality. Beginning with the sex and money project, the metaphoric images of gogo dancers with cash belts were used to posit a bridge between the viewer, the concept of sexuality and it's relation to money. Next in the book Prometheus, the topic transposes to sexuality and racism. I redirect the Greek myth of the creation of man from the Caucasus to his known anthropological origins in Africa. By producing sensuous portraits of African-American men, I aimed to modulate the cultural image of both God and creation from the white marble to the black skin. The trilogy on sexuality will close with a book on the topic of Sex and Power.
Certain that if art has the power to liberate people of their prejudices, I believe that self-awareness requires the analysis of sexuality. Sex has to be understood and not just looked at as tabu material or as a commodity , objectified and but not really discussed. It's time to grow up, to be able to talk openly about ourselves without fear of being labeled and dismissed.
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