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ADAA: The Art Show 2020

Verónica López by Verónica López
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Hugh Steers, Two Beers, 1993, oil on canvas, 60h x 56.13w in (152.4h x 142.56w cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © Estate of Hugh Steers.
Hugh Steers, Two Beers, 1993, oil on canvas, 60h x 56.13w in (152.4h x 142.56w cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York.
© Estate of Hugh Steers.

ADAA: The Art Show. February 26 – March 1, 2020. Booth B2. Park Avenue Armory. New York, NY

Hugh Steers, Floored, 1987, oil on gessoed paper, 11.1h x 15w in (28.19h x 38.1w cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © Estate of Hugh Steers.
Hugh Steers, Floored, 1987, oil on gessoed paper, 11.1h x 15w in (28.19h x 38.1w cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © Estate of Hugh Steers.

Alexander Gray Associates presents an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Hugh Steers (1962–1995). A figurative painter, the artist was diagnosed with HIV in 1987, ultimately succumbing to AIDS-related complications in 1995 at the age of 32. For the duration of his tragically short career, he created melancholy, yet radiant compositions of everyday life that documented the tragedies of the AIDS epidemic while celebrating Queer identity and desire. The Gallery’s presentation foregrounds Steers’ images of intimate moments between couples. Alluding to—but never directly addressing—the AIDS crisis, these works present viewers with ambiguous scenes of affection, companionship, and illness.

Hugh Steers, Red Couch, 1987, oil on gessoed paper, 11.1h x 15.1w in (28.19h x 38.35w cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © Estate of Hugh Steers.
Hugh Steers, Red Couch, 1987, oil on gessoed paper, 11.1h x 15.1w in (28.19h x 38.35w cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York.
© Estate of Hugh Steers.

Steers was driven to paint couples in part because of his own need for companionship. Forced to contend with deep alienation, fear, and hatred as a result of HIV, he explained, “I would like to be able to act or have someone care about me the way some of the people in my paintings act or care about each other. It’s as if painting it will make it become real.” In White Satin (1993), Steers paints a man helping another man don a white satin coat. This scene, which infuses love into the devastation of AIDS, recalls the writer Justin Spring’s assertion that the artist’s work “suggests that … there’s a complex emotional conflict going on here: beyond mere anger, a lingering desire for something transcendent; below the outer layer of bitterness, a core of romantic longing.”

Hugh Steers, Edge of the Bed, 1993, oil on canvas, 52.25h x 54.13w in (132.72h x 137.48w cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © Estate of Hugh Steers.
Hugh Steers, Edge of the Bed, 1993, oil on canvas, 52.25h x 54.13w in (132.72h x 137.48w cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York.
© Estate of Hugh Steers.

Further alluding to this core of longing, Two Beers (1993) features a couple sharing an armchair and embracing while Dressing (1987) captures a man observing his partner dress in drag. Ultimately transforming prosaic scenes and spaces into tableaux suffused with tenderness, Steers’ couples inhabit a poignant architecture of intense emotion. As the artist’s friend Julie Heffernan argues, “In a real way those characters were Hugh’s constant companions, avatars of love and friendship that every one of us needs in order to survive day-to-day.”

Hugh Steers, Dressing, 1987, oil on paper, 15h x 11.19w in (38.1h x 28.42w cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © Estate of Hugh Steers.
Hugh Steers, Dressing, 1987, oil on paper, 15h x 11.19w in (38.1h x 28.42w cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © Estate of Hugh Steers.

Symbols of love, the men in Steers’ paintings and works on paper nonetheless negotiate a complex world where they are continually forced to confront the vicissitudes of disease and their own mortality. Paintings like Two Chairs (1993) show men scrutinizing their faces for bumps or signs of lesions—indicators their immune system is compromised and HIV has developed into AIDS. Similarly, works on paper like Floored (1987), painted the same year the artist learned he was HIV positive, depict nudes sprawled corpse-like on the floor. Deeply personal, these vignettes reveal Steers’ own fears and experience as he bravely and unapologetically lived life and made art under the specter of AIDS.

Hugh Steers, Red & White Sheet, 1988, oil on gessoed paper 13.30h x 11.1w in (33.78h x 28.19w cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © Estate of Hugh Steers.
Hugh Steers, Red & White Sheet, 1988, oil on gessoed paper
13.30h x 11.1w in (33.78h x 28.19w cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © Estate of Hugh Steers.

Hugh Steers’ work was recently featured in AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism at the Museum of the City of New York, NY (2017) and Art AIDS America, curated by Jonathan Katz and Rock Hushka, at the Tacoma Art Museum, WA (2015); West Hollywood Library and One Archives Gallery and Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2015); Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA (2016); Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY (2016); and Alphawood Foundation, Chicago, IL (2016). His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2013); New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (1994); Richard Anderson, New York, NY (1992); Midtown Galleries, New York, NY (1992); Denver Art Museum, CO (1991); Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY (1988); and the Drawing Center, New York, NY (1987), among others. Steers’ work is in private and public art collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minnesota, MN; and Denver Art Museum, CO. In 1989, Steers received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship. A comprehensive monographic catalogue of Steers’ work was published by Visual AIDS in 2015.

About ADAA: The Art Show

Organized annually by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), The Art Show presents curated presentations by the nation’s leading fine art dealers, providing audiences a selection of works from the late 19th century through today.

Hugh Steers, White Satin, 1993, oil on canvas, 60.25h x 63.13w in (153.03h x 160.34w cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © Estate of Hugh Steers.
Hugh Steers, White Satin, 1993, oil on canvas, 60.25h x 63.13w in (153.03h x 160.34w cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York.
© Estate of Hugh Steers.

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