Michael Harwood
Marky on 57th St.
, 1993
Photograph
20"
x 30"
For a short time in the early 1990s, New Yorkers
were treated to a series of Calvin Klein underwear
ads, created by Herb Ritts, featuring Mark Wahlberg,
and displayed on walls, phone booths, and gigantic
Times Square billboards. This frank display of male
sexuality on such a grand scale was new and
perhaps shocking to the general public. In this
photograph, the location of the advertisement
also invites tongue-in-cheek exploration of the
contradictory nature of public sexuality. The “no
turn” sign, which might indicate admonishment
to not look in that direction, is aimed directly at
the model’s underwear.
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Carol Hamoy
We Are Not All Anonymous
, 2006
Paper, acrylic gel, acrylic ink (detail)
5'
x 15' (page 3)
We Are Not All Anonymous
consists of one hundred 9”x9” collages
memorializing woman from a variety of ethnicities, sexualities,
and eras, some known to history books, others known only to their
loved ones. Written over the images are women’s names, the
phrases “We are not all anonymous!” and “Women are 53% of the
population!” dispersed intermittently throughout. The work draws
attention to women who have shaped history and whose presence
is completely overshadowed by men who have done the same.
