All of Me with All of You: LGBTQ+ Art Out of the Collection

For the first time, The Heckscher Museum of Art is exploring its collection through the lens of LGBTQ+ identities and histories. Spanning more than 150 years, the exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Victoria Munro, Executive Director of the Alice Austen House, is guest curator of the show. Artists who lived and worked on Long Island will anchor All of Me with All of You: LGBTQ+ Art Out of the Collection. Six photographs taken on Fire Island by the collective PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret French) express the artistic and personal freedoms that LGBTQ+ communities nurtured on Long Island in the first half of the twentieth century. Photographs by Huntington artist Joanne Mulberg capture the spirit of Fire Island in the 1970s and 1980s. Artworks by internationally significant figures including Marsden Hartley, Alfonso Ossorio, Betty Parsons, Alice Rahon, Robert Rauschenberg, and Emilio Sanchez are also featured, alongside new acquisitions by Amy Adler, Laylah Ali, Vanessa German, and Wardell Milan, among others. This project is made possible with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. With this generous support, the Museum will engage youth and intergenerational community members in a robust year of exhibitions and public programming highlighting and celebrating works, histories, and legacies of LGBTQ+ artists in our permanent collection.