Larry Stanton: the artist who captured New York’s gay scene at a time of crisis
A new exhibition in Los Angeles celebrates the life and work of a painter who died at 37 of Aids as he tried to preserve a record of those around him
Taken too early by the Aids pandemic, the artist Larry Stanton created work for an exuberant, prodigious handful of years before dying in 1984 at age 37. Championed by David Hockney, whose work his paintings at time resemble, Stanton excelled in creating portraits of gay men that are at once guileless and penetrating.
Clearing Gallery in Los Angeles is presenting a survey of the artist’s work titled Think of Me When It Thunders, a reference to one of the last things Stanton said to his longtime lover, Arthur Lambert, while on his hospital deathbed. Trying to assuage the pain of watching his confidant and lover deteriorating, Stanton told Lambert to “think of me when it thunders.” The latter later lamented that “it doesn’t thunder every day.”
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