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DESCRIPTION:Apr 22 - May 30\, 2026\nFarm animals were Peter Hujar’s first
  subjects. The photographer’s early years were spent with his Ukrainian 
 mother and grandparents on a farm in central New Jersey\, which exposed hi
 m to the emotionality of the natural universe. Decades before his lens mov
 ed between nocturnal vagabonds in the East Village and celebrities like Di
 ana Vreeland\, William Burroughs\, and Fran Lebowitz\, the young man reali
 zed the power of his eye. He could monumentalize any subject\, even if it 
 was an aloof cow or a dilapidated shack. The art dealer Gracie Mansion\, w
 ho gave Hujar his final exhibition—a year before his AIDS-related death 
 in 1987\, at age 53—agrees that his gaze was revelatory. “When you loo
 k at his photograph of a blanket crumbled on the back of a chair\,” she 
 tells me\, “you realize that it is actually a portrait of that blanket.
 ” Ortuzar remounts “Peter Hujar: The Gracie Mansion Show” exactly fo
 ur decades after that final show went up in Mansion’s gallery. The 70 ph
 otographs\, installed to the artist’s specifications in a two-row grid a
 t the tiny Alphabet City storefront\, now occupy the Tribeca gallery’s s
 oaring walls in the same grid formation.
LOCATION:Ortuzar Projects\, 9 White St\, New York\, NY 10013\, United State
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SUMMARY:Peter Hujar: The Gracie Mansion Show
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 e-mansion-show
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