Sign Paintings: PLAYPEN,
HAREM,
Eros 1,
capri,
PLAYGROUND
2025
12 x 18 x 2 inches each
watercolors of gay adult theater marquee signs from Samuel Delaney's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, 1999
These watercolor paintings reproduce marquee signs from gay adult movie theaters documented in Samuel Delany's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999), a seminal book from the artist’s youth. The theaters, once fixtures of queer public life in New York, have all since closed. The signs are rendered in watercolor and glitter, mediums associated with the hand, impermanence, and queer culture.