DAVID WOJNAROWICZ | PLANE CRASH

Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

"I felt tense and beautiful and vulnerable and sad. I thought of plane crashes and endings, the bloodlessness of my once loving arms, a deep sleep [or] something warm and enveloping to make me forget [...]."

- David Wojnarowicz

Spanning performance, photography, painting, sculpture, and time-based media, David Wojnarowicz’s diverse body of work is unified by an underlying political urgency and a highly personal visual symbolism. Rendered in his unmistakable graphic style, Plane Crash deploys the artist’s unique hallucinatory imagery as a metaphorical chronicle of the wreckage of contemporary American society.