Disabilities featured in NY art exhibits
August 17th, 2007‘A new photo exhibit explores the sex lives of the handicapped—on their own terms’ – Australian photographer Belinda Mason-Lovering presents 40 portraits of people with a wide range of mental and physical disabilities in an exhibit called “Intimate Encounters: Disability and Sexuality.” At the Museum of Sex in Manhattan through September 16. From Time Out New York.
“It began as something I just enjoyed working on,” says Mason-Lovering from her home in North Sydney. “But when I saw the positive feedback—and received such overwhelming support from the disabled community—I started to think these images might really mean something.”
‘Exhibit at Brooklyn Museum Showcases Artists With Developmental Disabilities’ – Adults from the Institute for Community living display their photographs, paintings, drawings and sculptures at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibit, called “Artistic Inspiration,” is part of an effort to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, and to change public perceptions. From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
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September 12th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Belinda Mason-Lovering’s work is truly awe-inspiring. Her representation of each model in their own provocative positions allows an overwhelming feeling of the shared vulnerability every human experiences for want of connection. To bring such a taboo subject as sex in the lives of the disabled to a very broad audience might be considered too intrusive or audacious to those who inhabit the realm of ‘normalcy’. I can see why those who have been taught throughout their lives to pity people with handicaps would be pushed somewhere between the edges of intrigue and discomfort. We can only hope they humble themselves enough to realize that the human want for love and affection is a constant.