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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 2002)
V 2Q.2QÛ2 D E w R a «0» S * IO »# IV » w •»« «Jr l N i i y S p ............... ' ¥ ................ says Leibowitz, who "did a fag® foggy painting as a gift for a friend and liked it.... It was filled with good karma and positive thoughts— haven’t been beating myself up lately.” It is somehow com forting being sumxinded by faggy faggies and btxxn booms, especially when the colors are having so much fun together. The title is Cary Leibowitz is the new millennium’s Andy Warhol reminiscent of what, shall we say, rather sensi tive boys used to be teased with back in junior high. No one knows this better than Leibowitz, who dubbed himself Candyass back in 1988 (a ick of highbrow art? Then run, don’t nickname that stuck with patrons and critics walk, to New York gay artist Cary alike for years) when he learned that was the Leibowitz’s exhibit through Jan. 11 at moniker one of his friends was assigned in his Soundvision, 625 N.W. Everett St. #108. more formative years. The show is titled faggy faggy boom boom, “He later gave me a rubber stamp,” remem which, says gay gallery bers Leibowitz, “and 1 owner TJ Norris, “sounds started using it as a sig like a carnival ride. And nature ’cause my work in some ways it is." just needed that pretty Leibowitz has been little red in the lower- doing solo shows in New right comer. Then 1 York and around the started to shew and it world for 13 years, but all took off. Weird, this is the first time his huh? 1 told people it work has been seen in was late 20th century Portland. “1 was never gay dada.” invited," the 39-year old Along with the laments in a recent faggy show, Leibowitz e-mail to Just Out. sent along some of It’s in keeping with his “multiples”— his character. Leibowitz manufactured copies has a wonderfully well- of his work you can earned reputation for buy and take home being pathetic and with you. There are maudlin— the gay, Jew white shopping bags ish, victimized slacker with “Sad Aint Bad” artist of a new genera in all caps and rain tion. The work is coats with “Liza Min undeniably Warhol- Soundvision displays faggy faggy boom boom nelli for President” emblazoned across the esque, which isn’t surpris- t h ^ h j a i i . "l'l ing. Norris visited the back (in a variety of artist at home, noting he has “the biggest col colors and, might we add, perfect for the rainy lection of original Andy Warhols I’ve ever seen winter‘season). outside of a museum." “When 1 was 10,” Leibowitz admits, “before I The exhibit consists of a series of paintings knew what ‘gay’ was, I wrote to Liherace and that all carry the same text in a similar style Liza Minnelli because I didn’t have any friends but different colors. They hang around the and wanted to get mail.” front room at Soundvision, slightly tilted with Taking up one whole comer of the back of industrial-size silver nails. the gallery are a stack of bright pink garbage “I made a decision to make just faggy faggy can/umbrella stands (you decide) with the boom boom paintings for TJ at Soundvision,” bold, yellow words “Gain! Wait! Now!” on one side and a big, blown-up photo of a chubby, 13- year-old Leibowitz in a white suit (looking a lot like he’s enduring his bar mitzvah). The stand out piece, though, is the white car dashboard shade with big pink letters that read, "Please don’t steal my radio, I’m Queer.” Norris couldn’t be happier with the response he s seen so far. “Everyone who’s come in here has either laughed or smiled or said this makes them feel good.. .his work is inherently academ ic [butj the lighter side of academic art.” Soundvision is open from 2 to 6 p.m. Fri days and Saturdays or by appointment. Get faggy with Gary Leibowitz It’s hip to be square (dancing] G ay and lesbian square dance club Rosetown Ramblers will celebrate its 20th anniver- sary with a special night of dancing and festivities Jan. 4 at the Portland Metro Club, 618 S.E. Alder St. According to president Karin Kel ley, “the club hopes to reconnect with the many dancers who joined the Rose town Ramblers at one time or another over the past two decades but whose participation has lapsed.” The evening will include a Rusty Squares hour early on for the out-of-prac tice. “ Maybe it’s been years since you square danced,” says Kelley, “but it’s like riding a bike; you never really forget Rosetown Ramblers celebrate 20 years of “ do-sa-do” Jan. 4 how to do it.” The celebration will continue with a full- in a long-term lesbian relationship; Julianne fledged square dance under the direction of Moore—already winning awards for her portrayal world-famous Canadian caller Anne of a smothered 1950s housewife in TxJd Haynes’ Uebelacker. Afterward the Ramblers’ Far from Heaven plays another smothered 1950s monthly country western dance will com housewife (though a far different type); and mence with DJ Crystal. Nicole Kidman plays the 1920s Virginia Woolf. The Ramblers meet every Wednesday for Already named Best Film of 2002 by the club nights and dance lessons and on the first National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, Saturday of the month for square and country The Hours has been nominated for seven G old western dances. They also sponsor a monthly en Globes, including Best Motion Picture gay and lesbian roller-skating party at Oaks Park. Drama, Best Actress in a Drama (both Streep The 20th anniversary “do-sa-do” goes from and Kidman), Best Supporting Actor (Ed Har 6 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Tickets are $5 to $8. For ris), Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best more information, call 503-622-1525 or visit Original Score. www.rosetownramblers.com. The Golden Globes, in fact, proved to be as queer-friendly as the dishy Julianne Moore this year with four nominations for Far from Heaven, including Moore for Best Actress in a Drama. our holiday purchase becomes a gift to Camp Starlight as well as your special someone when you mention former Empress Poison Waters’ name at gay-owned ollywcxxJ Theatre, gift shop Radiance through Dec. 24. 4122 N.E. Sandy Just make your selection from the store’s Blvd., does gay Port array of merchandise, including glassware, land a service in showing cards, soaps, ornaments, scented and unscent the 1991 re-release of ed candles (you can dip your own!) and wall Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus sconces, step up to the counter and tell own on the big screen from Scantily clad ers Mark Tynan and Wally Schmidt that Poi Dec. 20 to 26. gladiators and a son sent ya, and they’ll donate 10 percent of Yes, it’s brawny gladia restored homo your purchase to the camp dedicated to chil tors dressed in skirts fight scene in Spartacus dren affected by HIV/AIDS. ing against oppression, but Tynan says he "hopes that the endeavor will also adding to the homo hook is the “bath raise a lot of money for a worthwhile cause.” scene” that was censored and snipped out of Radiance is located at 1902 N.E. Broadway. the original 1960 release. In it Laurence Olivier tries to seduce his slave boy, played by Tony Curtis— try not to notice that he’s mid dle-aged. Do try to pay attention to the sound in the bath scene, which was lost and t doesn’t open in had to be dubbed Portland until mid- for the new release January, but the buzz 30 years later. is already out on the You’ll hear an even new film The Hours, an older Tony Curtis adaptation of gay writer and one Anthony Michael Cunningham’s Hopkins, whose Pulitzer-winning novel voice replaces the about three lesbian (or deceased Olivier’s. lesbian-leaning) women You don’t find of different eras con this kind of overt nected by Virginia homoeroticism Woolf’s beautiful 1925 much between th'e novel Mrs. Dalloway. 1920s and the All three of the lead 1970s, kids, so women in the star- hightail it to the studded ensemble cast are Hollywood. j n being whispered about for Oscar nominations, as is Compiled by director Stephen Daldry L isa B radshaw (Billy Elliot). Meryl Streep Yet another great queer movie hauling in awards: and M arie plays a modem bisexual The Hours packs an emotional wallop F leischmann — Give the gift of radiance Y The Hours is coming Gay gladiators H
