Jonathan Weinbergis a painter and art historian. He is the author of Male Desire: the Homoerotic in American Art; Fantastic Tales: the Photography of Nan Goldin (with Joyce Robinson, curator); Ambition and Love in Modern American Art; and Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley and the First-American Avant-Garde. He co-edited with Diana Linden and Alejandro Anreus the anthology, The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere. He has taught at Bennington College, Cooper Union, and Yale University and he is currently a Visiting Critic in the Graduate Print Department at the Rhode Island School of Design. A mid-career retrospective of Weinberg’s paintings, curated by Jonathan Katz, will be on view at the Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation in New York in March 2010. Weinberg’s paintings can be seen on his website: www.jonathanweinberg.com.
1 Deviant 1: Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman) acrylic on panel with gold leaf
8" x 10”
2009
2 Deviant 2: Senator Larry Craig acrylic on panel with gold leaf
8" x 10”
2009
3 Deviant 3: Self-Portrait acrylic on panel with gold leaf
8" x 10”
2009
4 Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (Yellow)
acrylic on canvas
48" x 36”
2003
5 Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (Orange) acrylic on canvas
36" x 48”
2003
