Anthony Goicolea

Anthony Goicolea"Across the specific differences among Goicoleas works, the artist tirelessly excavates human weakness, awkwardness, and discomfort. Toward the end, he returns again and again to his themes of adolescent sexuality, unflinching self exploration, and the contest between victims and victimizers. We are torn between the desire to witness these strivers and underdogs evolve gloriously into calm, powerful grown ups, and wanting to observe the Peter Pans as

14 x 12 inches

the photographs utilize the ParkeHarrisons’ early technique of applying pigment by hand

Gabby Laurent

32 silver gelatin plates

androgynous figures of indeterminate age float on top of and through each other in a layered composition separated by planes of Plexiglas and semi-opaque vellum paper

will not believe—don't want to believe—that such atrocities happened in America not so very long ago

february 2003

Anthony Goicolea’s third book is an amalgam of photographs and drawings

We are torn between the desire to witness these strivers and underdogs evolve gloriously into calm

I’m saying there are many

If any one of us could have seen how attractive we really were we might have made something better of our lives

And when the matter reveals itself to anyone but a surgeon