Alex Jovanovich

May 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Fashiona Stitch |presentBy Ada O’Higgins |Ada O’Higgins |Alex Jovanovich

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May 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Alex Jovanovich |Daniel Moldoveanu |Lesley Ma |Wes Hill

Vanessa Conte’s depraved zinesAmy: Thrill to Live, by Vanessa Conte, New York: Random Man Editions, 2023. 26 pages. THE MARQUIS DE SADE rained hell upon his Justine, a fictional naïf whose virtuousness was relentlessly “tested” by every stripe of abuse and sexual atrocity the malveillante French author could dream up. Since her appearance more than two centuries ago, the character has spawned countless progeny.

Mar 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Alex Jovanovich |Rachel Wetzler |Jan Tumlir |Clifford Owens

Alex Jovanovich introduces a portfolio by Sal SalandraTHERE IS NOTHING MORE EXHILARATING than being a pervert. The seventy-eight-year-old leather daddy and lapsed Catholic Sal Salandra understands this very well. The self-taught artist’s mesmerizing embroideries, which he refers to as “thread paintings,” are gleeful concoctions of pop culture, autobiography, and sadomasochistic gay sex. His Bernini–cum–Gene Bilbrew mise-en-scènes, fastidiously and libidinously conceived, are divinely inspired.

Oct 1, 2023 | artforum.com | Alex Jovanovich

Alex Jovanovich introduces a portfolio by Peter McGough PETER McGOUGH’S fabulous, fanciful, and unrepentantly faggy figuration looks like little else within the landscape of representational queer painting today.

Mar 31, 2023 | artforum.com | Alex Jovanovich