🩻 🐺”In a nation polarized over social and moral questions, international institutions, immigrant rights, gay marriage and celebrity divorce, taxes on inheritance, sex education for U.

S. minors and African adults, and where popular opinion is often evenly divided, fear remains the most effective bond...”—David Velasco In “Monsters in the Closet,” originally published in our July / August 2004 issue, David Velasco looks at recurring symbols in David Altmejd’s practice. Velasco dials-in on the figure of the werewolf, and scrutinizes how Altmejd evokes a mass cultural conception of werewolves that overlaps with a mainstream understanding of Gay men. Ultimately, Velasco highlights how Altmejd’s visceral, creepy sculptures manage to exist as predominantly hopeful, despite the unease they inspire.—Read now on ARTPAPERS.org David Altmejd is speaking in Atlanta on (the ❄️🌨️ rescheduled date of) Monday, Feb. 2 at Georgia State University as part of the Welch Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Center. Kopleff Recital Hall, 5:30–6:45 PM @gsu_artdesign @gsuarts This event is free and open to the public. 📘Links to this text and more are accessible via the link in the @artpapers bio📗 . . . Installation detail: David Altmejd, “The Lovers,“ 2004 [Image courtesy of the artist and Andrea Rosen Gallery]