uv cured inkjet on acrylic, 24″w x 36″h, edition of 3
This is an artwork by my husband Andrew Reach titled SHINING LIGHT from a photograph he took of me at the entrance to the Christopher Street subway station during Gay Pride in 1984.
Andrew describes the artwork as follows:
“Shining Light is a visual love letter. The light above Bruce’s head softly illuminates him like a halo, while my “whimsies” surround him, attracted to his beautiful essence. SHINING LIGHT speaks to the simple universal notion of the deep love and commitment of two men spending a life together and the homage one man pays to the other he loves so deeply.”
When Andrew was studying architecture at Pratt, he took photography classes and made me the subject of many of his photographs. Andrew became disabled from a spine disease and couldn’t continue practicing architecture and reinvented himself as a artist working in the realm of digital media. It turns out this photograph has been selected to be in a major exhibition being put on by the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve in Cleveland. Titled CONVERVERGE: LGBTQ+ which will celebrate the legacy of the LGBTQ’s community in northeast Ohio within the visual arts.
I still find it rather odd that I am now a subject of the art world and to know that thousands of people will see me when I was young. It’s hard to explain watching people looking at me on the wall. This is not the first time he has taken me to such a place. A few years ago, he made a piece called THE WONDER OF BRUCE (see below), that went on to be shown at the Butler Instituted Of American Art in Youngstown Ohio at their 74th Mid Year Exhibition.
Pigment Print on Cotton Rag, 44″w x 77″h, edition of 3
Pigment Print on Cotton Rag, 42″w x 72″h, edition of 3
Pigment Print on Cotton Rag, 36″w x 24″h, edition of 3
This photograph was taken by Andrew in 1984 while we were walking in Washington Square Park with our dog Katie.
