The Brooklyn Museum holds two pieces by David Wojnarowicz in its collection: the photograph Untitled (man holding nest), 1988-89, and the screen print Democracy at Work, 1989-91.
Untitled (man holding nest), 1988-89, a gelatin silver print, was produced during a prolific period of David’s photography having just inherited the loft and darkroom of his mentor, the photographer Peter Hujar. David’s photographic work during this time earned praise from Hujar’s printer, Gary Schneider, who described David’s foray into complex photomontages like “Sex Series,” 1989, as ”masterpieces of the darkroom.”
Democracy at Work, 1989-91, a screen print on vellum, was commissioned as part of YOUR HOUSE IS MINE—a publication organized by Andrew Castrucci and edited by Nadia Coen for Bullet Space (funded by Art Matters, Artist Space, Northstar Fund, and the Andy Warhol Foundation).
David’s work was one of 29 artists whose signed posters (bound in wood, encased in lead, and fastened with metal bolts) were produced as a limited edition of 150. The series was also wheat-pasted on buildings “defining and expressing the broad and essential issue of housing on the Lower East Side.”
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