Call Senator Jesse Helms…Tell him I can teach him how to swallow
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Donald Moffett. New York: Wessel O’Connor / Simon Watson, 1991. Offset. 4 ½ x 5 ¾ in.
Exhibition card for Gran Fury founder Donald Moffett’s exhibitions at Wessel O’Connor and Simon Watson galleries in New York in 1991.
This card, making fun of the homophobic and AIDSphobic Senator Jesse Helms and listing his office phone number so attendees could call him. Related pieces in the exhibition read “Call the U.S. Supreme Court 1 (202) 479-3000. Ask five of the nine judges if they’re getting any,” and “Call the White House I (201) 456-1414. Tell Bush we’re not all dead yet.”
A superb artwork encouraging viewers to become activists and ridiculing the powerful homophobic politicians at the helm of the federal government.
Near fine.