Jimmy Wright – Bathhouse, Meatpacking District and the Dream Cards exhibition catalog

Contributed by Norman Hathaway


Photo: Norman Hathaway. License: All Rights Reserved.

Bathhouse, Meatpacking District and the Dream Cards. New York Underground 1973–90 was a solo exhibition by Jimmy Wright, held June 3–July 15, 2016, at Corbett vs Dempsey gallery, Chicago. The exhibition catalog has 136 pages and measures 9½ × 12½ in.

This work charts the secretive subculture of gay bathhouses and clubs, as well as the seedier – and more colorful – side of street life on the lower East Side. An insightful observer of human behavior, engaged with the scene’s action himself, Wright was the fascinated documentarian of a fleeting, often extremely erotic scene. By the 1980s he turned this attention inward, to his dream-life, which he religiously charted in sketches and annotations on what he called dream-cards.   

Photo: Norman Hathaway. License: All Rights Reserved.


Photo: Norman Hathaway. License: All Rights Reserved.


Photo: Norman Hathaway. License: All Rights Reserved.


Photo: Norman Hathaway. License: All Rights Reserved.


Photo: Norman Hathaway. License: All Rights Reserved.


Photo: Norman Hathaway. License: All Rights Reserved.

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