Frederick Weston (1946-2020) was born on this day in Memphis, Tennessee. Weston was an artist, poet, activist and menswear designer who called New York City home for nearly fifty years. In March 2023, Gordon Robichaux will present our second solo exhibition dedicated to Weston’s work. He presented solo exhibitions at Ortuzar Projects (in collaboration with Gordon Robichaux) in 2021 and at Gordon Robichaux and the Ace Hotel in New York in 2019. His mid-career retrospective, ‘For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When All You Ever Needed Was the Blues’ was organized by the Rankin Art Gallery, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan in 2011. He performed lectures and readings for Visual AIDS as well as at Gordon Robichaux; Artists Space; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Weston’s work was included in numerous group exhibitions including ‘Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Ways Forward’ Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (curated by Nayland Blake); Parker Gallery; The Modern Institute; La Galleria, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club; The Leslie Lohman Museum; and Gordon Robichaux. Weston’s work is held on the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago and has been reviewed in The New York Times and The New Yorker. A book-length conversation between the artist and acclaimed author Samuel R. Delany was published by Visual AIDS in 2021, as the seventh volume in the DUETS series. #FrederickWeston @frederickweston @visual_aids