EXHIBITIONS

The Gay Rub is a transportable exhibit that is ideal for universities and community galleries. The Gay Rub educates and creates conversation about GLBT history and historic figures. A special booklet accompanies the exhibition with information on each rubbing displayed to help contextualize each rubbing’s importance and history. Viewers can take the booklet with them to read on their own and research further.

Steven Reigns is a sought after lecturer and writing workshop leader (Yale, Antioch, Rollins College, UCLA’s Hammer Museum, University of Central Florida, One Archives, Stonewall Library). Exhibits of The Gay Rub can also have an accompanying artist talk or writing workshop focused on identity, cultural history, memory, and permanency.Press Inquiries

Comments on the exhibition:

Queerty

“A jaw-dropping collection of historical imagery, rendered in the unique tactile grain of black wax on paper.”

Edge Media Network Boston

…amazing exhibit and incredible artist.

Windy City Times

“…most concentrated and most detailed collection in the world.”

The Advocate

An Exhibition of Gay Rubbings Leaves a Lasting Impression

The St. Louis Post Dispatch, August 2015

With fabric and crayon, man makes impression on gay history

Project Muse, Fall, 2015

A Queer Dialogue on The Gay Rub


PREVIOUS SHOWINGS

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, The nation’s largest LGBT Archive Los Angeles, February 2014

Loyola Marymount University, premier Catholic university rooted in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions, Los Angeles, CA, March 2014

Rainbow Shift, The Montleban, Los Angeles, CA, December 204

Appalachian State University, Smith Gallery, comprehensive, public, coeducational university Boone, NC, January 2015

Webster University, Cecille R Hunt Gallery, university gallery providing professionally curated exhibitions of contemporary art for the academic community and broader St. Louis area public. St. Louis, MO, August 2015

University of South Florida, Center Gallery, Tampa, FL October 2018

Loyola Marymount University, premier Catholic university rooted in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions, Los Angeles, CA, October 2019

Inquiries

Parties interested in hosting The Gay Rub, please contact us.