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Mode’s exhibit helps AIDS benefit
The Capital Times
By: Natasha Kassulke
October 6, 1994
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Mode Theatre, In Waterloo Wisconsin, is changing its face again. This time
it celebrates and explores the nude male body in a benefit for AIDS. For
the next month, the performance space and residential gallery will be home to
Gordon Morey’s exhibit “The Male Reflection and One Woman.” The exhibit
features more than 100 oil, pastel, and sculpture pieces.
More than 3,000 people are expected to attend the “AIDS
Benefit Extravaganza,” and exhibit opening. Admission is free, but donations
will be accepter for the Rodney Scheel House, a proposed group house for people
with AIDS. The Rodney Scheel House, which breaks ground this month, will
be built on Madison’s east side and is slated for the spring, 1995 opening. The
home will be named after a local restaurant/nightclub owner who renovated the
Washington Hotel on West Washington Avenue and died of AIDS-related illnesses in
July 1990.
Morey’s
images celebrates nature and life with humor and outlandishness, but the
messages run deeper, exploring the daily challenges of people who must work and
live with AIDS. Complementing Morey’s exhibit will be Jinx Davis and
Company’s high-energy and hilarious performance of “Ms. Biffy O’Shay Meets the
Men.” Davis, an actress whose one woman weekend shows have been drawing
fans from as far away as Chicago and Minneapolis, bought the 1937 moviehouse
with her partner, Andy Pizer and remodeled the building to meet the needs of
visiting artist like Morey.