HYPERALLERGIC
By Sarah Rose Sharp
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| Detail view from PULSE Nightclub: 49 Elegies by John Gutoskey (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) |
YPSILANTI, Mich. — Elegies often come in the form of poetry, and are a time-honored form of lamentation, used as a method of mourning the dead. It makes intuitive sense, then, that print artist John Gutoskey seized upon this idea to create “visual elegies,” in the form of 49 unique monoprints, as a way of processing the Pulse nightclub shooting, an attack by a murderous gunman on a gay club in Orlando, Florida, that claimed the lives of 49 victims and wounded 53 others. The exhibition is also replete with Catholic imagery — a nod to Gutoskey’s personal religious background — and Buddhist motifs, among the more abstract or pagan symbolism. [
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| Detail view from PULSE Nightclub: 49 Elegies |
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| PULSE Nightclub: 49 Elegies, installation view |
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| Artist John Gutoskey with the installation, prior to the meditation gathering on June 12, the anniversary of the massacre. |
