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Through captivating portraits that reflect core aspects of each individual, artist Doug Meyer celebrates the lives and accomplishments of creatives who were victims of HIV/AIDS - people such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring, Freddie Mercury, Tina Chow, and Klaus Nomi. In addition to honouring the individuals portrayed, Meyer hopes to highlight their contributions for younger generations. The portraits vary significantly in form, material, and style, and incorporate drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography. The text includes essays by Meyer and contributing writer Beth Dunlop as well as short biographies of each hero.

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Artist and designer Doug Meyer remembers figures ranging from architects Frank Israel and Alan Buchsbaum to interior designers Tice Alexander and Jay Spectre. -- Architectural Digest Each artwork, strikingly unique to its honoree, was conceptualized by Meyer to, in some way, resemble or represent an essence of the artist. Together, the collection serves as a reminder of the magnitude of the crisis ...the book, in its vibrant color and loving tributes... is as much a joyful ode to these lives and the worlds they created as it is a somber recognition of an era marked by tragedy. -- San Francisco Chronicle For artist and designer Doug Meyer, paying homage to the early victims of AIDS is more than just an honor; it's a responsibility he feels he has to today's younger generations. -- luxe.daily Interior designer and artist Doug Meyer has created 50 'portraits'--busts, statuettes, intaglios, multimedia sculptures--of creative people who died of AIDS and AIDS-related causes in the '80s and '90s. -- T, The New York Times Style Magazine Meyer wanted to create an homage to the cause: honoring creatives who lost their lives to AIDS in the '80s and '90s...Each of these people...left a mark on their artistic industry, whether that was design, music or something else...many younger people in those industries didn't know who came before them and didn't understand that there was a time when being diagnosed with AIDS was essentially a death sentence...the portraits serve as a history lesson of sorts, allowing younger individuals to be introduced to some of these heroes for the first time. -- Courier Journal (Louisville) Meyer...created three-dimensional hand-made 'portraits' of some of the earliest creatives lost to AIDS...'The book is my way of letting people know that these men and women existed, ' said Meyer. -- Elle Decor The gut punch of missing them [the heroes] is supplemented by the joy and inspiration each person contributed to our lives and culture. -- Cultured Magazine The portraits cohere into an incredibly beautiful but heart-wrenching reminder of the losses our culture suffered during the Plague Years...the wonderful, witty portraits that Meyer has created, which fill this beautifully photographed book...Heroes: A Tribute should prove valuable to people just discovering these artists and those who lived through the same times. -- A & U: America's AIDS Magazine Memorializing death...in art allows us to share it much more universally...Heroes is utterly moving. -- Modern Magazine Doug Meyer's Heroes is a gorgeous feast for the eyes and soul that not only honors the creative geniuses who died too soon, but immortalizes their work for generations to come. -- Advocate

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Doug Meyer is a conceptual artist and designer based in New York City, with work that ranges from creating site-specific spaces to curating museum exhibitions. His recent work focuses on 3D art pieces, including the sculptural portraits in Heroes: A Tribute. He has created collections of fabric, wallpaper, rugs, lighting, and tiles. Doug was named one of the most influential designers in the world by Architectural Digest France for multiple years.

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