Curt McDowell

Curt McDowell worked in San Francisco from the late 1960s until his death in 1987 a period that witnessed the Summer of Love gay liberation and the onset of HIVAIDS to which he succumbed at the age of fortytwo The author of numerous films that recast the American dream of plenty in pansexual terms McDowell like so many artists of his generation indulged in the eras carnal abundance and his appetites and experiences are reflected in his work which alternates between the revealing and the puerile