Sean Fader Sugar Daddy: Dear Danielle New York: Presented By Denny Gallery New York
Sean Fader, Sugar Zaddy , 2023, Archival inkjet print, 40 x 30 in/102 x 76 cm Sean Fader Sugar Daddy: Dear Danielle New York May 19 - June 24 Opening Reception: May 19, Friday, 6 -8 pm “ Dear Danielle Steel, My name is Sean Fader. I am a queer artist and a professor at Tulane University. I am writing to you from Stove Works, an artist residency in Chattanooga Tennessee. I have been asked to produce a piece for a show at Antenna Gallery that will open as part of a multivenue triennial in New Orleans. The exhibition’s theme is sugar, and I decided to investigate the history of the sugar daddy, in particular the story of Adolph Spreckels and Alma de Bretteville Spreckels. I was immediately consumed by their story which eventually led me to you .” -Sean Fader This exhibition, Sugar Daddy: Dear Danielle , opening May 19 and running through June 24 at Denny Gallery, New York, is a culmination of the artist’s years of research into the life and in