With changing displays featuring the work of LGBTQ+ artists here in NYC, The Sugar Daddy hopes to spotlight the creativity of our diverse community. Works by the artists are on loan to The Sugar Daddy studio, and available for sale. We encourage gifts to the artists through their preferred payment services (listed below).

These artists have graciously agreed to populate our walls with their inspiration, and hopefully inspire you as you wait for your service.

David Lavine

On view Apr 2024 - Jun 2024

Instagram: @david_lavine_collage
Venmo: @David-Lavine-2

David’s collages are one-of-a-kind works on paper, hand-cut with scissors and assembled with archival tape and glue. There is no scanning, reprinting or any type of digital manipulation. All printed matter is fair game: textbooks, posters, magazines, catalogs, coloring books, maps, comic books, art books, and so on. Working from a quarry of several thousand cut elements, formal relationships serve as a starting point for each collage; eventually narrative threads appear as disparate elements begin to relate. Unique in the cut-and-paste world, these collages with their intricate, dynamic compositions of interlocking elements, their predominant sourcing from printed graphic works, and their combinations often resulting in darkly comic, pseudo-violent and homoerotic storytelling all make the body of work a spectacular standout. Recent work includes colored pencil drawings based on collages.