He arrived from Detroit in 1973, aspiring to enter the fashion world, but he retired his dream after encountering, as a Black man, stifling racism in the industry. Before then he’d long existed on the margins of New York. Weston’s art finally received critical attention. His cousin Denise Weston said the cause was complications of bladder cancer.
21 at his apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
Frederick Weston, a belatedly recognized New York artist who inhabited the cramped apartments of the city’s single-room occupancy hotels for decades, hermetically creating meticulous collages exploring the male body and Black queerness, died on Oct.
