Cartel para la Asociación Americana de Uniformes (AUA)
Produced in 1980, this offset engraving was created by Dom Orejudos (1933–1991), the Chicago-born artist who worked under the pseudonym Etienne. Born Dominic Orejudos to a Filipino-American family, he trained as an academic illustrator before becoming one of the most distinctive voices in American homoerotic art. Working across drawing, painting, and printmaking, Orejudos developed a visual language built around idealized masculine archetypes — uniformed figures, athletes, motorcyclists — rendered with a precision that drew equally from classical figurative tradition and mid-century commercial illustration.
This work was commissioned for the American Uniforms Association (AUA), an organization that brought together enthusiasts of military and uniform culture within the gay community during the late 1970s and 1980s. The print demonstrates Orejudos’s command of the offset medium: the flatness of the process lends a graphic clarity to the composition while reinforcing its function as both poster and signed print. At 61 × 45 cm — 76.50 × 61.50 cm framed — the format is deliberately public-facing, combining the directness of a poster with the formal intentions of a limited printed edition. The work bears a printed signature and is preserved in excellent condition, having passed through a European private collection.
Imago Dei presents this work as part of its ongoing engagement with the history of homoerotic visual culture and American printmaking of the late twentieth century — a field in which Orejudos occupies a singular position between commercial art, political community building, and fine art print tradition.
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