Artist Talk: CULTURAL CONFLUENCES: the Art of Lenore Chinn

API Cultural Center and Queer Cultural Center present:

CULTURAL CONFLUENCES: the Art of Lenore Chinn
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 from at 7pm – 9pm
Admission: $5.00 – includes Museum admission | GLBT History Museum, Castro district location
4127 18th Street (between Castro & and Collingwood Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94114, USA

This evening’s program is a celebration of community and features Chinn in critical discussion with scholars and essayists Tirza True Latimer, Moira Roth and Valerie Soe.

The event is hosted by Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (publisher) and Queer Cultural Center.

About Lenore Chinn
Lenore Chinn began painting when she was growing up in San Francisco’s Richmond district, focusing on portraiture to explore the super-realistic depiction of a wide spectrum of people of color, lesbians and same sex couples. Employing a coded iconography rooted in a lesbian/gay cultural perspective. In 2011 Lenore published her first monograph titled ‘CULTURAL CONFLUENCES: the Art of Lenore Chinn’.
Chinn’s inclusion in Harmony Hammond’s Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History, the first study of American lesbian visual artists, vastly expanded her national visibility. Her portraits documenting the historical evolution of San Francisco’s queer community challenge the social conventions that currently constitute the racialized order of things. She is included in Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists published by Greenwood Press in 2007. The artist has been a founding member of Lesbians in the Visual Arts and Queer Cultural Center and is affiliated with the Asian American Women Artists’ Association.

Related links
Lenore Chinn’s website