Amber Hawk Swanson On Her Complicated Relationship With Amber Doll

Amber Hawk Swanson reveals details from her unique, loving and complicated lesbian relationship with Amber Doll on her webpage and video stream. In 2007 Amber Hawk Swanson produced a life size doll in her own image for their collaborative art project. In the feminist art project “To Have, To Hold…

The Winners Of The 2008 Astraea Lesbian Visual Arts Fund

The winners of the 2008 Astraea Lesbian Visual Arts Fund (USA) are Jess Dunn, Elaine Gan and Amey Gee. The Astraea Lesbian Visual Arts Fund promotes the work of contemporary lesbian visual artists. Grants are awarded to artists working in an array of media including sculpture, painting, prints, mixed media…

Elisabeth Ohlson-Wallin’s New Queer Exhibitions

The Swedish queer artist and commercial photographer Elisabeth Ohlson-Wallin made the European headlines in 1998 with the exhibition “Ecce Homo”, and she has made several fine exhibitions since then. She is an artist, who focuses on life’s big and difficult questions: religion, love, sexuality, and what it means to be a…

Maxine Fine Retrospective Opens Soon

Art historian Flavia Rando, founding member of the Astraea Lesbian Visual Arts Committee, has curated a retrospective exhibition of works of art by late lesbian artist Maxine Fine (1942-2003). Maxine was one of the pioneering members of the Lesbian Art Movement in USA. Her work was published in the 1977 Lesbian issue…

"BustED" an Exhibition Celebrating The Bosom

“BustED: art about breast health” is a group show of art celebrating the lovely and erotic nature of the bosom, while reminding everyone of the way breast cancer affects our lives. Transplant (Step 1) and (Step 2) – Talia Greene The group show includes works of art by Annie Sprinkle,…

Queer Photography

Queer photographer Tammy Rae Carland, USA, has studiet lesbian beds… and they are all unmade just like my bed. It makes me feel better to know that unmade beds can be turned into fine visual memories. All it takes is a creative eye and a camera. Related Link Tammy Rae Carland’s online…

Lene Leth: Queer Mobile Computing

Lene Leth Rasmussen is a Danish designer based in Copenhagen. She is interested queer interaction design and mobile computing. Lene feels that queer subcultures need physical meeting places, however a place can’t be queerified in one go as the queer stories of a place must be heard and retold again and again before they become a…

Catherine Opie at The Guggenheim Museum

If you are planning a trip to New York this autumn, I think that a visit to Catherine Opie’s exhibition “Catherine Opie: American Photographer” at the Guggenheim Museum is a must for any lesbian. Queer photographer Catherine Opie’s mid-career retrospective gathers works from many of Opie’s well known series, starting…

Femmes of Power – Exploding Queer Femininities

 I haven’t got the book “Femmes of Power – Exploding Queer Femininities” yet, but I have read a review of the book, which I want to share with you. Read the review by Jess McCabe. “Femmes of Power” is by photographer Del LaGrace Volcano and Swedish cultural anthropologist Ulrika Dahl….

Queer Art Videos by Katarzyna Kozyra

I went to a queer seminar about body, gender & identity and art videos by polish artist Katarzyna Kozyra in Aarhus, Denmark yesterday. Tina Ravn and Rune Gade talked about queer theory and Kozyra’s art videos which can be seen in Århus Kunstbygning until October 26 2008. Kozyra is a…

Out of the Buble; Artist on Queer Travel

Lenore Chinn – “Doors at 798 Art Space (Beiging, China)”, 2008, (press photo) from “Out of the Bouble; Artists on Queer Travel” at the Femina Potens Art Gallery in San Francisco.

Being Married To a Life-size Doll

Chicago artist Amber Hawk Swanson explores a relationship with a life-size doll made in her own image.  See the video and hear Amber talk about her feminist art project “To Have, To Hold and To Violate”.

Henriette Hellstern-Kjøller on Her Paintings

I have been corresponding with Danish artist Henriette Hellstern Kjøller about her life as a lesbian artist and her art latest projects. This is what she wrote. Henriette: To use my sexuality in my artistic work is the most natural thing for me as I my life as a lesbian is a…

Just Different – A Queer Art Exhibition in Holland

From June 14 through September 21, 2008 the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen presents ‘Just Different’, an art exhibition about sexual desire, gender and identity construction in visual arts at the turn of the 21st century. It reveals an alternative lifestyles such as homosexuality and transsexuality. The Dutch title of the…

A Quote

“To represent one’s self is, after all, the artist’s job.” – Deborah Kass The quote is from the book “The Warhol Project” by Deborah Kass, 1999, Newcombe Art Gallery, ISBN 0-9668595-0-2.