Artist statement by Coral Short Nest by Coral Short. Photos courtesy of the artist. Description: Nest is an interactive sculpture that is about caring for our community’s cultural workers and activists. I encouraged the audience at The Hemispheric Institute Encuentros to unwind by finding my large, human-sized nest on wheels…
Category: Featured Artists
Verena Jaekel
Con Artist BS Degree in Fine Art at SUNY, Stonybrook, NY, USA.
Artist statement and photos by Tina Rice / COMBO APPS: Mobile Extreme Editing Photo from the Chicano Park iPhoneography series by Tina Rice Artist Statement by Tina Rice Tina Rice: I’m a photography/mobile based artists. Everything I do now is from my iPhone and iPad. All my traditional photographic…
Essay by writer and visual artist Jane Eaton Hamilton, Canada I’ve been studying art in Paris museums further to my certificate work in painting from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I have investigated the collections at the Musée d’Orsay, Musée Marmottan Monet, Musée de Montmartre, Centre Pompidou and…
Suzie Pindar – Dream, 21cm x 29.7cm, black edged wood frame 32.5cm x 42.5cm Endless Possibilities – a group mixed media exhibition Camden Image Gallery 174 Royal College Street, Camden, London March 8 – 20 2014 UK artist and queer woman Suzie Pindar takes part in the exhibition titles Endless…
Text & photo: Belle Ancell, Canada Amber Dawn, writer. Photo from the Primal HeArt series by Belle Ancell Artist Statement by Belle Ancell Belle Ancell: The Primal HeArt series is from a photo project I was invited to participate in out of Toronto, Canada called the 10×10 Photography Project. The…
Text and images: Melisa Ljubovich Pastuvka in Zürich (Bosnian female horse in Zürich), a self portrait by Melisa ‘Mel’ Ljubovich Artist Statement by Melisa ‘Mel’ Ljubovich Mel Ljubovich: In major parts of the Balkans being transparent and queer, despite your work and other activities, are not getting on well…
Text by Birthe Havmoeller / Feminine Moments Sif Itona Westerberg, photo by Birthe Havmoeller Danish art student Sif Itona Westerberg (above) is interested in rites and systems that create and uphold social and historical power structures. I met her at her latest exhibition Remains of Eternity in Copenhagen a few…
Becky Boston, UK.
Artist Statement and photos by Elinore Lindén Strand Close-up of No Fear, an installation by Elinore Lindén Strand, 2013. Splitting her time between Stockholm and Berlin has made Swedish visual artist Elinore Lindén Strand see the European history in a new light. Meeting people who’s grandparents fought for or against…
Artist profile originally posted at http://queerartsfestival.com.
Essay by Ji Strangeway / L.A. / 2013 Museums and history are like cemeteries. They house dead masters of the past. I want to live in the present and it is here that I create. The old art masters are embalmed in history books and pickled in the morgues of…
Photo from the series The Catalog by Goodyn Green. Goodyn Green – The Catalog at Strange Loop Gallery in New York Goodyn Green is a queer feminist photographer, born in Aalborg, Denmark 1979. She graduated as an art and history primary school teacher from N. Zahles College of Education in…
Artist statement and photos by Caitlin Rose Sweet Gay Cave, mixed media, 15’x6’, by Caitlin R. Sweet, 2012. Photo by Ty August Chance Caitlin R. Sweet: I am a conceptual craftswoman who uses the connotations of the handmade as a platform to explore our relationship to the body, sexuality, utopian…
Artist Statement and photos by Rachael Shannon
Tif Robinette, USA.
Taylor Smith: Artist statement and paintings Study For Two Women. Painting by Taylor Smith Artist Statement Taylor Smith: Within my work, I blend my own contemporary interpretation of abstraction with elements of traditional still life and portraiture. Mathematics, organic chemistry, mechanics, photography and pop culture also play a role in…
Artist statement and photos by Ange Groenwoud
Photographies and artist statement by Leah DeVun