Queer feminist artist Mickalene Thomas discusses her work ‘Portrait of Mnonja’. Thomas explains her inspirations for the painting and the role that performance plays in her practice.
Category: Painting
Queer Portraits (#queerportraits) by Sarah Jane Moon 2 to 14 November 2019 at The Gallery, Downstairs at The Department Store, 248 Ferndale Rd, London, SW9 8FR, UK. Opening hours: 10.00 – 17.00 daily.
Mettersi a nudo / Being Naked by Lupe Ficara is on diplay November 15-17, 2019 at Nuovo Armenia, via Livigno 5, Milan.
Video (2:46): a walk through Harmony Hammond: Inappropriate Longings at the opening in April 2018. A video by Art Fuse.
Video (2:22): a promotional video about the exhibition Harmony Hammond – Inside The White Cube, 12 September 2019 – 3 November 2019, at White Cube Bermondsey in London.
Sarah Jane Moon: Queer Portraits Nov 2, 2019 – Nov 14, 2019 at The Gallery in The Department Store, Brixton, London, UK. A full colour catalogue of the work will accompany the show.
Just Love, September 14, 2019 – December 15, 2019 at ZAK Center for Contemporary Art, Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, Germany. This is an exbibition with works by six queer artists, including painter Martina Minette Dreier.
Video (14:20): Sarah Jane Moon addresses issues of LGBTQI identity and visibility within portraiture and her own recent portrait commissions of LGBTQI couples.
Harmony Hammond. Preview: Wednesday 11 September 2019. September 12, 2019 – November 3, 2019 at White Cube / White Cube Bermondsey, London UK
Henriette Hellstern – Das Narrenhaus, solo exhibition at Gallery NB, Sankt Mathias Gade 14, Viborg, Denmark.
Opening: August 25, 2019. Dates: August 26 – September 22, 2019.
Video (3:03): Jessica Sabogal’s massive murals are spreading hope and resistance across the USA.
Janet Cooling: 1978-1982, May 31 – July 3, 2019 at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York.
Queer feminist artist is Roxana Halls’ paintings are on display in the lower level gallery space. The gallery invites you to celebrate Birmingham Pride weekend with them where they will be serving champagne on Saturday and Sunday May 25-26 between 12-16.00 in the gallery.
Harmony Hammond: Materia, Witness, Five Decades of Art, March 3 to September 15, 2019 at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA.
The first Lotte Laserstein exhibition outside Berlin comes with a catalogue: Lotte Laserstein. Face to Face. (Prestel Verlag, 2018).
Video slideshow (5:16) with paintings by artist and lesbian Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993).
Video (5:52): ‘Sleep Rock’ is the first solo exhibition in the UK by New York-based artist Sadie Benning.
Threesome
The Gallery, Liverpool, UK
November 4 – December 2, 2018
Threesome presented by DuoVision as part of Homotopia Festival 2018, November 4 – December 2, 2018 at The Gallery, 41 Stanhope St, Liverpool, UK. Artist talk and opening: November 4, 2018.
Video (1:01:56): in her lecture Christina Rosenberger, author of Drawing the Line: The Early Work of Agnes Martin, examines the arc of Agnes Martin’s early career.