There is a wonderful group show opening on gaypride weekend, August 7, 2011, from 1 – 6 pm. It promises to be even better than the past 6 gay/lesbian expositions at the ABCTreehouse with new and favorite artists.
Category: Queer art
It is with pleasure that Femina Potens announces that they have secured a new headquarters for their organization. Femina Potens will still be conducting in San Francisco.
During the Baltic Pride 2011 you could visit a queer art show titled ‘Family’ at MÄRZ project space in Tallinn, Estonia. ‘Family’ is curated by Jaanus Samma and Anna-Stina Treumund. Anna-Stina has send me photos from the opening of ‘Family’.
The National Queer Arts Festival’s annual art exhibition opens at SOMarts Gallery in San Francisco June 4, 2011. The theme of the exhibtion is QIY – how to do queer it yourself!
Baltic Pride 2011 takes place Monday, June 6 to Saturday, June 11, 2011 in Tallinn, Estonia. The Baltic Pride invites you to a week full of cultural events with film screenings, dance performance and art exhibitions.
A soul-damning homophobic / heterophobic animation sure to ignite reluctant cardiovascular jubilation in even the most hate-filled, anti-loving of hearts made by Katie Bush
‘Untold Stories’ is a queer group exhibition curated by Rebeka Põldsam, Airi Triisberg and Anders Härm.
In this video Catherine Opie discusses how she teaches ‘New Topographics’ (photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape).
“Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” was on view at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, from October 30 through February 13, 2011. Jonathan Katz, co-curator of Hide/Seek talks about works by queer artists Catherine Opie, Lucas Samaras, Deborah Kass, and Christopher Makos.
In his introduction to the Hide/Seek show Jonathan talks about knowledge and acknowledgement of homosexuality and queerness in American portraiture.
Art is a catch-all phrase for intentional, non-linear expression and representation. It allows us share quieted and suppressed voices, sister secrets, and rages that might not be allowed in our geographic community, but slink past public scrutiny to whisper solidarity to another heart we’ve never met…
Photographs are often seen as real, i.e. documenting life and portraying what is on the image as the truth, but in reality it is a lie. Photography is the most deceptive of the arts.
Vernisage / opening March 17 at 19:00: Studio vortex 1 / Dorothée Smith / Tom Pope at Atelier de Visu, Marseille 6e, France.
Sydney Mardi Gras is back again. The Mardi Gras Gallery runs through March 5, 2011. It features a queer art show with by local and international artists. Kudos Gallery presents ‘Grace’ by Tina Fiveash.
We are not told to go to the wild American west, but to Altona, west of Melburne, Australia to see: GOWEST Contemporary Art Exhibition
Friday, 28th January to Sunday, 13th February 2011 at The Joel Gallery, Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre.
Dear friends and colleagues,
If you’re in Calgary [Canada] in January, I would be charmed by your attendance in 2 new shows of my work, that I think will be really quite fun. …
Today I have asked gay male artist Jason Woodson and queer designer and lesbian Jan Morley for their reaction to the censorship of their queer artworks at GFEST 2010 visual arts exhibition at InterChange Studios, Hampstead Town Hall in London
Box, vulva, front bottom, cunt, fanny, pussy, cave, cloister, ring, nook, notch, slit, vent, wound, circle, chink, cranny, gash, beaver, crack, quim, fig …
GFEST 2010 Visual Arts Exhibition (a censored group exhibition) presenting contemporary queer art held at InterChange Studios, Hampstead Town Hall, London, UK, Mon 8 to Fri 19 Nov 2010 was met with a team of second team censors at the town hall.
A brief explanation of the cultural issues at play in the recent controversy over the queer Hide/Seek show at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C by Marlene Hoeber