Vulvae meet Paper meet Scissors

Collage by Ann Antidote for the exhibition Vulvae meet Paper meet Scissors Vulvae meet Paper meet Scissors – A collage of (queer) graphical collaborations With Ann Antidote, Sadie Lune, Sissi Ário, Jenny One. March and April 2015 at Other Nature, Mehringdamm 79, 10965 Berlin, Germany. Mon-Tue: 12h–18h, Wed-Sat 12h-18h Collage…

California: Alternative Press Expo – Queer Cartoonists Panel

Press release via Queer Cultural Center, October Newsletter  Queer Cartoonists Panel w/ Justin Hall, Maureen Burdock, Gene Guilmette, Sara Lautman, Lonnie Mann, Matt Wobensmith, and Rick Worley October 5, 4:15pm Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason, 2 Marina Blvd., SF, USA $10 The Queer Cartoonists Panel is back for its 11th not-so-straight…

Sydney: Kitchen Sink and Other Domestic Disturbances

Press Release by Anne Bentley Anne Bentley & Meggs Yeo – cousins alone together for the first time in: Kitchen Sink and Other Domestic Disturbances 7 – 17 May, 2014 Sheffer Gallery 38 Lander Street Darlington, Sydney 2008 (02) 9310 5683 Wednesday – Saturday 11AM – 6PM Opening with a…

Suzie Pindar – Endless Possibilities

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…

Hannah Höch at Whitechapel Gallery, London

Eisler Curator and Head of Curatorial Studies, Daniel F. Herrmann, introduces Hannah Höch at the Whitechapel Gallery. The Hannah Höch exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery runs through March 23 2014. The exhibition bringing together over 100 works from major international collections, the exhibition examines Höch’s extraordinary career from the 1910s to…

Jeanne Mammen

Slideshow of early works by Jeanne Mammen, Germany Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) watercolorist, painter, printmaker was born in Berlin, grew up in Paris where she got her fine arts education. She lived most of her adult life in Berlin. Jeanne Mammen is know for her graphics, including nude and semi-nude female…

Are You My Mother? a Graphic Novel by Alison Bechdel

KQED’s The Writers’ Block: Alison Bechdel: Are You My Mother? Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition (May 1, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0618982507 ISBN-13: 978-0618982509 A video by Alison Bechdel about the process of making a graphic novel

Nicole Eisenman: Woodcuts, Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes

Gallery hopping with James Kalm, who captured some video of the opening of Nicole Eisenman: Woodcuts, Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes (May 24 – June 30, 2012) at Leo Koenig Inc. New York, USA. Video by James Kalm Related Link Another video by James Kalm: Nicole Eisenman New Paintings at LEO KOENING…

Lesbian Art Herstory – Jeanne Mammen

Weimar – Jeanne Mammen by f.fiorellino Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) watercolorist, painter, printmaker was born in Berlin, grew up in Paris where she got her fine arts education, and she lived most of her adult life in Berlin. “Working in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) produced graphics,…

Drawing on Experience by Caroline Smith

Caroline Smith, Drawing on Experience, Tate Modern – 27 June 2009 from Oriana Fox on Vimeo. Camerawork: Richard Canham & Francesca Ungaro. Drawing on Experience by Caroline Smith Caroline Smith’s homage to Bobby Baker’s ‘Drawing on a Mother’s Experience’ (1988) involved the divulging of other people’s eating secrets, spilling and…

Jerusalem: INANNA by Liliana Kleiner

Press release by Liliana Kleiner Print from the series Inanna by Liliana Kleiner INANNA – 12.01.2012 – 09.02.2012 at Antea, a Space for Women’s Art at Kol Ha-Isha in Jerusalem “INANNA – SHE DESTROYS WHAT IS FORBIDDEN TO DESTROY. SHE CREATES WHAT IS FORBIDDEN TO CREATE” Inanna is the ancient…

Cape Town: Isilumo Siyaluma, a Queer Solo Show by Zanele Muholi

Isilumo siyaluma is a Zulu expression that can be loosely translated as “period pains/ periods pain”. Additionally, there is an added meaning in the translation that there is something secretive in and about this blood/“period in time.”
At one level, my project deals with my own menstrual blood, with that secretive, feminine time of the month that has been reduced within Western patriarchal culture as dirty.

Zanele Muholi: Isilumo Siyaluma – Periods of Pain

Isilumo siyaluma, zulu expression which means period pains, as we continue to live and survive in troubled times as black lesbians in South Africa and within the continent. Visual artist Zanele Muholi explains her queer art project “Isilumo siyaluma” to Toxic Lesbian, Madrid, Spain. Related Links Zanele Muholi’s online portfolio…

Dadaist Artist Hannah Höch

Art Herstory: German bisexual artist Hannah Höch (1889-1978) is best known for her photomontages, though she also made drawings and paintings. Between 1912 and 1920, she studied art at the Kunstgewerbeschule Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts) and the Unterrichtsanstalt des königlichen Kunstgewerbemuseums (School of the Royal Museum of Applied…