Video: Catherine Opie: American Photographer by Guggenheim. September 26, 2008 – January 7, 2009 you could see a big retrospective exhibition by queer American photographer Catherine Opie at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In this video from the exhibition she is speaking of her “Surfers” and “Icehouses” series.
‘I think my photographic vision is coming into focus just as I’m coming into myself and submitting all of my being to all possibilities wherever they may come. Artistically at a crossroad and committing myself to producing images that present the perverse, the destructive, the sexual, the eroticized and ultimately the beauty of life and women bodies.
Sif Itona Westerberg (1985) is a Copenhagen based artist studying at the Funen Art Academy, Denmark. She Works mainly with sculptures, story telling, claymation, stop motion and animation.
The Pride in Art Society presents the 2010 Queer Arts Festival QUEERTOPIA which runs July 27 until August 14, 2010 at The Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre in downtown Vancouver, Canada
Here is a video about the annual exhibition of the National Queer Arts Festival in California June 2010:
Justin Hoover takes us on a walk through ‘Chronotopia’ a queer group exhibition at SOMArts.
I think that it is time for a bit of storytelling. I created Feminine Moments in 2003, because I felt that the world – especially the lesbian and queer communities – needed a coherent body of resources about contemporary art made by lesbians and queer female artists.
Naughty but Nice – a gay group exhibition, August 1, 2010 to September 12, 2010, at The ABC Treehouse, Amsterdam, Holland.
Artist Statement by Jewlia Eisenberg. Photo: AnMarie Rodgers
For years I have assumed that famous American painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was bisexual. Now I am not so sure any more because, I can’t find any reliable souces about her female friends being her girlfriends
Erin Smith, Australia: ‘My work is created from letters extracted from journals of automatic writing then digitally printed and hand drawn with archival ink onto paper.
The queer Swedish art group Gardet: Kajsa Boklund, Elinore Lindén Strand, Frida Gustavsson, Julia Nilsson and John Erlandsson will be presenting their latest works of art durring the Stockholm Pride 2010.
Photographer Anne Bentley invites you to visit the groupe exhibition Picture This 2010 photography prize exhibition from 17-29 July: 7 days a week 10am-10pm at Brunswick Street Gallery’s, Melburne Australia.
The ‘Faces and Phases’ series of black and white portraits by Zanele Muholi focuses on the commemoration and celebration of black lesbians’ lives.
The project, I am working on now, is about text and photography. I want to see how they fit together; contrast each other or complement each other. Sometimes I photograph words, sometimes I write my words into the photograph, and sometimes I put them up next to each other.
Queer Arts Festival, Vancouvers multi-diciplinary Festival Celebrating Queer art and artists, July 27 – August 14 at the Roundhouse, Vancouver, Canada.
A video is about opening of Leonor Fini retrospective exhibit at The Bunkamura Museum in Tokyo, Japan in 2005. Paintings on loan from Weinstein Gallery in San Francisco are highlighted. Leonor Fini (1908-1996) born in Buenos Aires, grew up in Italy and lived and worked as a surrealist painter in Paris since app. 1932 until her death in 1996.
Irish designer and bisexual Eileen Gray (1878-1976) has designed furniture, rugs and lacquered screens, which now sells for millions of Euros. She was post modern before the word was invented.
Sauna Obscura – floating sauna, camera, artwork, experience Sauna Obscura CANCELLED We are sorry to inform you that Sauna Obscura in Töölöönlahti ssummer 2010 is cancelled due to unexpected sick leave. Next chance to enjoy Sauna in Sauna Obscura is next summer in Turku, European Capital of Culture…
G. Carl Rutberg, excecutive director of Alice Austen House introduces the museum, which was the home of one of America’s most profilic photographers, Alice Austen (1866-1952).
Visual artist and lesbian Henriette Hellstern-Kjøller (Denmark) writes: “The inspiration for this film came after a chat with a guy from Texas, in 2009 when I was in San Francisco.