Catherine Opie | The Artist’s Museum from MOCA on Vimeo. Structured as extended studio visits The Artist’s Museum (2009) video series by MOCA capture each artists’ creative process and motivations, developing a rich narrative on the vitality of the Los Angeles artist community. In this video photographer and queer woman…
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Marion Pinto, Sleeping Church Nude, 1974, Oil on canvas, 71.75 x 79.75″ Press release Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art presents Creating A Queer Museum December 14, 2011 – January 28, 2012 26 Wooster Street (between Canal & Grand) New York, NY 10013, USA Opening Reception Tuesday, December…
Press release from The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Lesbians Seeing Lesbians Building Community in Early Feminist Photography Exhibition Ends October 22, 2011 at the Leslie-Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster Street, NYC, USA Tee Corrine, Self-portrait, Gelatin silver print, 1980. Press photo courtesy of Leslie-Lohman Gallery. In the wake…
Lesbians Seeing Lesbians: building community in early feminist photography
focuses on three of the most prominent photographers of this early generation: Tee A. Corinne (1943-2006: St. Petersburg, Florida), JEB (Joan E. Biren, b.1944: Washington D.C.), and Cathy Cade (b.1942: Honolulu, Hawaii). And the works of contemporary lesbian photographers: Cass Bird, Angela Jimenez, Zanele Muholi and Catherine Opie.
Catherine Opie : Retrospective at the Guggenheim, “American Photographer” Sept 26th, 2008 – Jan 7th, 2009. In this video Grace Moon talks with queer photographer Catherine Opie about Catherine’s retrospective at the Guggenheim.
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.
I have been looking back at lesbian art projects and exhibitions in the late 1970s, when lesbian artists began to fight for their seat in history and took the first steps on the way to raising public awareness of lesbian art as something more than a hidden subcultural phenomenon.
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.
Artist Catherine Opie discusses identity and how it is perceived and shaped through portraits of close friends in the Los Angeles lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and transvestite community.
Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow has a social justice exhibition every other year. This year the topic is lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex and transgender life.
Essay by Birthe Havmoeller, June 30, 2009.
If you are planning a trip to New York this autumn, I think that a visit to Catherine Opie’s exhibition “Catherine Opie: American Photographer” at the Guggenheim Museum is a must for any lesbian. Queer photographer Catherine Opie’s mid-career retrospective gathers works from many of Opie’s well known series, starting…