Catherine Opie and her Landscape Photos

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…

New York: Creating A Queer Museum at Leslie-Lohman

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…

New York: Lesbians Seeing Lesbians

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…

Lesbian Art Herstory: Lesbians Seeing Lesbians

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.

Curator Jonathan Katz Talks About Some Of The Women Artist at Hide/Seek

“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.

Lesbian Art Herstory: The Lesbian Art Project and GALAS

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.

Catherine Opie: American Photographer

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.

VOICE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Catherine Opie

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.

Catherine Opie at The Guggenheim Museum

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…