Tag: queerartists

Jackson Markovic

Tara Escolin visits the Atlanta-based studio of Jackson Markovic to discuss his practice of analogue photography and documenting Atlanta’s dance scene. I certainly don’t think he would call himself an abstractionist, and some of this work is definitely nonfigurative. I’m guessing most readers are also familiar with Jeffrey Gibson, another queer artist whose work ties into dance music. Jackson also did a review himself recently of Ross Landberger, another photographer pushing materials. And yeah I do love some photography, with a bent that won’t be surprising.

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Robert Morris

I find it to be a special treat when I discover there is an important artist from the canon that I’ve not yet covered here. Robert obviously made major contributions. In reading a bit more about his career. I was pleased to learn that he trained as an engineer, began his career in the Arts as an academic, and was also very interested in dance. During the 1960s and 1970s, Morris played a central role in defining three principal artistic movements of the period: Minimalist sculpture, Process Art, and Earthworks. In fact, Morris created his earliest Minimalist objects as props for his dance performances. He also had an important relationship with Linda Benglis that sparked some iconic photographs (NSFW!).

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Sharmistha Ray

is a visual artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and writing. Their work explores the complexities of cultural inheritance, queer identity, and abstraction, drawing from both Western and non-Western traditions. Ray’s art delves into themes of migration, spirituality, and the interplay between personal and collective narratives.
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Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Throughout paintings, works on paper, ceramics, and site-specific mural and sound installations, Michaela Yearwood-Dan (b. 1994; London, UK) endeavors to build spaces of queer community, abundance, and joy. Yearwood-Dan’s singular visual language draws on a diverse range of influences, including Blackness, queerness, femininity, healing rituals, and carnival culture.

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Hunter Reynolds

along with Dean Semashima is part of a two-person, intergenerational display which, according to Quingyan Deng at Hyperallergic, represents two drastically opposed approaches to queer history. While Hunter’s pieces in this show do sometimes dissolve into something abstract, it was not the only work they made (Hunter left us in 2022).

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