queerartists – Painting After Art is Dead

Taylor Zarkades King

has below in Tender Presence with a I got see in Penland.

#taylorzarkadesking

is one of October artists-in-residence at Fountainhead. Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and raised in Sheffield, a small town on the outskirts of Negril. Leasho uses his experience growing up Black, queer, and male to explore concepts around forming an identity within the post-colonial condition of Jamaican Dancehall street culture.

#leashojohnson

Theresa Chromati

Is doing exactly what they were born to do.

#theresachromati

Joy Episalla

Two Coats has words about Joy’s radical photography.
#joyepisallas

Will Hutnik

like Amanda is in NAP #152

#willhutnik

Freddie Bell

Freddie is headed into the Regional Emerging Artist Residency for Artspace for 2022. They feel (as a queer/trans person) that “language is important for expressing our experiences, but labels become limiting when we become too attached to them” and they explore this through loose shape and varied repetition.
#freddiebell

Wilder Alison

Since 2014, Alison has been visually dissecting Monique Wittig’s novel The Lesbian Body, which theorizes the split subjectivity women experience in language, an inherently patriarchal structure.
#wilderalison

Grzegorz Siembida

Artforum notes Grzegorz’s work in a show with Marta.

#gregorysiembida

Marta Sala

Travis Jeppesen’s 2019 essay “Queer Abstraction (Or How to Be a Pervert with No Body). Some Notes Toward a Probability” asked whether nonrepresentational art could ever be understood as queer or nonbinary. Curator Tomek Baran took Jeppesen’s question as the starting point for “WOW,” an exhibition that brings together works by Marta and Grzegorz. Both artists escape classification, making use of seemingly spontaneous and yet exacting gestures that situate their paintings, textiles, and installations somewhere between construction and destruction.

#martasala

Ross Bleckner

Repetitious Visitation is from 1987- Ross was one of the painters that managed to keep the art world’s attention during an era when painting was largely out of favor.

#rossbleckner

Louise Fishman

Artforum notes “Ballin’ the Jack,” and also that Louise began “her practice at the height of Abstract Expressionism; Fishman asserted herself as a queer feminist Jewish woman within the artistic milieu of the time. Her atmospheric spaces and muscular articulations recount the urgency of her self-expression, and speak to the dynamic forward motion of ballin’ the jack, or going full-speed.”

#louisefishman

Lynda Benglis

I’ve been a big fan of Lynda since discovering her poured work during my undergrad days. Seeing her work getting new juxtapositions inspired a revisiting of some like Contraband and Wing.

Wolfgang Tillmans

As I was spending some time cataloging queer artists I found this good read which features some photography from early in Wolfgang’s career (the part of his oeuvre that lead to him receiving the Turner prize).

#wolfgangtillmans

Richard Lippold

was part of the same cadre of queer creatives as Cy in the ’60s and had no small part to play in the story of Modernism himself.

#richardlipold

Cy Twombly

One of my favorite things about living in Houston was visiting the Cy Twombly gallery at the Menil museum. I can’t think of many other artists whose work can create the kind of visceral connection that his does- I think of it first when discussions veer towards work that is beyond words or language.

BTW- you should also check out this good read about the importance of time he spent with Robert Rauschenberg.

#cytwombly

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