Michael at Hyperallergic reminds us Lawrence showed in nine Whitney biennials, and was a lover to Beauford Delaney, and his legacy is yet to be fully explored.
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Tag: queerartists
Igshaan Adams
like Magdalena has work featured in To Weave the Sky. A queer artist who was born of a Muslim father and raised by his Christian grandmother, Adam’s elaborate textiles address the diverse cultural and spiritual contexts that continue to form his identity. The artist has embraced Islamic spirituality and particularly Sufism, and his works might be read as enlarged prayer rugs.
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Kerry Downey
Kerry has work up at Underdonk in exhibit titled for, between, beside, like, inside, around, near, of, on, under, off, until, behind, to, through, within, without, over, pass, along, among, following, against, from, outside, toward, beyond,.
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Jane Cheek
is local artist working occasionally non-figuratively (like Jean Gray her work has narrative components- ). I had the pleasure of getting to know her through Extra Spectral.
Recently she wrote a blog about the story of becoming an installation artist.
#janecheek
Becca Lowry
Elijah Wheat is enthralled to present a solo exhibition of multi-media works by Becca Lowry, their first at the gallery entitled “The Mountains Will Still Be Here.” More
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Kyle Meyer
Two Coats of Paint featured below in the email version of their October Hudson Valley Selected Gallery Guide- Kyle’s work is up for auction as part of Artists for Pride, Benefiting the Ali Forney Center . To be fair, some of his work has images (including below) and he also does installation and fashion work.
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Forrest Bess
is one of several LGBTQ+ artists discussed in Evan Moffit’s recent Artsy article How LGBTQ+ Artists Use Abstraction to Move Past Labels. In it he asks what “is “queer abstraction”? The term is slippery. Abstraction, like queerness, derives its force from a lack of fixity. Unlike the standard markers we use to categorize identity, it refuses to coherently represent anyone or anything. LGBTQ+ artists, or artists whose sexualities are non-normative, have been making abstract art as long as abstract art has existed. Calling their work “queer” is much more difficult when that work doesn’t involve representation at all.” Amy and Carrie also get mentions.
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Jeffrey Gibson
Sited below at Expo Chicago- it’s actually a functional drum. Apparently as always I’m the last to be on the know (he has almost 30k followers). His work has headed in new directions (although the galleria at informed me he still uses some of the drums in performances).
#jeffreygibson
Daisy Parris
Daisy uses text and rough gestural brushstrokes in their large-scale canvases to illustrate raw emotional expression. Bringing a punk aesthetic to painterly abstraction, Parris has explored themes like anxiety and identity politics.
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Taylor Zarkades King
Leasho Johnson
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.
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Theresa Chromati
Joy Episalla
Two Coats has words about Joy’s radical photography.
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Will Hutnik
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.
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Painting After Art is Dead 