queerartists – Page 3 – Painting After Art is Dead

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

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

Carrie Moyer

BmoreArt talks to Carrie about new work, teaching, and Art-making in a pandemic.

#carriemoyer

Hélio Oiticica

Lison gallery shows (posthumously) some of Hélio’s work. This Brazilian was one of the originators of installation art and conceptual art, establishing an influence still felt today. A poet of the favelas, or makeshift slums, found in Rio de Janeiro, Oiticica created installations that were influenced by the social circumstances of his environment.

#heliooiticica

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

Faith Wilding

I agree with Artsy that Faith’s work will appeal to fans of Georgia O’Keefe.

#faithwilding

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

Keltie Ferris

was in Queer Abstraction along with Joshua and Paola and Mark B/JE and Bo and Elijah. #queerartists

#keltieferris

Jonathan Van Dyke

Not hard to see why I’d be attracted to the painting below for those who know my own work.

Joshua’s practice also includes a performance element, something in which few abstractionists engage despite the performative nature of much painting in this genre (there are some photos of other work and stills of his last performance here).

BOMB also chose Joshua for their artist portfolio series.

#jonathanvandyke

Bo Hubbard

Bo Hubbard is an artist and organizer based in Kansas City, Missouri. Bo is
the Art Director for the Art in the Loop Foundation and is a co-founder of
Alter Art Space. He is a first-year studio resident at the Charlotte Street
Foundation.

#bohubbard

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