Tag: art
This Gay Artist Challenged Sexuality Norms Long Before We Could Imagine
Celebrating homoeroticism, androgyny, nakedness & unbounded love REPRINTED FROM https://medium.com/ COPYRIGHT Kamna Kirti Idyll by George Quaintance. Can you imagine a gay visual artist in 1950s America who embraced gender fluidity long before the term was even coined? Imagine how difficult it would be to aesthetically portray homoeroticism long before when being gay was not…
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: When You Need Letters for Your Skin
London-based artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami was born in Gutu, Zimbabwe in 1993 and her work reveals a deeply personal vision of Southern African life. Her new solo show at Victoria Miro Gallery shows new work that draws on her experiences of geographical dislocation and displacement, her paintings combine visual fragments from a myriad of sources such…
Jamie Casertano | A Bowl of Cherries, Selected Photographs 1999-2021 @AMP PTown
Like many of the queer local artists who live full-time in Provincetown, Jamie Casertano wears several other hats. Queerguru knows him best as the Technical Wizz behind the Cabaret Shows at the Art House Theater. It seems that this is in part an end to means as it provides him with an…
Socially Engaged Art Salon (SEAS) UK presents QUEER HETEROTOPIAS Exhibit
Duke Mound, Brighton’s Palace Pier, the Marina, Brighton Sauna, Black Rock place, Portslade Basin Road Local Wildlife site and its naturist beach, Brighton Pavilion, the Pride parade, your home during the lockdown, and sometimes your body… all these are heterotopias – places that are outside the norm, that are strange or in other words…
Berliner queer artist Stefan Merkt has Tom of Finland all licked
The very prolific queer Berlin-based artist Stefan Merkt is back with a new Exhibit at Romeo und Romeo which focuses on his favorite inspiration Tom of Finland. But look closely at the pictures we have previewed from the Show as there is not a drop of paint on any of them. Since the 1980’s…
