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I'll be displaying several works of art and giving out free stickers, thanks to the Queer Cultural Center.

Each year, QCC organizes a large-scale month-long exhibition of cutting-edge queer art at SomArts Cultural Center Gallery in San Francisco that serves as the National Queer Arts Festival’s kick-off event. This annual exhibition is the largest and oldest forum for queer visual art in the U.S. For the past 17 years, the exhibition has featured 30 to 60 emerging and mid-career Queer artists’ work. These works are documented on QCC website, which provides a visual history of queer art making in the U.S. and provides curators and activists with a valuable resource for contemporary queer visual culture.

The exhibition will explore the idea of physical, social, political, affective and historical connections. For those who have been denied acceptance into existing social models and access to traditional political means, or for those who voluntarily reject these structures, queers have created alternative social connections as sites of political transformation or contestation.

Historically, LGBTQ people have made connections with each other across racial, geographic, gender, ability, age, class and cultural borders. These connections have built a strong LGBT community, generated new concepts of queer families, developed innovative health and social service models and made long lasting alliances with other disenfranchised communities and social change movements – interweaving social justice issues into our daily lives.

For the past 40 years LGBT people have constantly forged new ways to connect within and outside of our perceived communities: body-building magazines, lesbian pulp fiction, want ads in straight publications and other 1960s practices gave way to gay newspapers, bars, sex clubs, churches and political organizations in the 1970s. In the 1990s the increasing use of digital technology proliferated the ways LGBT people could communicate and connect. With this rise of technology, we are called upon to respond to a new and increasingly rapid proliferation of political and visual culture and an array of urgent social issues that this technology makes increasingly visible.

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In December of 2009 at Fast Forward gallery the first 12x12 show brought together a group of young artists who for the most part were just starting out in their art careers. That show was an introduction to the emerging and vibrant art scene in Pittsburgh at that time and now it's time for round two. 12x12 Rewind, curated by Craig Freeman and Ron Copeland, is an homage to the show that originally brought us together and at the same time will be an introduction to a whole new group of prolific and skilled artists living and working in present day Pittsburgh.

Modern Formations 4919 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa 15224

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The place was packed. The crowds arrived before the event started. At the peak it was impossible to move. Clearly, there is an audience for adult, sophisticated Erotic art.
Trundle Manor was an excellent host as usual. But maybe it's time to look for a bigger venue. Include more artists....? 

"Boss" Acrylic. 24x48" by Sam Thorp

"BBWbeauty" Acrylic. 11x14" by Sam Thorp

Russ Wayne rope tying demo.

They came from all over to Trundle Manor view the show.

"Put a Ring on it" Acrylic 11x14" by Sam Thorp

The human holiday cookie tray.

"Wolf" Acrylic 20x20" by Sam Thorp

Many pieces sold. But some are still available. Keep an eye open for the closing show announcement.

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Trundle Manor was kind enough to host the artwork that other galleries would turn away.
Artwork by Sam Thorp. Photos by Mia Donna. Everything else by Trundle Manor.















The show is up till July 25. Some artwork still available for sale. There will be a closing party with Phat Man Dee.

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Once again team MWFA traveled to Cleveland to represent the Pittsburgh Arts scene. The festival has definitely been growing. In the battle between Pittsburgh a\artists vs. Cleveland artists, Pittsburgh has won 3 straight years now.

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a little late, but better than never.
February was meant to be a milestone, a museum show.
But February in Western PA is never kind.  There were challenges with weather, schedules, and a few uptight parents.
However, the show went on.
I decided to exhibit my drawing skills for my ideas, and I am pleased with the results.
This show marks a turning point in my style and technique.



My drawing relies heavily on lines (more so than my painting) and the lines contain the language. Lines are a recording of body movement. Character is revealed in the movement. The ideas are about the fringe, the periphery, the outsiders.   Digital enhancements are made to the drawing for the sake of size and contrast. It also allows me to add what I call "the flaws": glitches, defects, and all the distractions and psychological filters that prevent us form seeing what is right in front of us. All the things you have to look "through" to clearly "See".
Here's a video walk through of the show on YouTube

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