gRAPHICaNATOMY

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.

http://www.graphicanatomy.com/#15glitter

Labels: art, california, exhibition, lgbtq, queer, queer culture, san Francisco

Pittsburgh's annual festival supporting the ever- expanding Queer arts scene.
Something about this reminded me of my days at the Pa Governor's School for the Arts. ... which is a good thing. It was great to be a part of it.

Irma Freeman Center for the Imagination

My Artwork at the bottom

part of the Rainbow in the Dark tour

janet Granet

Bekezela & Joy KMT

Labels: art, pgh art, queer, queer culture

If you haven't seen the summer show at the Warhol Museum, you really should.
The top floor has the work of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and there is A LOT of it.
Mostly self - referential... but that is to be expected. Some of it dates back to 1960.
A life time of making yourself .. your life...  into art. 
According to the website, "The cultural engineer Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE is an avant-garde anti-hero whose remarkable body of underground work reminds us that when you believe something, artistic integrity demands that you live by it too."
I also wanted to see Caldwell's show at the Warhol.
The photos are packed salon style I actually found my self in the background of a photo and one of my paintings in another photo... which was a rather nice feeling.  It's nice to see the queer underground of Pittsburgh getting some appreciation.

Labels: caldwell, photos, queer culture, warhol museum