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Queer Feminist Exhibit OPENING IN NYC - THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2014
After Our Bodies Meet : From Resistance to Potentiality
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
This exhibition explores queer feminist artists’ responses to dominant notions about the body from the 1970’s to present day. Reflecting the ever-growing diversity of feminist art, After Our Bodies Meet provides a cross-cultural examination of how artists represent the body to challenge past and present forms of oppression and to envision a queer future.
After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality, traces the efforts of contemporary queer artists within the legacy of early feminist art. Bridging these historic and contemporary endeavors not only honors the pioneers of gender-conscious art but also highlights the evolution of feminist thought within artistic representations of queer bodies, including some that question the gender binary on which feminism was first conceived.
FEATURING WORK BY:
Laura Aguilar
Cathy Cade
Heather Cassils
Tee A. Corinne
Chitra Ganesh
Audre Lorde
Allyson Mitchell
Zanele Muholi
Catherine Opie
Chris E. Vargas
Sophia Wallace
Archival materials from the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
CURATED BY: Alexis Heller
EXHIBITION DATES: June 5 - August 3, 2014
26 Wooster Street, New York
Tuesday-Sunday 12-6pm, Thursday 12-8pm
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“How do I position myself? As long as homophobia still exists, I will continue to make work in relationship to my life and visibility”—Catherine Opie
For over thirty years, Whitney CollectionartistCatherine Opie has captured iconic photographs of people and places that are often overlooked, redefining the image of homosexuality. In honor of Pride this month, we’re highlighting works from three Whitney Collection artists who have either identified with, or fought for, the rights of the LGBTQ community through their art practice.
[Catherine Opie (b. 1961), Jenny (Bed), 2009. Chromogenic print. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee and The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. © Catherine Opie]
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Catherine Opie
Melissa & Lake,
Durham North Carolina (from the Domestic series),
1998. Chromogenic print
In 1998, Opie traveled cross-country in her motor home for two months in order to photograph lesbian couples. This series, called Domestic—of which Melissa & Lake, Durham, North Carolina is an example—presents these couples involved in everyday, household activities: relaxing in their backyard, hanging out in their kitchen, playing with their children. There is no sensationalism here. Much like the formal studio portraits before them, these intimate photographs speak both to Opie’s identification with her subjects and to the overwhelming absence of such images in mainstream representations.
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