Chicano Park iPhoneography by Tina Rice

Artist statement and photos by Tina Rice / COMBO APPS: Mobile Extreme Editing   Photo from the Chicano Park iPhoneography series by Tina Rice Artist Statement by Tina Rice Tina Rice: I’m a photography/mobile based artists. Everything I do now is from my iPhone and iPad. All my traditional photographic…

Suzie Pindar – Endless Possibilities

Suzie Pindar – Dream, 21cm x 29.7cm, black edged wood frame 32.5cm x 42.5cm Endless Possibilities – a group mixed media exhibition Camden Image Gallery 174 Royal College Street, Camden, London March 8 – 20 2014 UK artist and queer woman Suzie Pindar takes part in the exhibition titles Endless…

Primal HeArt by Belle Ancell

Text & photo: Belle Ancell, Canada Amber Dawn, writer. Photo from the Primal HeArt series by Belle Ancell Artist Statement by Belle Ancell Belle Ancell: The Primal HeArt series is from a photo project I was invited to participate in out of Toronto, Canada called the 10×10 Photography Project. The…

Melisa Ljubovich a Queer Artist From Bosnia

Text and images: Melisa Ljubovich Pastuvka in Zürich (Bosnian female horse in Zürich), a self portrait by Melisa ‘Mel’ Ljubovich   Artist Statement by Melisa ‘Mel’ Ljubovich Mel Ljubovich: In major parts of the Balkans being transparent and queer, despite your work and other activities, are not getting on well…

Remains of Eternity by Sif Itona Westerberg

Text by Birthe Havmoeller / Feminine Moments Sif Itona Westerberg, photo by Birthe Havmoeller Danish art student Sif Itona Westerberg (above) is interested in rites and systems that create and uphold social and historical power structures. I met her at her latest exhibition Remains of Eternity in Copenhagen a few…

No Fear by Elinore Lindén Strand

Artist Statement and photos by Elinore Lindén Strand Close-up of No Fear, an installation by Elinore Lindén Strand, 2013. Splitting her time between Stockholm and Berlin has made Swedish visual artist Elinore Lindén Strand see the European history in a new light. Meeting people who’s grandparents fought for or against…

Digital Tapestries by Azsa West

Artist statement via Leslie-Lohman Museum eDigest. Tuesday, August 6 Azsa West – BLANKET Leslie-Lohman Museum Window Gallery 26 Wooster Street, New York City July 20 – October 13, 2013 BLANKET is a series of digitally printed tapestries made by using portraits taken with a camera phone around New York City….

Thirza Cuthand

Artist profile cross-posted at http://queerartsfestival.com Thirza Cuthand Artist in TransgressionNow, curated Visual Art Exhibition, [of the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver, Canada] Jul 24 – Aug 9 2013. Thirza Cuthand is a Cree filmmaker and artist from Saskatchewan. Thirza has made over ten videos since she was sixteen years old,…

Thirza Cuthand – Canadian Experimental Filmmaker

Storytellers in Motion Episode 32: Thirza Cuthand Excerpt: Storytellers in Motion Episode 32: Thirza Cuthand. 2010 Thirza Cuthand – Canadian Experimental Filmmaker Helpless Maiden by Thirza Cuthand

Kathy Atkins

Artist profile originally posted at http://queerartsfestival.com.

Newness

Essay by Ji Strangeway / L.A. / 2013 Museums and history are like cemeteries. They house dead masters of the past. I want to live in the present and it is here that I create. The old art masters are embalmed in history books and pickled in the morgues of…

Belle Ancell

Belle Ancell Artist in TransgressionNow, curated Visual Art Exhibition, [of the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver, Canada] Jul 24 – Aug 9 2013. Belle Ancell was born and raised in the Kootenays and currently lives in the beautiful city of Vancouver, BC. A self proclaimed ‘late bloomer’, she went back…

Queer Feminist Photographer Goodyn Green

Photo from the series The Catalog by Goodyn Green. Goodyn Green – The Catalog at Strange Loop Gallery in New York Goodyn Green is a queer feminist photographer, born in Aalborg, Denmark 1979. She graduated as an art and history primary school teacher from N. Zahles College of Education in…

American Craftswoman Caitlin R. Sweet

Artist statement and photos by Caitlin Rose Sweet Gay Cave, mixed media, 15’x6’, by Caitlin R. Sweet, 2012. Photo by Ty August Chance Caitlin R. Sweet: I am a conceptual craftswoman who uses the connotations of the handmade as a platform to explore our relationship to the body, sexuality, utopian…

American Painter Taylor Smith

Taylor Smith: Artist statement and paintings Study For Two Women. Painting by Taylor Smith Artist Statement Taylor Smith: Within my work, I blend my own contemporary interpretation of abstraction with elements of traditional still life and portraiture. Mathematics, organic chemistry, mechanics, photography and pop culture also play a role in…