Queer artist María DeGuzmán asks: Where would you like your artwork to appear? On gallery walls, in private collections, on the Internet, in magazines, in and on books?
Category: Artist showcases
Photo from ‘Brown Portfolio’ by Anastasia Kuba, USA
Grace Moon, editor of Velvetpark talked with artist Michelle Handelman in her studio.
The short film ‘Difficult Love’ is a portrait of visual activist Zanele Muholi from Sout Africa and her portfolios of fine art photography. – It is a highly personal take on the challenges facing Black lesbians in South Africa today that emerges through Muholi’s life, work, friends and her associates.
Zanele Muholi was in Stockholm, Sweden end of March 2010 to talk about her film about the challenges which Black lesbians faces every day in South Africa.
Artist statement by Jess Dobkin: I approach performance art as an inherently subversive practice. My performances challenge the status quo, transgress boundaries and envision alternate realities. …
Text and artwork by Debbie McCarthy: Nearly a decade later, I look back on my time at Leeds with fond memories.(…) Looking at these drawings makes me realize that I didn’t simply arrive at the person I am today, it was a metamorphic struggle.
Debbie McCarthy
Tess Sheerin is back with a new and exciting expo at the new Sh! Womenstore, 253 Portobello Road, London.
Painter Edilène Bentzen
Photographer Julie Fogarty has made a fine portfolio of casual portraits of her queer friends, lovers and aquintances.
Photos and Artist Statement by Beata Kosc: ‘The “Certain Body” is a series of self-portraits. It is focusing on gender as a layer of identity attributed to the body…
Statement by Silvia Ros.
Artist statement by Jan Morley, UK. I have been designing for the tableware industry for about 15 years and I also own and run an online gift store.
Dutch artist Corinne Bot
Martina Minette Dreier has studied painting and illustration at Fachhochschule Bielefeld in 1988 – 1993. She is currently living and working in Berlin, Germany.
Shelley Stefan (b. 1974, Palos Park, Illinois, USA)
‘I think my photographic vision is coming into focus just as I’m coming into myself and submitting all of my being to all possibilities wherever they may come. Artistically at a crossroad and committing myself to producing images that present the perverse, the destructive, the sexual, the eroticized and ultimately the beauty of life and women bodies.
Erin Smith, Australia: ‘My work is created from letters extracted from journals of automatic writing then digitally printed and hand drawn with archival ink onto paper.
The project, I am working on now, is about text and photography. I want to see how they fit together; contrast each other or complement each other. Sometimes I photograph words, sometimes I write my words into the photograph, and sometimes I put them up next to each other.
The Albion Street Gallery invites you to the opening of Anne Bentley’s solo show SANE on Friday June 25, 2010, 6-9pm at The Albion Street Gallery, 105 Albion Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia.
Norwegian artist and lesbian Grete Ramberg, based in Oslo, works with studio glass. In the spring 2010 she made her latest works at Engelsholm folk high school in Denmark.