August 21 – September 18, 2010 Galleri NB in Viborg, Denmark, presents ‘ABJECT AND OBJECT’, an exhibition by Danish artist and lesbian Henriette Hellstern-Kjøller. Henriette invites you to join her at the opening of her exhibition
Author: Havmoeller
Shelley Stefan (b. 1974, Palos Park, Illinois, USA)
Feminist artist Suzanne Lacy talks about how her art teacher and founder of the Los Angeles Womans Building Judy Chicago transformed her life in the begining of the 1970’ies. Their conversation is about mentorship, teaching and about women and art. The video was recorded on March 5 2007.
Femina Potens, a queer non-profit art gallery & performance space in San Francisco, presents the group show ‘QUEER COUTURE’ August 2010.
From the documentational videos of the “Intervene! Interrupt!: Rethinking Art as Social Practice” conference and festival at University of California Santa Cruz – May 15-17, 2008, (published may 2010 at YouTube) I have selected the videos of about by Elizabeth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle.
Today I have found a couple of videos about an art show titled ‘The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women’ at Cheim & Read, New York 2009.
Video: Catherine Opie: American Photographer by Guggenheim. September 26, 2008 – January 7, 2009 you could see a big retrospective exhibition by queer American photographer Catherine Opie at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In this video from the exhibition she is speaking of her “Surfers” and “Icehouses” series.
‘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.
Sif Itona Westerberg (1985) is a Copenhagen based artist studying at the Funen Art Academy, Denmark. She Works mainly with sculptures, story telling, claymation, stop motion and animation.
The Pride in Art Society presents the 2010 Queer Arts Festival QUEERTOPIA which runs July 27 until August 14, 2010 at The Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre in downtown Vancouver, Canada
Here is a video about the annual exhibition of the National Queer Arts Festival in California June 2010:
Justin Hoover takes us on a walk through ‘Chronotopia’ a queer group exhibition at SOMArts.
I think that it is time for a bit of storytelling. I created Feminine Moments in 2003, because I felt that the world – especially the lesbian and queer communities – needed a coherent body of resources about contemporary art made by lesbians and queer female artists.
Naughty but Nice – a gay group exhibition, August 1, 2010 to September 12, 2010, at The ABC Treehouse, Amsterdam, Holland.
Artist Statement by Jewlia Eisenberg. Photo: AnMarie Rodgers
For years I have assumed that famous American painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was bisexual. Now I am not so sure any more because, I can’t find any reliable souces about her female friends being her girlfriends
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 queer Swedish art group Gardet: Kajsa Boklund, Elinore Lindén Strand, Frida Gustavsson, Julia Nilsson and John Erlandsson will be presenting their latest works of art durring the Stockholm Pride 2010.
Photographer Anne Bentley invites you to visit the groupe exhibition Picture This 2010 photography prize exhibition from 17-29 July: 7 days a week 10am-10pm at Brunswick Street Gallery’s, Melburne Australia.
The ‘Faces and Phases’ series of black and white portraits by Zanele Muholi focuses on the commemoration and celebration of black lesbians’ lives.
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.