Portrait photographer Shelby Sharie Cohen took Kinky BDSM photographs of Butches and Femmes in the 1980s. She photographed for On Our Backs.
Category: Featured Artists
Kallie Genzale is an American queer artist who makes paintings and works on paper. In this artist’s statement Kallie presents a series of recent acrylic paintings.
Three illustrations: Mnasidika’s Breasts, Crazy Embrace and Desire by Dganit Greier (US). The 19th-century sapphic love poems, “Les Chanson de Bilitis” by Pierre Louys accompany the illustrations.
Psychedelic O’Keeffe by Denise Cumming. The female figure with a male elk skull celebrates the masculine and feminine within us all.
Michela Griffo, a long-term queer feminist activist and a visual artist, is based in New York. She has exhibited widely since the early 1970s.
I am unconcerned with figurative details in my paintings. Emotions are expressed broadly, through the body. Intricacies in facial expression, dress, or limb are minimal or nonexistent. The focus is on the body, a vessel for pleasure, desire, dreams, reflection.
Kavel Rafferty: Queer Flowers at White Conduit Project Gallery, London, July 20-25, 2021.
Renée Jacobs is one of the most celebrated photographers of the female nude of our time. Recipient of the prestigious International Photography Award for Fine Art Nude, her work has been exhibited and published around the world. Her photography books PARIS and POLAROIDS are currently open for pre-sales.
Laurie Edison: I’ve been walking & living in the shadow of the pandemic and the lockdown, photographing the Pandemic Shadows that I see everywhere.
My work is an exploration of identity, vulnerability and courage. My subjects have accepted that they are not meant to fit in but to stand out…
‘Something I Want to Tell You – Big Paintings by Pamela Dodds’ at Suite 215 Gallery, 78th Street Studios Building, 1300 W 78th St, Cleveland, Ohio, 44102, USA , thru July, 2020.
Rachel Ara is a conceptual and data artist who explores the relationships between gender, technology and systems of power. Her works are nonconformist with a socio-political edge that often incorporates humour and irony with feminist and queer concerns.
Artist statement and photos by Jannica Honey. Swedish photographer Jannica Honey, based in Scotland, presents her latest feminist art project ‘When the Blackbird Sings’ which focuses on the female body and its links with nature.
Berlin-based artist Martina Minette Dreier is dealing with questions of identity and Sehnsucht (longing). She paints life-size portraits of queer performers.
Sarah Jane Moon is a painter who specialises in portraiture and figurative painting. Her
work explores identity, sexuality and gender presentation as well as interrogating formal
painterly concerns.
Roxana Halls expresses what it is to be a women in her narative paintings that take you into a hidden world of fancy dress and surreal moments that can be unflinchingly uncomfortable whilst daring you to look away.
Lena Rosa Händle’s artistic practice and research deals with queer feminist discourses …
This new work documents my journey to pregnancy as a queer femme, and the resulting birth of my child, Francesca.
Pamela Dodds – Artist’s Statement about Undertow, an installation of relief prints.
French visual artist and author Ariane Sirota: aiming to move various audiences, I express myself through several media…