Elisabeth Ohlson-Wallin’s exhibition ‘In Hate We Trust’ is open at Alingsås Konsthall, Södra Ringgatan 3, 441 81 Alingsås, Sverige: 17.01.09 – 01.03.09.
Category: Lesbian art
Femina Potens Gallery in California presents a new generation of female artists who works with pop art and surrealism. Opening reception for ‘Pop Pop! Fizz Fizz!’ on January 10, 2009, at 7pm – 10pm.
Anastasia Kuba is a San Francisco based photographer originally from Russia. She moved to United States on her own at the age of 20 in 2003. Partially because Anastasia felt lost in cultural and language differences, she turned to visual art as a universal way of self expression and communication….
European-American painter Michèle Marie Bonnarens alias Art tart has been living in the thriving art and lgbtq communities of Berlin since 1991.
The winners of the 2008 Astraea Lesbian Visual Arts Fund (USA) are Jess Dunn, Elaine Gan and Amey Gee. The Astraea Lesbian Visual Arts Fund promotes the work of contemporary lesbian visual artists. Grants are awarded to artists working in an array of media including sculpture, painting, prints, mixed media…
A symposium on Tee Corinne and lesbian art and culture is to be held December 8-9, 2008 at the University of Oregon, USA.
Art historian Flavia Rando, founding member of the Astraea Lesbian Visual Arts Committee, has curated a retrospective exhibition of works of art by late lesbian artist Maxine Fine (1942-2003). Maxine was one of the pioneering members of the Lesbian Art Movement in USA. Her work was published in the 1977 Lesbian issue…
Lisa Metherell
“BustED: art about breast health” is a group show of art celebrating the lovely and erotic nature of the bosom, while reminding everyone of the way breast cancer affects our lives. Transplant (Step 1) and (Step 2) – Talia Greene The group show includes works of art by Annie Sprinkle,…
If you are planning a trip to New York this autumn, I think that a visit to Catherine Opie’s exhibition “Catherine Opie: American Photographer” at the Guggenheim Museum is a must for any lesbian. Queer photographer Catherine Opie’s mid-career retrospective gathers works from many of Opie’s well known series, starting…
I haven’t got the book “Femmes of Power – Exploding Queer Femininities” yet, but I have read a review of the book, which I want to share with you. Read the review by Jess McCabe. “Femmes of Power” is by photographer Del LaGrace Volcano and Swedish cultural anthropologist Ulrika Dahl….
Lenore Chinn – “Doors at 798 Art Space (Beiging, China)”, 2008, (press photo) from “Out of the Bouble; Artists on Queer Travel” at the Femina Potens Art Gallery in San Francisco.
I have been corresponding with Danish artist Henriette Hellstern Kjøller about her life as a lesbian artist and her art latest projects. This is what she wrote. Henriette: To use my sexuality in my artistic work is the most natural thing for me as I my life as a lesbian is a…
From June 14 through September 21, 2008 the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen presents ‘Just Different’, an art exhibition about sexual desire, gender and identity construction in visual arts at the turn of the 21st century. It reveals an alternative lifestyles such as homosexuality and transsexuality. The Dutch title of the…
Catherine Allport
Traditionally art has had the role of being society’s eye opener. Art must make strong statements and spark a cultural debate. Debates about new issues can lead to change just like new technology, and thus art may lead to new trends and be an agent in the process of change in…
Amber Hawk Swanson recently spent a month at the Fountainhead Residency in Miami shooting new photography and video work for the exhibition, “To Have, To Hold, and To Violate: Amber and Doll” opening May 10, 7-11pm at Locust Projects in conjunction with the Wynwood Art District Second Saturday gallery walk and…
Lesbians have probably used the camera since it was invented in the 1830’ies. I have found some links to a few old self-portraits, which I want to share with Feminine Moments’ readers: Emma Jane Gay (1830-1919) with her back to the viewer Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) smoking, drinking and showing her…
The closet is a metaphor for something hidden often undisclosed sexual orientation. We talk about a closeted person. I wonder if this term is as old as ‘the closet’ as a European furniture or if the Wikipedia researchers are right when they assume that expressions such as “in the closet”…
Art Book. I have a catalogue from the exhibition “DET INTIME SPROG II” by Nathalie Amand at Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen in 1996.