{"id":20381,"date":"2019-05-09T15:10:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T13:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=20381"},"modified":"2019-05-09T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T13:14:10","slug":"queer-abstraction-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/queer-abstraction-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Abstraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Excerpts from the press release<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesartcenter.org\/exhibitions\/queer-abstraction\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queer Abstraction<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nJune 1 &#8211; September 8, 2019<br \/>\nDes Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA &#8211; Anna K. Meredith Gallery and I. M. Pei Building<br \/>\nCurated by Jared Ledesma. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Queer artists have embraced abstraction to communicate their unauthorized desires and identities through an accepted mode of art&#8230; Currently, abstract art that embodies this mode of expression has gained the moniker \u201cQueer Abstraction,\u201d and has become a growing aesthetic force during the present, unsettling era.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><em>Queer Abstraction<\/em> will be the first exhibition in the Des Moines Art Center\u2019s 70-year history to focus exclusively on queer subject matter. It marks a substantial shift in the Art Center\u2019s programming by purposely including queer voices that have been left out of art history. Assistant Curator Jared Ledesma is organizing the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition will be traveling to the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas. And it is acompanied by a catalogue. Artists include: Math Bass, Mark Bradford, Edie Fake, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harmonyhammond.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harmony Hammond<\/a>, Nicholas Hlobo, John Paul Morabito, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carriemoyer.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Moyer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sheila_Pepe\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Pepe<\/a>, Prem Sahib, Jonathan VanDyke, and Jade Yumang. The project also includes the commissioning of works by Elijah Burgher and Mark Joshua Epstein, and a new edition of artist Tom Burr\u2019s large-scale sculpture Deep Purple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queer Abstraction<br \/>\nJune 1 &#8211; September 8, 2019<br \/>\nDes Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.<br \/>\nCurated by Jared Ledesma. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[87,179,348],"class_list":["post-20381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queer-art","tag-carrie-moyer","tag-harmony-hammond","tag-sheila-pepe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}