Saturday and Sunday will culminate with a fashion pop-up shop featuring queer designers and artists from NYC and beyond. Swing through, hang out, and shop from 1-5pm at the museum, artists including @chellaman
, @rebirthgarments, @mellojello91, @vincettastudio, @malcolmxbetts, and @surprisinghealthbenefits will bring their wares to the museum, where guests can not only enjoy the work, but take it home for themselves.
These designers and artists all use fashion as a site to explore transness, how clothing can be a source of safety and joy in an ableist world, and how photography and fashion can function as a vital tool for self representation and preservation in BIPOC, queer, disability communities.
Some items are free for Black queer community members, courtesy of the artists. Join us and experience the joy of liberatory design.
RSVP through link in bio or here: https://bit.ly/3OxSEQM
Image Description: A gif cycles through images of some of the artists and designers in the pop-up. They wear their clothing -- bright, colorful, painted, sculptural, kaleidoscopic pieces. Interspersed are the words: POP UP SHOP 1-5PM 7.30 LLMA
“What does it mean to endure care, and how can care be sustained through decades of crisis? Life-saving antiretroviral medications brought fundamental changes to HIV care in 1996, but there is still no cure or vaccine for HIV. The virus can now be suppressed to the point of being undetectable and untransmittable, but living with HIV also entails adherence to a regimen of daily medication and regular doctors visits, self-advocacy in the face of bureaucracy, and dealing with stigma and misinformation. ENDURING CARE addresses these multiple realities, naming the perseverance of care workers and people living with HIV while also suggesting how medicine and healthcare can be painful, harmful, and difficult to access.”
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS (@visual_aids) for Day With(out) Art 2021 by presenting ENDURING CARE, a video program highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. The program features newly commissioned work by Katherine Cheairs (@kat_cheairs), Cristóbal Guerra (@farifos), Danny Kilbride (@thinkingfilm), Beto Pérez (@animaleinstein), Steed Taylor (@steed_taylor), Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad & Uriah Bussey (@mxabdulaliy), and J Triangular and the Women’s Video Support Project (@jtriangular).
💥 TODAY through DEC 7, the video program is available via our webpage. Visit the link below to start watching now!
https://www.leslielohman.org/exhibitions/day-without-art-2021-enduring-care
💥 TONIGHT (Dec 1) Visual AIDS is also hosting an #IRL screening and talkback tonight 6–8 pm at @brooklynmuseum with a number of the artists. RSVP via the #linkiprofile.
Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.
#LeslieLohmanMusem #VisualAIDS #daywithoutart
Last Night Was So Much Fun 🎉🥂❤️! Thank you to everyone who attended our Fall Gala! We are humbled to have had the opportunity to gather as a community with 275 guests and supporters in a sold out venue, The Stranger, to celebrate our visionary honorees, Jeffrey Gibson (@jeffrune) and #AnniseParker. It was a beautiful evening!
We are deeply thankful for our talented performers, devynn emory (@devynnemory), MX Oops (@mx_oops), and Narcissister (@therealnarcissister); our DJ/performers, The Illustrious Blacks (@theillustriousblacks) and br0nz3_g0dd3ss (@misscommunic8) for their fabulous beats all evening; our generous host committee Doron Langberg (@doronlangberg), Jason Rodriguez (@thejasonarodriguez), Martine Rose (@martine_rose), Hillary Taymour (@_collina), and Raquel Willis (@raquel_willis); our sponsor, @madreMezcal. AND especially to YOU, our community, for your overwhelming support for the Museum of Art and LGBTQ+ art!
This year's Gala is over but the celebration continues with out Gala Online Art Auction, featuring 51 unique works available for bidding through November 15th. 🔥👀Artists featured include our Gala honoree Jeffrey Gibson, Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellows, and both established and emerging talents. Follow the link below to place your bids!
https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/leslie-lohman-museum-of-art/2021-gala-art-auction-7782
The Museum is honored to share a portion of the revenue with the featured artists. And we are partnering with @fairchain.art to offer digital certificates of authenticity for each work and provide royalty for secondary market sales, opening a window of sustainable artist practices for the future.
Keep last night’s Gala energy alive by visiting the auction to bid on works by artists paving the way for queer culture today 🔥!
#LeslieLohmanMuseum #LLMAGala2021
[📸 : © Leandro Justen, 2019 and Cara Friedman/BFA.com.]
TUEDAY, NOV 16th, 6:30 PM, we are thrilled to co-present with Judd Foundation (@juddfoundation) a conversation between Avram Finkelstein, curator of our current exhibition, "OMNISCIENT: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture" and participating artists Camilo Godoy and Omar Mismar. The conversation will focus on new approaches to monumentality, identity, and legacies of queer image-making in the context of "inbetweeness", an exhibition of two works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Judd Foundation. Finkelstein will join the conversation from 101 Spring Street at Judd Foundation where "inbetweeness" is currently on view (through Dec 18th). Godoy and Mismar will participate virtually; Mismar from his studio in Beirut and Godoy from #NYC. 🎟️ Register at #linkinprofile!
💥 Avram Finkelstein (@avramf) is an artist and writer, and a founding member of the Silence=Death and Gran Fury collectives.
💥 Camilo Godoy (camilogodoy) is an artist and educator born in Bogotá, Colombia and based in New York, United States. His multidisciplinary projects are concerned with political histories and memories.
💥Omar Mismar is a visual artist based in Beirut. His practice is project driven, probing the entanglement of art and politics, and the aesthetics of disaster. Mismar takes up conflict and its representations via form deliberations, material interventions, and translation strategies, using the performative as gesture and rehearsal.
#LeslieLohmanMuseum #JuddFoundation #FelixGonzalezTorres #OmarMismar #CamiloGodoy #AvramFinkelstein
TUEDAY, NOV 16th, 6:30 PM, we are thrilled to co-present with Judd Foundation (@juddfoundation) a conversation between Avram Finkelstein, curator of our current exhibition, "OMNISCIENT: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture" and participating artists Camilo Godoy and Omar Mismar. The conversation will focus on new approaches to monumentality, identity, and legacies of queer image-making in the context of "inbetweeness", an exhibition of two works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Judd Foundation. Finkelstein will join the conversation from 101 Spring Street at Judd Foundation where "inbetweeness" is currently on view (through Dec 18th). Godoy and Mismar will participate virtually; Mismar from his studio in Beirut and Godoy from #NYC. 🎟️ Register at the link below! https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S_-F8hRsSvm-8j9calNAuA
💥 Avram Finkelstein (@avramf) is an artist and writer, and a founding member of the Silence=Death and Gran Fury collectives.
💥 Camilo Godoy (camilogodoy) is an artist and educator born in Bogotá, Colombia and based in New York, United States. His multidisciplinary projects are concerned with political histories and memories.
💥Omar Mismar is a visual artist based in Beirut. His practice is project driven, probing the entanglement of art and politics, and the aesthetics of disaster. Mismar takes up conflict and its representations via form deliberations, material interventions, and translation strategies, using the performative as gesture and rehearsal.
#LeslieLohmanMuseum #JuddFoundation #FelixGonzalezTorres #OmarMismar #CamiloGodoy #AvramFinkelstein
T-1 DAY! Our one-of-a-kind, art-filled Gala party is TOMORROW, NOV 9th, 7-10 pm! Tickets are still available. Head to the #linkinprofile to get yours NOW!
This year’s Gala honors visionary artist Jeffrey Gibson (@jeffrune) and vanguard politician Annise Parker (@anniseparker). The evening will feature performances by devynn emory (@devynnemory), MX Oops (@mx_oops), and Narcissister (@therealnarcissister), with music by the talented The Illustrious Blacks (@theillustriousblacks) and br0nz3_g0dd3ss, along with dinner, dancing, and a chance to bid on some of the most exciting contemporary queer art. The celebration will unfold under the weird and wonderful roof of The Strangers, #NYC’s new immersive nightlife experience.
The Fall Gala is Leslie-Lohman’s most important fundraiser of the year, providing critical support for the Museum's multi-faceted exhibitions, programming and education. Join us for the festivities and embrace the power of the arts to inspire, explore, and foster understanding of the rich diversity of LGBTQ+ experiences! For TIX visit the #linkinprofile. Regrets are not an option, this will be an evening to remember!
#LeslieLohmanMuseum #LLMAGala2021
T-1 DAY! Our one-of-a-kind, art-filled Gala party is TOMORROW, NOV 9th, 7-11 pm! Tickets are still available. ➡️ Head to the #linkinprofile to get yours NOW!
This year’s Gala honors visionary artist Jeffrey Gibson (@jeffrune) and vanguard politician Annise Parker (@anniseparker). The evening will feature performances by devynn emory (@devynnemory), MX Oops (@mx_oops), and Narcissister (@therealnarcissister), with music by the talented The Illustrious Blacks (@theillustriousblacks) and br0nz3_g0dd3ss. There will be dinner, dancing, and a chance to bid on some of the most exciting contemporary queer art all unfolding under the weird and wonderful roof of The Strangers, #NYC’s new immersive nightlife experience.
The Fall Gala is Leslie-Lohman’s most important fundraiser of the year, providing critical support for the Museum's multi-faceted exhibitions, programming and education. Join us for the festivities and embrace the power of the arts to inspire, explore, and foster understanding of the rich diversity of LGBTQ+ experiences. Regrets are not an option, this will be an evening to remember!
🔥For TIX visit the #linkinprofile.
#LeslieLohmanMuseum #LLMAGala2021
[Event Artwork by Jeffrey Gibson. Design by Martin Perry and special thanks to Rune Olsen.]
TODAY #SpecialGuest 2Spirit photographer and storyteller Coyote Park (he/they) (@coyotepark) visited the Museum to explore our archives! Park discussed their art-making practice in conversation with specific works/artists in our collection that they draw inspiration from. Spending a few minutes with each work, Coyote touched on themes of QTBIPOC care, love and domesticity, TGNC identity, queer parenting, the photographic gaze, self-portraiture, and more! Learn about Coyote’s practice by following them @coyotepark and visit ⚡coyotepark.format.com⚡
These are the works Coyote discussed today!
🔥 fierce pussy, “fierce pussy,” 2008
🔥 Cathy Cade, “Last Days,” 1989
🔥 Zanele Muholi, “Being,” 2007
🔥 JEB (Joan E. Biren), “Gloria and Charmaine,” 1979
🔥 Zackary Drucker and Amos Mac, “Distance is Where the Heart is, Home is Where You Hang Your Heart #21,” 2011
🔥 Shari Diamond, “Wound Dressings,” 1993
🔥 Katrina Del Mar, “Glitter Girls,” 1999
🔥 Marcelina Martin, “Lillies,” 2002
🔥 Del LaGrace Volcano, “GENDER OPTIONAL: The Mutating Self Portrait,” 1999
Coyote Park (he/they) is a 2Spirit, mixed race (Korean, White, Native American) artist from Honolulu, Hawai'i that currently lives in Tongva Territory "Los Angeles". They are a photographer and storyteller who is Indigenous to California (from the Yurok tribe). Park focuses their work on their trans family, as they want to make images of people that they love and have shared lived experiences with. Celebrating the every day by documenting their home space and environments in building queer utopia. Their written work merges with their passion for image making and has come together in their photo book entitled "All Kin is Blood Kin" surrounding themes of family, rebirth, bodies, sexuality, and love. Storytelling is central to Park's art and cultural understanding of the world. Park's practice is community and collaboration oriented, as they make photographs with
Happy Tuesday! We are exactly two away from our Fall Gala, Tuesday, Nov. 9th! Do you have your tickets? Head to #linkinprofile and secure them today! 🎟 At this year’s Gala, we are thrilled to welcome multimedia performer and educator MX Oops (@mx_oops) to the stage🔥 MX’s work centers hybridity, encouraging ecstatic disobedience as a path toward embodied wellness. Working in a range of mediums including dance, video design, new media sculpture, costume, rap, and guided meditation, their work explores the nightclub as a queer site of transnational Afro-diasporic imagining.
For our Gala, MX will perform a remix of rap and vogue, colorfully reminding us that in nature, variation is the norm. The song, "Full Disclosure," produced by TRIGGERED MUSIC, honors nature as a mystery that can never be fully disclosed, inviting us deeper into the process of becoming. Their presence will be further extended through the evening's floral design that will draw creative direction from their series of new media sculptures, "transcoding shrines."💥 Sophie Stone, The Stranger’s floral event designer, will develop event-specific interpretations to illuminate the evening, inviting reflection on the meeting of nature, new media, and awareness.
MX is the creative director of transmedia production company, Complex Stability, exploring queer mysticism through crude metaphysics; a 2021-2022 CultureHub Experiments in Digital Storytelling Mentor and Researcher; and Assistant Professor teaching in Lehman College's Dance (BA) and Multimedia Performing Arts (BFA) Programs. Follow MX @mx_oops to keep abreast of their exciting projects AND to visit the #linkinprofile to save your seat to their special gala performance!
[Video: © MX Oops, "Full Disclosure" 2021. Makeup by @r_salles]
#LeslieLohmanMuseum #LLMAGala2021
Get your tickets TODAY! 🎟 The #LeslieLohmanMuseum Fall Gala, aka our grand coming out celebration is less than a month away! Join us on TUES, NOVEMBER 9TH at 7pm to honor visionary artist Jeffrey Gibson (@jeffrune) and vanguard politician Annise Parker (@anniseparker). This years celebration will take place at The Stranger, a brand NEW immersive nightlife experience poised to take over #NYC. Hosted by the talents of Artist Doron Langberg (@doronlangberg), Actor Jason Rodriguez (@thejasonarodriguez), Designer Martine Rose (@martine_rose), Creative Director Hillary Taymour (@_collina), and Activist, Writer and Organizer extraordinaire Raquel Willis (@raquel_willis). Curated by artist and honoree Jeffrey Gibson featuring powerful performances by devynn emory (@devynnemory), MX Oops (@mx_oops), and Narcissister (@therealnarcissister), all will unfold under The Strangers’ weird and wonderful roof with music by the talented Illustrious Blacks (@theillustriousblacks). Plus a digital auction featuring works by exciting LGBTQ+ artists hosted by @bidsquare in partnership with @fairchain.art. The evening is sponsored by @madremezcal. 🔥🔥 Regrets are not an option, this will be an evening to remember! 🔥🔥
➡Head to the #Linkinprofile to secure your tickets! And stay tuned here for more information about our honoree, performers, and hosts coming soon!
#LeslieLohmanMuseum #LLMAGala2021
Happy Friday! Today we’re looking at the video “Silent Cut”(2021) by multidisciplinary artist Chitra Ganesh (@chitraganeshbkny), currently on view in “OMNISCIENT: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture,”curated by @avramf.
In this almost 16 minutes long non-linear narrative Ganesh addresses subliminal processes of cultural colonization through a pastiche of re-edited silent-era cinematic genres, including science fiction and nature films. Comprised of clips from more than twenty shorts and features (including scenes from the 1927 film Metropolis), Ganesh’s montage offers a critique of Orientalist fantasias culled from “eastern” stereotypes and visions of the distant past. About the film Ganesh notes, “At the moment of its inception, early cinema served as a contemporary means of constructing and visualizing an “other,” often weaving distant historical eras with mythic and fairy tale tropes.”
Stop by the Museum TODAY through Sunday (12-6pm) to watch the full film and view works by more than 40 artists exploring queer iconography in the digital age.
Tickets strongly encouraged. Reserve via #LinkInProfile ⬆️
[🎥: Chitra Ganesh, “Silent Cuts” (1 min clip), 2012. (c) the artist.]
#SaveTheDate 💥 NOVEMBER 20, 6-11pm! Our one-of-a-kind, art-filled Gala party is on its way! Join us in celebrating visionary artist Jeffrey Gibson (@jeffrune) and vanguard politician Annise Parker (@anniseparker). The evening will include performances and visuals curated by Jeffrey Gibson, featuring @mx_oops @devynnemoryalong, and @therealnarcissister, with a dinner reception, dancing, and a chance to bid on some exciting contemporary queer art. Get your tickets TODAY at #Linkinprofile 🎉
#LeslieLohamMuseum is humbled to gather in celebration of these inspiring honorees, exemplifying the commitment and impact of the LGBTQ+ communities the Museum has partnered with through the challenges and successes of this past year.
We look forward to celebrating with you! #LLMAGALA2021
[Image: Event artwork by Jeffrey Gibson, Graphic design by Martin Perry and special thanks to Rune Olsen.]
[Raquel Gutiérrez: "Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell" for SMALL SCREENS]
Day With(out) Art 2020: TRANSMISSIONS