Michelle Ross All images by and courtesy the artist. Tangent, 2021. Acrylic, oil, paper, silver leaf, graphite, pastel, colored pencil on panel. 24″ x 30″. I engage abstract painting as an analogy for queer embodiment. As such it has the…
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He Asked About the Quality
Areez Katki All images by and courtesy the artist. Areez Katki’s practice explores queer terrains through processes that include writing, embroidery, weaving, painting and printmaking. Born into a migrant Parsi (Zoroastrian) family, Areez is based between Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa…
Queerfacture
Jonathan VanDyke All images by and courtesy the artist. The Greens, 2019. Ink and water-based paints and dye on cotton fabrics, backed with dyed linen, with photos printed on archival canvas on verso. 68.8″ x 94.5″. I’m thinking through your…
SWITCH
Robbie Handcock All images by and courtesy the artist. All images intentionally uncaptioned. The first time I did mushrooms was only a year or so ago. From memory, it was after a fairly civilized dinner with a friend and a…
Boys Dancing
Sam Duckor-Jones All images by and courtesy the artist. My Johnny’s Gone To Hilo. Painted ceramic, Portage Ceramic Awards, 2014. Sam Duckor-Jones speaks to flambouyant recluse Clay Man about desire & queer expression for arty loners in 2021 Aotearoa. This…
Episode of Hands
Hart Crane The unexpected interest made him flush. Suddenly he seemed to forget the pain,– Consented, — and held out One finger from the others. The gash was bleeding, and a shaft of sun That glittered in and out among…
Love Sleep
Elsa Gidlow Watch my Love in sleep: Is she not beautiful As a young flower at night Weary and glad with dew? Pale curved body That I have kissed too much, Warm with slumber’s flush; Breasts like mounded snow, Too…
Glass Sleeper
Gregory Minissale In time the crescent hangs untraced again chased by the winged quadruped existence in its wake. Fire opens up the fists of trees; forests interdigitate blazing fingers every tree a hymn each branch rising. Your face acquires the…
A Letter Written In Queer Longing
Jasmine Fetterman I miss our walks I miss our time spent staring at nothing and at everything Watching the water move in and out Watching and feeling the willow branches sway and caress as her fingers lingered across the rippling…
Homage to the Auction Block
Steve Locke This work comes out of my direct engagement with color theory, portraiture and memory. The experience of working on Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie and the Auction Block Memorial have lead me into a new direction in painting.…