The Newsletter of the Queer Caucus for Art Vol. 21, No. 1 January 2009

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Caucus for Art, Artists & Historians

AIDS/ART/WORK the Graduate Center of CUNY (CLAGS), Visual AIDS, and the Australian Conference at CLAGS, Research Council. The short synopsis CUNY, , above does no justice to the value of the conference. I would personally like to May 30, 2008 thank the conference sponsors for a day The AIDS/ART/WORK conference that was not only informative, but well held Friday, May 30, brought together organized (plus the food was good!). a distinguished group of pro fessionals The important work of AIDS awareness from the art world, queer world, and and prevention, much of which has been AIDS activist/prevention world. a result of AIDS art, must go on. The first session presented a historical Larry Schulte, NYC artist overview of AIDS, including art that was made in response to the AIDS crises. As Tee A. Corinne Exhibition one who lived in NYC in the 80s, the history was not only thoroughly presented, and Celebration at but was also a moving remembrance of University of Oregon “Beverly”, 2006, SCARS Project, © Tee Corinne those years. There is a Tee Corinne Exhibition/ Papers, University of Oregon Libraries The second session dealt with art and Celebration at the University of Oregon University faculty and graduate students activism in the age of AIDS ranging Libraries in Eugene! I know she would and others on the topic of lesbian culture from militant art to art that expresses have been profoundly happy about the and representation. Following the dis- grief. It also covered the early years up exhibition and symposium at the home cussion, there will be a slide show of Ruth to current AIDS art. of her collected works. Mountaingrove’s photographs, which are also housed in Special Collections The third session dealt with collaborations WomanLove: The Life, Art, and Legacy of Tee and University Archives. and the futures. How do we effectively Corinne was on view from September 29 continue the fight to prevent AIDS, on through December 31 in Knight Library. The exhibition and symposium events both a local and a global level? The exhibition includes both photographs are sponsored by the UO Libraries, the These sessions were followed by a round- and writings. All works are from Special Center for the Study of Women in table discussion. One of the participants, Collections and University Archives. Society, and the Women’s and Gender Marilyn Martin, of the Iziko Museums There will be a short symposium about Studies Program at UO. They are curated of Cape Town, showed slides of moving Tee’s life and work (and about lesbian by Linda Long ([email protected]), contemporary art—which was a poignant culture and representation) on Monday, Manuscripts Librarian, who worked reminder to me that the AIDS crises still December 8 and Tuesday, December 9. with Tee very closely for years on the acquisition of her work by the library. exists as a matter of life and death in many On December 8 at 7pm, there will be a parts of the world. I am questioning my keynote address by Tirza Latimer. She’s a All these events are open to the public. This memory, but I believe she said that 1,000 distinguished queer scholar, a professor is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate people die every day in South Africa as of art history at the California College Tee Corinne’s life and art, and a fabulous a result of AIDS. of the Arts and a dear friend of Tee’s. reason to have a party in her honor! The conference was sponsored by The On Tuesday, December 9 in the morning Laurie Toby Edison Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at there will be a panel discussion with Tirza, [email protected] From the Co-Chairs Dear Queer-Arters, CALL for Happy New Year 2009! While this is our first Co-Chair communiqué in a few months, The Durbin Gallery of Birmingham- we have both been busy behind the scenes, moving various QCA projects forward. Southern College seeks entries for In late February CAA will meet in and we have several of our own Visibilities: the Art of Negotiating activities lined up: the QCA business meeting takes place on Thursday, February 26, ARTISTSIdentity, an invitational exhibition to at 5:30 pm; after our confab—always a great place to greet old friends and meet new be held October 2- 31, 2009. The colleagues—we hope folks will proceed directly to the “closing event” for the exhibition will explore the constantly QCA-organized exhibition queercraft, curated by Joon Oluchi Lee, on view at the evolving definition of gay, lesbian, LA Gay & Lesbian Center. On Friday, February 27, Jenni Sorkin is heading up a bisexual, trans gendered, and questioning lunchtime panel entitled “Queering Craft,” whose short talks by four speakers people; and the ways in which artists promises to engender provocative discussion. negotiate the varied and shifting currents Our Facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8932588033) of sexual identity, visibility, or invisibility continues to attract new enthusiasts, while the email list-serv connects us all across in their work. All media will be considered. the country and around the world. Keeping your membership current (http:// Submissions are due May 1, 2009. artcataloging.net/glc/glcn993m.html) is a quick and easy way to support the QCA, Please forward name, mailing and email but as an affiliated society dependent on volunteers, we welcome you all to plug in address, 10-20 digital images, and brief as you are able to assist with the myriad administrative tasks that ensure our continued artist statement to Dr. Tim Smith, presence and programming. During the year ahead, you might consider the possibility Department of Art and Art History, of curating a show or putting together a lunchtime panel for CAA in Chicago 2010… Birmingham-Southern College, 900 or throwing your hat into the ring to lead the Queer Caucus for the 2010–2012 term! Arkadelphia Road, Box 549021, Birmingham, AL, 35254; [email protected]; Speaking of which: it is hard to believe that Los Angeles already marks the half-way (205) 226-7875. For complete exhibit point of our tenure as Co-Chairs. It has been a privilege to work with you all to prospectus and more on the Durbin this point and we anticipate an equally productive year ahead. Gallery and Birmingham-Southern Yours in queer visuality, College, see http://www.bsc.edu/ Lacey Jane Roberts and Jonathan F. Walz, Co-Chairs academics/art/durbin.htm

Business Meeting hierarchies. The artists featured in the show Date and Time: Thursday, February 26, are not (just) “queer” artists who are 5:30 pm–7:00 pm practicing craft, but artists exploring this Location: Concourse Meeting Room 409AB, tender boundary between queer and craft, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center between identity and process, to make queercraft work that inspires us to radicalize our own conceptions of our gendered selves. The Advocate & Gochis Galleries Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center Roundtable: Queering Craft The Village at Ed Gould Plaza Date and Time: Friday, February 27, 1125 N. McCadden Place 12:30 pm–2:00 pm Los Angeles, CA 90038 Location: West Hall Meeting Room 502B, January 22 to February 28, 2009 Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center Curated by Joon Oluchi Lee Closing event: Thursday, February 26, Chair: Jenni Sorkin, Yale University 6:00 pm–9:00 pm The Feminist Craft Corner, Miki Foster, QCA’s 2009 show, queercraft is a return to University of California, Santa Cruz the origins of “queer,” via the future of “craft.” Faggotstitch, Jesse M. Kahn, The show is predicated upon the idea that independent artist, queerness and craft are fascinatingly, Identity Crisis: Reimagining Craft productively, blurred. “Queer” is not a just Using Queer Tactics, Lacey Jane Roberts, verb or identity, it is a process. “Craft” is independent artist, not just process or genre, it is an identity. The two are conceptual twins, separated at Discussant: Julia Bryan-Wilson, birth for the maintenance of functionless University of California, Irvine

page 2 of 5 The Newsletter of the Queer Caucus for Art Vol. 21, No. 1 January 2009 News of Members Michael Buitron had two booths in the Visible means at the Duluth Art Museum Tom of Finland is a new flavor of perfume CalArts MFA show in Chinatown, Los (Aug.–Oct. 2008); Tuff stuff at the from Etat Libre d’Orange. Wonder what Angeles. The booths were in David Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe (June it smells like. www.etatlibredorange.com Salow Gallery and in an Elysian Park 20–Sept. 14, 2008); Pink and bent at (short news item in Gay times, Apr. 2008) cruising area; the work in the gallery the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Vagner Whitehead’s video “World music 2” (“Social space 1”) included a parterre- New York (Apr. 28–July 11, 2008); and was featured at the CineSlam GLBT style garden filled with debris scavenged A.I.R. Gallery retrospective: 1972–1979 at Liberation Shorts Film Festival, Kopkind from the park. The work was pictured the Werkstatte Gallery, New York (May Colony, Guilford, Vt. on June 14th and in the review in the Los Angeles Times. 2–June 14, 2008). She will be a visiting his work “Brazilian for rent” was included Laurie Toby Edison’s portrait of Fukazawa artist at Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO, in “All hot and bothered,” a group show Junko was awarded “Most Feminist” in September 2009. An article entitled at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, the art show at Wiscon (World Feminist “Queerly made: Harmony Hammond’s New Paltz, opened on July 11th. His Science Fiction convention). Laurie was floorpieces” by Julia Bryan-Wilson will “World music 2” and “Dance party” on a panel on Women of Japan with be published in a forthcoming issue of were featured at the IV International collaborator Debbie Notkin and models the Journal of modern craft. Festival of Contemporary Art The Body Mari Kotani and Manami Tachibana. Rinaldo Hopf was included in one of the Navigation, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Barbara Hammer was selected as one of shows in the Jordaan Quarter of July 6–12. the “Women We Love” by Go! magazine Amsterdam, opening on July 31, 2008 for its 2008 Pride issue. and celebrating “Go pink with pride!” www.rinaldohopf.com Calendar Tirza True Latimer is the chair for the MA program in visual and critical studies at Items are listed in the calendar even if they the California College of the Arts. CCA are now past; this is done in the interest of offers a supportive environment in which having a record of relevant art exhibitions, to study visual culture from a queer etc. The editors welcome reviews of these perspective. For more info: www.cca.edu/ or other LGBT art events and activities. academics/graduate/visualcriticalstudies/ 2007 Laura Migliorino and Anthony Marchetti May 12-June 23 were represented in “The hidden suburbs: “Who do you say that I a portrait” at the IFP in Minneapolis, am? Visions of Christ, gender and justice” opening May 17. Laura had three pieces - JHS Gallery, Taos, N.M. - with Jesus in the Minnesota Print Biennial at paintings by F. Douglas Blanchard and Katherine Nash Gallery at the University Becki Jayne Harrelson, part of National of Minnesota, opened October 10th. Festival of Progressive Spiritual Art, co- sponsored by www.JesusInLove.org and Joan Snyder was a 2007 recipient of a www.jhsgallery.com MacArthur Foundation fellowship. /Small Erasure #1/, 1999. Photocopy, acrylic, white- 2008 out, latex dental dams, glass, 10 x 8". Collection of Linda Stein is the art editor for the Lester Strong. Courtesy Dwight Hackett projects, online revival of On the issues: the March 24-28 “Pharos” - works by Blaine Santa Fe. © HarmonyHammond/VAGA progressive woman’s magazine. www. Anderson (MFA show) - Pratt Institute, www. Harmony Hammond’s current and recent ontheissuesmagazine.com Steuben West Gallery, Brooklyn blaineanderson.com list of exhibitions include works in Art Robert Summers became a board member on paper 2008 at the Weatherspoon Art of Telic Arts Exchange (www.telic.info). April 11-May 11 “Kim Russo: the beauty Museum, Greensboro, NC (Oct. 19, He read a paper “Pictures that queer” of it all” - Spector Ripps Project Space, 2008–Jan. 25, 2009); WACK! art and the at the Los Angeles Queer Studies Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe feminist revolution at the Vancouver Art Conference in October 2008 and is through April 13 “Derek Jarman” - curated Gallery (Oct. 4, 2008–Jan. 18, 2009); co-chair (with Michael du Plessis) of a by Isaac Julien - Serpentine Gallery, ARAC@AAM: Anderson Ranch at the panel “Intersectional queer visualities” Aspen Art Museum (Oct. 30–Dec. 7, at the Association of Art Historians in April 26-May 24 “John Sonsini” - Acme, 2008); A.I.R.: the history show at A.I.R. Manchester, England, April 2009. Los Angeles www.acmelosangeles.com Gallery, New York (Oct.–Nov. 2008);

The Newsletter of the Queer Caucus for Art Vol. 21, No. 1 January 2009 page 3 of 5 Calendar, continued men, and Women of Japan - Minato September 12-October 30 “Alter-skins” - Women’s Center, , as part of Gender works by Nick Cave - Fosdick-Nelson May 3-31 “The master’s tools (decay goes Equality Forum, with theme “Women’s Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY both ways): new work by Lacey Jane health and body image” - curated by September 13-February 8, 2009 “Andy Warhol: Roberts” - Little Tree Gallery, 3412 22nd Fukazawa Junko www.kissport.or.jp/ St., San Francisco www.littletreegallery.com other voices, other rooms” - Wexner sisetu/libra/index.html Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH May 6-June 7 “Claudio Bravo: recent June 19-22 “The audacity of desperation” September 18-November 1 “Blake Little: the work” - Marlborough, 40 West 57th St., - the work of Jessica Lawless, presented by New York www.marlboroughgallery.com company of men” - Wessel + O’Connor PS122 Gallery at DEMO Space 122, New Fine Art, 111 Front St., Brooklyn, NY May 10-June 21 “Terence Koh: the whole York desperationexhibition.blogspot.com 11201 wesseloconnor.com family” - Peres Projects, 969 Chung King June 24-July 19 “Scene change: NY gallery Rd., Los Angeles www.peresprojects.com September 23-November 1 “The line of artists’ group show” - curated by Emily fashion: an exhibition of works by the May 17 “Love art laboratory” - performance Harris - A.I.R. Gallery, 511 West 25th St., great fashion artists” - Leslie/Lohman and wedding of Annie Sprinkle and New York - artists included Nancy Azara Gay Art Foundation, 26 Wooster St., Elizabeth Stephens, in the Shakespeare June 28-August 3 “Side x side” - curated New York www.leslielohman.org Glen amphitheater at University of by Dean Daderko - La MaMa La Galleria, California, Santa Cruz September 25-January 18, 2009 “Warhol and 6 East 1st St., New York - co-sponsored by music” - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts May 20-September 18 “Pencil and paper” Visual AIDS www.thebody.com/visualaids - including works by Michael Meads - - accompanied by newsprint catalog September 26-January 5, 2009 “Catherine Opie” - Guggenheim Museum, New York Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery, Loyola July 10-August 22 “History keeps me awake University, New Orleans at night: a genealogy of Wojnarowicz” - September 27-January 4, 2009 “Political May 23-September 14 “Philip-Lorca diCorcia” P.P.O.W., 555 W. 25th St., New York Andy” [Warhol] - Currier Museum of - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - www.ppowgallery.com Art, Manchester, NH works from the last twenty years www. July 11-October 5 “Sheila Pepe: Red Hook September 30-October 25 “Selected lacma.org at Bedford Terrace” - Smith College works: Carbone, Grimes & Webb” - May 30 “AIDS/art/work” - conference Museum of Art, Northampton, MA Painting Center, 52 Greene St., New York sponsored by CLAGS and Visual AIDS, www.smith.edu/artmuseum/general/ - Webb = caucus member Patrick Webb held at CUNY Graduate Center, New (artist’s statement available on website) October 2-January 4, 2009 “George Tooker: York - reviewed by Ted Kerr at opening July 11 Angie Piehl - Chashama a retrospective” - National Academy of newsgrist.typepad.com/visualaids/2008/06/ Gallery, 217 E. 42nd St., New York Design, New York aidsartwork--r.html July 18-31 “Self-portraits” - Larry Collins opening October 3 “Crime drama” - new through May 31 “Skin” - photographs by Fine Art, 145 Commercial St., Provincetown, work by Andrew Robinson - curated by John Bowman - AxD Gallery, 265 S. MA - with a work by Aaron Krach Gabriela Alva - Eye Level Gallery at 10th St., Philadelphia www.a-x-d.com Victor Osborne Atelier, 364 Leonard July 19-November 15 “Andy Warhol and St., Brooklyn www.victorosborne.com June-September “Leaves: a tribute to those other famous faces” - Maryhill Museum we’ve lost” - works by Eric Rhein - Campbell of Art, Goldendale, WA October 3-January 11, 2009 “Gilbert & Soady Gallery, LGBT Community George” - www. Center, New York www.gaycenter.org August 28-November 16 “Visible means: brooklynmuseum.org observations of queer experience” - curated June 7-28 “Queerity” - curated by Zee by Robert Repinski, with works by October 4-February 15,2009 “Andy Warhol Boudreaux and Tamara Loewenstein - Harmony , Daniel Heyman, Sallie portfolios: life & legends” - Mint Museum Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco McCorkle, Laura E. Migliorino, and of Art, Charlotte, NC www.millionfishes.com others including Nan Goldin, Kiki opening October 4 “Private dancer: a June 14-August 24 “Marsden Hartley Smith, and David Wojnarowicz premiere exhibition freaturing the erotic and the West: the search for an American September 8-December 24 “Until that artwork of Warren K. Bradley, Anthony modernism - Amon Carter Museum, last breath! women with HIV/AIDS” - Gonzalez, Edwin Lopez” - Chi Chiz, 135 Fort Worth www.cartermuseum.org work by Ann P. Meredith - Byerly Hall, Christopher St., New York - sponsored June 14-September 21 “Gewoon anders! Radcliffe College, in celebration of the by Men of Color Creating Art = Just different! - Cobra Museum voor acquisition of Meredith’s papers by the October 12-January 25, 2009 “Warhol’s Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, Netherlands Schlesinger Library in spring 2008 Jews” - Contemporary Jewish Museum, June 17-29 photographs by Laurie Toby www.radcliffe.edu/events/ San Francisco Edison from Women en large, Familiar calendar_2008breath.aspx

page 4 of 5 The Newsletter of the Queer Caucus for Art Vol. 21, No. 1 January 2009 Calendar, continued exhibition (including QCA member January 30-April 5 “George Tooker” - Vagner M. Whitehead) - Galerie Lisi Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, October 15-December 5 “George Ohr Haemerle, Bregenz, Austria Philadelphia rising: the emergence of an American master” - Schein-Joseph International November 19-December 20 “Imaginary February (concurrent with CAA 2009) “@” Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred University, portraits: gay lovers in history” - Leslie/ videos curated by Vagner M. Whitehead Alfred, NY www.ceramicsmuseum. Lohman Gay Art Foundation, 26 Wooster (QCA member), Southern California alfred.edu St., New York www.leslielohman.org Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, sponsored by CAA New Media Caucus October 23-26 “Red Badge of Courage November 19-December 20 “Images from ReVisited” - work by Andrew Robinson the triangle: the AIDS paintings of February 13-15 “Seeing queerly: reading - part of Open Doors, Newark Arts Peter Harvey” - Leslie/Lohman Gay Art visual art as intertextual representation” Council www.newarkarts.org/opendoors/ Foundation, 26 Wooster St., New York - session organized by Helen Langa at aboutod.html www.leslielohman.org the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, American University, October 23-November 22 “Gracious dictator: November 19-December 20 “Cyberotic: large-format oil paintings by SPIKE” - Washington, DC www.american.edu/ the seduction of power: an installation cas/anthro/lavenderlanguages/sessions.cfm by Mark Beard” - ClampArt, 521-531 Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, W. 25th St., New York www.clampart.com 26 Wooster St., New York www. February 14-May 17 “Warhol and music” leslielohman.org - De Young Museum, San Francisco October 31 “AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs’ Invocation of the Queer Spirits” - November 19-December 20 “2,117 days February 15-April 26 “Andy Warol: pop Creative Time project, Lower Ninth of silence: an installation by Nathaniel politics” - Neuberger Museum of Art, Ward, New Orleans, La. www. Siegel” - Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Purchase, NY creativetime.org/invocation Foundation, 26 Wooster St., New York February 15-June 7 “Andy Warhol: www.leslielohman.org November 3-December 2 five-person snapshots” - Neuberger Museum of Art, exhibition (including caucus member through November 21 “”Joe Barbella: in Purchase, NY Larry Schulte) at Hewitt Gallery of Art, your face” - Behind Closed Doors February 20-21 “Postwar queer underground Marymount Manhattan College, NY Gallery, 752 S. 4th St., Philadelphia cinema, 1950-1968” - conference, Yale November 8-December 17 “Face to face: University, organized by the Yale Research portraits of fathers in Philadelphia and 2009 Initiative on the History of Sexualities www.yale.edu/yrihs other new work by Daniel Heyman” - November 29-January 3, 2009 “Mark Marguerite & James Hutchins Gallery, Yankus: the point of secret” - ClampArt, March 7-April 12 “Contemporary Flânerie: Gruss Center of Visual Arts, Lawrenceville 521-531 W. 25th St., New York www. Reconfiguring Cities” - curated by Vagner School, Lawrenceville, NJ www. clampart.com M. Whitehead - Oakland University lawrenceville.org November 29-January 4, 2009 group Gallery, Rochester, MI November 12-December 13 “Maxine Fine: exhibition (including QCA member March 18-April 25 “The art of Marco a retrospective” - curated by Flavia Vagner M. Whitehead) “Made in Detroit” Silombria” - curated by Peter Weiermair Rando - Gallery Onetwentyeight, - Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin, Germany - Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, 26 128 Rivington St., New York www. www.leslielohman.org December 8-April 30, 2009 “The Center Wooster St., New York galleryonetwentyeight.org story: an archival exhibition: the first 25 March 19-21 “Caravaggio: reflections November 14-December 5 “Queering years” - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & and refractions” - session organized by popular media” - curated by Jamillah Transgender Community Center, New Lorenzo Pericolo and David M. Stone, James - Frontier Projects, 30 South York www.gaycenter.org at Renaissance Society of America Calvert St., Baltimore www. January 9-10 The 11th Annual Postcards Annual Conference, Los Angeles currentspace.com from the Edge: a benefit for Visual AIDS March 28 “Feminism now: symposium opening November 15 “Domestic utensils” - hosted by Metro Pictures, New York for new scholarship” - - group show with Michael Buitron, www.visualaids.org Brooklyn Museum Astri Swendsrud, Nikki Pressley, and January 18-April 26 Andy Warhol: silver May 1-September 6 “George Tooker” - Betsy Hunt - curated by Diana-Sofia gelatin prints and Polaroids - Neuberger Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Estrada - COMA Alternative Space, Los Museum, SUNY Purchase Angeles imoralist.blogspot.com/ May 20-June 27 “Drawn together: works 2008/11/you-are-invited.html January 18-May 3 “Political Andy” [Warhol] on paper by men drawing together” - - Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, 26 November 15-December 13 “Changing Wooster St., New York www.leslielohman.org Cities: Detroit - Bregenz” - group

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