JULIE FOGARTY
   Straddling the intimacy of post coital vulnerability, Julie Fogarty does not introduce the other to an objectifying onlooker but rather aspects of her own field of vision to her own community. What we see when looking at her photographs is an extension of herself, her own world and the absence of performance, if only for a moment. Publicly, her subjects blatantly perform their gender, sexuality or socio-economic position. Through an extensive editing process and slow, thoughtful production, Fogarty enters this moment where these roles take a back seat, revealing a sometimes elegant and proud, sometimes exhausted and exposed reality. Whether it is a member of her family in the series "What's Wrong with Ma?," or her community in "Portraits in a Queer Time and Place" (selection exhibited here), we engage with the subjects, allowing ourselves to be seen by them as they look directly into our eyes. We are forced into the position which Fogarty herself takes as the photographer – we see the subject as she does, exposing not their or our own intimacy but her own.

SOPHIA WALLACE
   In her first solo exhibition, Sophia Wallace will be showing four large scale prints at the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation Window Gallery from her series--On Beauty--which is primarily concerned with gender and asthetics. With great emotion and tenderness, her subjects explore with great depth the psychology behind masculine representation. Her newest series, On Beauty, questions the representation of masculinity as a monolith of unwavering strength choosing instead to look at the loveliness, receptivity and vulnerablitiy of men.

About the Curator, Cora Lambert
Cora Lambert graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2007 and began curating exhibitions between New York and California. Cora has worked with Umbrage Editions, the Advocate and Gochis Galleries, Velvet Park Media and now serves on the Board of Directors at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.