Please be advised that the Museum has reopened and is enforcing social distancing guidelines. Timed ticketing is suggested.
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THROUGH MAY 25, 2021
THROUGH OCT, 2021
THROUGH MAY, 2021
![Congratulation Courtney Webster (@princepantherpants) and Meg Turner (@megprinter) winners of the 2021 Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers! “Untitled” (2016) from their ongoing series, PATRICIDE was exhibited in our 2017 exhibition, "Expanded Visions: Fifty Years of Collecting" and is part of the #LeslieLohmanCollection. Learn more about their practice below:
Reposted from @robertgiardfoundation:
Meg Turner @megprinter is a photographer and printmaker whose work focuses on queer fantasy and contemporary critique. Her first solo museum show Here & Now opened at @cacnola in 2019.
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Courtney Webster @princepantherpants is an independent film director, producer, and media accessibility activist. She most recently produced the Thank God For Abortion anthem video with the artist Viva Ruiz.
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Courtney and Meg began their collaborative photo practice in 2015. Their series PATRICIDE interrogates dominant culture and its reproduction of tropes that reinforce the image of the ideal or heroic body as almost exclusively a white male body. By centering a queer person of color (Webster) as an heroic or swoon-worthy protagonist, the artists make visible an alternate lexicon wherein the erased and invisible become seen, empowered, and celebrated.
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PATRICIDE has been shown in part at the New York gallery @wildprojectnyc , with accompanying street murals, and has been featured in the UK Magazine @heroine_mag . Individual works from the series have been shown in New York at @leslielohmanmuseum , @bgsqd , @bricbrooklyn , and @wallachartgallery ; and in New Orleans at @u.n.o_gallery .
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And much more to come! We can’t wait to see what the next year holds for Meg and Courtney.
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[📷 : Turner and Webster, PATRICIDE, 2016.]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/183663665_504828254207102_1968763901465668978_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=VaQeYkOyDW4AX9i-MZh&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=53ba516725e551bc81d81e4a297a5e45&oe=60C2302F)
![On this Mother’s Day, we’re celebrating mothers and caregivers of all kinds and paying tribute to mothers from chosen family structures. Two powerful and influential examples are LGBTQ+ civil rights activists Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson who became mothers to many after founding Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries or more commonly known as STAR in 1970. STAR supported, housed, and protected housing insecure queer youth and sex workers in Lower Manhattan. The organization set the blueprint and precedent for many future organizations with similar goals, like @aliforneycenter and @glits_inc to name a few.
Happy, happy Mother’s Day to our trans mothers and caregivers, to chosen families looking after each other, to those whose mothers or parents are no longer with us, to folks who were caregivers, and to everyone who wants to be a parent in the future. We celebrate you. ✨
This image shows Marsha P. Johnson holding a sign that reads “STAR PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE”, taken by Diana Davies.
[📸: Diana Davies, 1971, “Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York” (Marsha P. Johnson) #LeslieLohmanCollection]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/183953295_289130396185154_6222350747034821164_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=x7oA-GSuyzsAX9UloZ2&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=eba22bb2c252e50f58081b89d672e652&oe=60BFD498)
![Christopher Unpezverde Núñez is part of a long lineage of artists who use performance to engage with and navigate grief and trauma. ⚡️ Thursday, May 20, 7 PM join Unpezverde Núñez, for a screening of his performance “YO OBSOLETE” as part of "Dissolution", on view through May 25.
Christopher Unpezverde Núñez is a Visually Impaired choreographer, performance artist, educator, curator, LLM Artist Fellow, and accessibility consultant based in New York City. His performance “YO OBSOLETE”, uses personal objects and ephemera to create memory associations of his childhood sexual and physical abuse. The playful use of these objects act as a guided ritual to cope with grief and trauma, and use a collage-like gathering of obsolete objects to represent a queer and disabled imaginary world.
Part 2 of “Dissolution” features works of art by the artists in the first two cohorts of the annual Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship (2017-2019).
➡️ Head to the link in our profile to RSVP!
#LeslieLohmanMuseum #ChristopherUnpezverdeNúñez #LLMArtistFellowship
[📸:: (c)Walter Wlodarczyk, courtesy of The Immigrant Artist Biennial (@theimmigrantartistbiennial).]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/181990684_204111737996744_2705274554680255918_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=hnYtCWVfQlkAX8RLU8t&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=1510adf0436b8dc651cb35fc2a6117ef&oe=60BF25DC)
![¡Alerta de programa! El próximo martes 11 de mayo a las 3 pm (hora de NYC) 📣 Te invitamos a participar junto a lx artistx y educadorx Catalina Schliebener a un recorrido virtual en español que destaca algunas de las obras de nuestra exposición actual "Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell". Este programa de una hora invita a visitantes de todas las edades a participar en un debate activo sobre las obras expuestas.
➡️ Puedes registrarte para este tour en el link de nuestro perfil (bio).
“Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell” es la primera retrospectiva integral de la fotógrafa Laura Aguilar (1959-2018) que reúne más de 70 obras producidas a lo largo de tres décadas. A través de fotografías y videos que son frecuentemente políticos y personales, y que atraviesan géneros de arte performativo, feminista y queer, Aguilar ofrece representaciones sinceras de sí misma, sus amigxs y familiares, y las comunidades LGBTQ+ y Latinx d elas que fomaba parte.
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Program Alert! Next Tuesday, May 11th at 3 PM EDT 📣 Join Leslie-Lohman teaching-artist Catalina Schliebener for a virtual tour highlighting works from our current exhibition "Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell". This one hour program invites visitors of all ages to participate in active discussion around the works on view.
➡️ Sign up for this tour via the link in our profile.
“Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell” is the first comprehensive retrospective of photographer Laura Aguilar (1959-2018) assembling more than 70 works produced over three decades. Through photographs and videos that are frequently political as well as personal, and which traverse performative, feminist, and queer art genres, Aguilar offers candid portrayals of herself, her friends and family, and LGBTQ+ and Latinx communities.
[📸: Laura Aguilar, Stillness #25, 1999, © Laura Aguilar / collection of @vpam_arts and @lacma.]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/181625802_1139839236455290_6171247120163964857_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=tbN90YyIARoAX-qTgr2&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=9a7dc4f4006fc162de936405c7b8583f&oe=60C23C30)
![“The public has a right to art … Art is for everybody.”
— Keith Haring
Today we celebrate the life and work of artist and activist, Keith Haring. Haring was born on May 4th, 1958, and would have been 63 today had he not lost his life to AIDS related complications in 1990. Throughout his career, he devoted much of his time to public works, which often carried social messages. Haring was a major contributor to the New York City street art movement of the 1980s and gained international recognition through his public drawings using chalk to create stylized images on unused black advertising panels on the NYC subway.
Haring’s commitment to accessible art continued with the opening of his store, the Pop Shop in downtown Manhattan in 1986 aiming to make his work accessible to people outside the fine art market. His legacy can be seen today through his artistic achievements, activism, and philanthropy. An active member of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) Haring’s work helped counter mainstream images of HIV/AIDS and challenge the silence and stigma surrounding the desease. In the last year of his life, Haring established The Keith Haring Foundation (@keithharingfoundation) to assist children and organizations dedicated to the education, prevention, and care related to AIDS.
The world is a better place for having Keith Haring in it. Happy Birthday, Keith 💕
#KeithHaring #LeslieLohmanMuseum #ACTUP
[📷: Don Herron, “Keith Haring”, 1982. #LeslieLohmanCollection]
💥Fun fact just in from @nytimes critic, @guytrebay: Don Herron's bathtub series was originally commissioned by Trebay for The Village Voice Centerfold section. The image was part of a larger series of commissions including a roster of downtown personages.](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/180872158_1365399230509254_5029568397562500961_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=dsuugcMvHiUAX-NsbMr&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=e2eb10e16eabfcae308a75735df41dc8&oe=60C23958)
![Salvador Muñoz (@salmunoz.jpg)’s work explores and celebrates queer femmes of color. His most recent series, “Xochipilli Floral Studies” (2020) examines the pre-colonial lineages of queer femininity in Mexican cultural history. Muñoz traces this lineage to the Mexica deity, Xochipill—an Aztec god representing the power and fertility of plants and flowers. Their research and inspiration for this work is based on the statue of Xochipilli exhibited in the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico City (@mnantropologia). Each of Muñoz’s floral studies corresponds to one of the statue’s carvings. He notes, “The significant role [Xochipilli] occupied points to a cultural understanding and acceptance of various forms of queerness that colonialism has erased.”
Part 2 of Dissolution (on view through May 25) features this work alongside works of art by the artists in the first two cohorts of the annual Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship (2017--2019) including Salvador Muñoz, Boris Torres (@boristorres), Caitlin Rose Sweet (@caitlinrosesweet, Carrie Hawks (@maroonhorizon), Christopher Unpezverde Núñez, Desireena Almoradie (@deswad), #FrederickWeston, Jason Villegas (@chubbytanuki), Lola Flash (@flash9), Nash Glynn (@nashglynn), and Seyi Adebanjo (@tengade_productions).
[📷 : Salvador Muñoz, “Xochipilli Floral Studies #4”, (2020). Courtesy the artist.]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/180811903_327218125417674_1283261773923965040_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=3ULJelOv-7cAX-7Ebp1&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=4b947d710b066a059bd3d715e88e5131&oe=60BF4280)
![If you’ve visited our current exhibition “Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell” you might notice some similar themes between Anne Burlock Lawver’s photographs on view in “UNADORNED” at our #SANInstaswap2021 partner, Soho Photo Gallery (@sohophotogallery) and Laura Aguilar’s (1956 - 1981).
Throughout her practice Aguilar explored the invisibility of people in her community: people of color, women, large bodied people, LGBTQ+ groups, and most significantly, herself. She photographed her own large, Latina, lesbian body as way to embrace herself. In her current exhibition @sohophotogallery, Lawver also photographs her own body, specifically her agaig femme body as a way to find acceptance, celebrate, and make visible the strength and beauty of the body of an aging woman in a society that marginalizes female bodies across the spectrum of gender, age, identity, race and ability.
Head to @sohophotogallery today through May 20th to visit Lawver’s exhibition, “UNADORNED”!
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The Soho Arts Network (SAN) fosters collaboration between non-profit art spaces in and around New York City’s SoHo neighborhood.
Founded in 2014 by non-profit arts organizations, the network celebrates the rich history of this unique creative community and works to advance its cultural contributions to residents and visitors.
Current members who are partnering in the InstaSwap event include apexart, Center for Italian Modern Art (@italianmodernart), Dia Art Foundation (@diaartfoundation), The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation (@rcg_foundation), Grey Art Gallery, New York University (@nyugrey), Leslie-Lohman Museum of of Art (@leslielohmanmuseum), Milton Resnick, and Pat Pasloff Foundation (@resnickpasslof) and the SoHo Photo Gallery (@sohophotogallery).
[Images 1-2: © Anne Burlock Lawver, 2021]
#LeslieLohmanMuseum #SohoPhotoGallery #AnneBurlockLawver #SANInstaSwap2021](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/178958707_138418361529369_1933754013797105427_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=GjJ33afUcM4AX9DFsyx&_nc_oc=AQn6yjQivDaRtVldeLLXEGBjG--Z4rCEBkZanUuzYgz29-9Q6Ncp2VoX5F-ZJqNa7tA&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=a3d91b2395bb5457c0aeae4e3fefcd0f&oe=60BFFF8B)
![Happy Friday! We’re heading into the weekend with a visit to our friends and fellow Soho Arts Network (SAN) partner, Soho Photo Gallery (@sohophotogallery) for the first ever #SANInstaSwap2021! Both LLM and Soho Photo Gallery are members of SAN, a network that fosters collaboration between non-profit art spaces in and around NYC’s SoHo neighborhood.
Established in 1971, Soho Photo Gallery is one of the oldest continuously open cooperatively-run photography galleries in America. Throughout the day we will be sharing images from one of their current exhibits, “UNADORNED”, by photographer Anne Burlock Lawver (she/her). The show features a series of nude self-portraits centering on Lawver’s own aging female body. Stripped of the armor of clothing/adornment Lawver’s photographs confront the misogynous youth obsessed ideals around what types of bodies are acceptable and/or desirable. Lawver has said “This project began as a way of exploring the transformation that took place daily as I used make-up and clothes to create a desired illusion. Stripping away of that mask I had created became more and more the subject of the photographs—the moments of stillness, of resignation, the moments of acceptance of the body unadorned and exposed.”
Follow along today to learn more about Lawver’s work and the Soho Arts Network (SAN)!
[All 📷: © Anne Burlock Lawver, 2021]
#LeslieLohmanMuseum #SohoPhotoGallery #AnneBurlockLawver #SANInstaswap2021](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/179099537_325922775548626_4122019343534835581_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=lipceNoQt-oAX_rYTEO&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=27211a302aee5abab737e0a31ca4ea9e&oe=60C2CD40)
![Happy #InternationalDayofDance! We’re looking at this photograph of #MarthaGraham (1894-1991), the influential American modern dancer and choreographer performing in “Cave of the Heart” with sets designed by #IsamuNoguchi (1904–1988) from our exhibition “Other Points of View” (2020).
Graham’s piece, based on the story of “Medea” premiered in 1946 with Graham in the role of the mythological enchantress. Throughout the performance, Noguchi’s “Spider Dress” stood at the front of the stage, a silent witness to the unfolding drama. At the finale, Medea slipped into Noguchi’s cage-like framework, writhing as if consumed by flames. Graham once wrote that she shared “an unspoken language” with Noguchi, and he once said, “I felt that I was an extension of Martha and that she was an extension of me.”
[📷: “Martha Graham with Spider Dress and Serpent by Isamu Noguchi”, 1946. Photograph: (c) Cris Alexander. Collection of @noguchimuseum.]
#LeslieLohmanMuseum #OtherPointsOfView](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/178487049_496624374819573_9191865367171903826_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=2F3iZ3kiXD0AX9tqrrg&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=54e2bc93c36e68d1015b4c0f601f7f9b&oe=60C01F27)
![On this #EarthDay, 2021 we’re looking at Nash Glynn (@nashglynn)’s video “LOVER EARTH (YOU USED ME)” (2018), now on view in our exhibition, “Dissolution”, through 5/30. Inspired by the protests of the 1960s and efforts by Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day began as a “national teach-in on the environment” and a way to bring environmental causes into the national spotlight.
Glynn (b. 1992) is a transdisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, performance, video and photography. This video is part of Glynn’s larger series, Lover Earth (2014-18), which interrogates the climate crisis and its connection to the body politic. In this work, Glynn’s persona Lover Earth repeatedly states, “YOU USED ME” against a landscape covered in pumpjacks, used to extract liquid from oil wells. Lover Earth speaks to the viewer as a partner in a toxic relationship that has endured intense conditions of violence against an ultimately uninhabitable land. This positioning of the dynamic between the destruction of mother earth and the abusers (humans) asks us to consider; will we break the cycle? Would Lover Earth take us back?
Speaking to the relationship between trans-femininity and climate change in a recent issue of @gayletter, Glynn notes, “I think climate change threatens essentialist gender ideologies because it wears down the boundary between nature and artifice. I believe in order to adapt and successfully mitigate climate change would require a reevaluation of essentialist gender ideologies because nature can no longer be separate from culture. In that case too, history is no longer exclusively human because we can see it in the glacial mounds from the industrial revolution, and it’s in the air, and it’s in the water. It challenges the binary logic of domination that allows for this environmental colonization.”
What are you doing to support the environment today? Share your actions & #EarthDay events in the comments below! We’re joining “NO WORK, NO SHOP: Socio-Environmental Imagination and Pedagogies of Action” at the @veralistcenter (🔗 in profile).
#LeslieLohmanMuseum
[📷: #NashGlynn, “Lover Earth (YOU USED ME)”, 2018. Video performance [still]. © the artist.]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/175900174_519167639254706_1743182666167735789_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=REgp8NpYtoEAX-e0xY3&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=4a43292335d3ae8ca38d354f6a180578&oe=60C025EB)
![Happy birthday, Greer Lankton 🎉❤️! Today we’re celebrating the artist on what would have been her 63rd birthday. Lankton (1958-1996), known for her impressionistic dolls of friends and icons, also created artist books featuring her drawings and photographs, three of which we hold in our permanent collection. Two of the books, including “My Face” and “Medical Magic”, have received some critical attention in recent years. However one lesser-known, untitled book, which was included in the recent exhibition “Art After Stonewall: 1969-1989” (organized by the @columbusmuseum), features photographs of Lankton at various points in her life, from early childhood through adulthood. The images, cut and pasted on paper, and painted in black latex paint, show the artist in various states, and sometimes playing with dolls, a recollection that perhaps foretells her eventual preoccupation with the medium of sculpting dolls. Learn more about Lankton by visiting our website and searching for her works in our collection, and go check out GLAM (@greer_lankton_archives_museum) for all things Greer Lankton!
#GreerLankton #LeslieLohmanMuseum
ID: Three pages from Greer Lankton’s book, “Untitled” (1981). The first slide is a close-up color photograph of Lankton’s face, her eyes gazing downward. The two additional slides feature black and white images, cut and pasted on paper, and painted in black paint. The first one is a photograph of a young Lanktom playing with marionettes, and the second includes three photo booth stills of Lankton taken at different times, but with the same expression on her face and placed in a row.
[📸: Greer Lankton, Untitled, 1981, mixed media. © G.L.A.M. (Greer Lankton Archives Museum).]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/175944262_202311414784134_6568746688425917792_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=qPqZd8mGaxsAX-T8FQN&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=2818833adc2150b3ce9ad096d681c3be&oe=60C0E8F1)
![TODAY 6 pm EDT! Don’t miss the chance to hear curator Sybil Venegas discuss the life and work of influential Chicana photographer Laura Aguilar, in a virtual tour of our current exhibition “Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell” [on view through June 27].
➡️ Sign up through the link in our profile!
“Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell” is the first comprehensive retrospective of photographer Laura Aguilar (1959-2018) assembling more than 70 works produced over three decades. The exhibition.
Sybil Venegas is an independent Art Historian and Curator and Professor Emerita of Chicana/o Studies at East Los Angeles College (@elachuskies).
[image: Laura Aguilar, “Nature Self-Portrait #2”, 1996. © Laura Aguilar / Gift of the Laura Aguilar Trust of 2016, collection of @vpam_arts and @lacma.]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/176009766_129813795794633_5052457815807309563_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=x1DVhcnV3uUAX8OwjEz&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=13ae2c2bea62b731021a823743d60bb8&oe=60BF9963)
![What were you doing at midnight last night? Scrolling on your phone from bed, or the couch? Thinking about someone--or trying not to think about someone? If so, that's precisely the right headspace for delving into SOMEBODY'S MIDNIGHT, shawné michaelain holloway's participatory electronic love letter (active through April 26th). Part poetry, part recollection, the piece offers an apparatus for call and response, offering a framework for accessing our own poignant pasts and distant memories. (Oh, and though Valentine's Day seems like it was ages ago, the hearts are key to the piece - don't let them float away. 💕)
SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY (@cleogirl2525) is a new media artist and poet. Known for using sound, video, and performance, Holloway shapes the rhetorics of technology and sexuality into tools for exposing structures of power. MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY'S work often critically engages the technical language of instruction, especially the aesthetics and mechanics of practices from queer feminist BDSM communities, to direct viewers to read, play, or listen their way through narratives that guide them in and out of visceral memories, asking them to confront difficult emotions like desire, shame, or regret and to employ them as mechanisms to navigate through and/or away from abuses of power.
➡️ Head to somebodysmidnight.space at MIDNIGHT TONIGHT (or visit the link in our profile) to begin your transmission.
⚠️ P.S. the site is only accessible through your mobile device from 12-1AM in your unique timezone.
This project is created with support from Nick Briz (@nbriz) and the netizen.org community via crucial co-thinking and co-developing (@netizenorg).
#LeslieLohmanMuseum #LeslieLohmanPerformanceResidency
[Video: © SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY, 2021]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/174459121_476508033541460_237596812420888632_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=A80LYHVpQiIAX-Cy1J4&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=1f20497ffbde207a838abb78010b13fc&oe=60C279A0)
![Congratulations to filmmaker and #LeslieLohmanMuseum Artist Fellow, Carrie Hawks (@maroonhorizon) on receiving the 2021 #PitchBLACK @blackpublicmedia grant for their new animated short documentary, “Inner Wound Real”! 🎉 🎥
“Inner Wound Real” (2020), currently on view in part two of “Dissolution”, explores the stories of three BIPOC people who used self-harm as a coping mechanism. Through animation Hawks’ subjects are allowed to disclose their past and present without the association of a spotlight. The stop-motion characters, narrated in voice-over, are set in natural landscapes, reflecting the terrain of their own interiority.
Hawks is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, performer, and comedian. Their work covers themes such as Black-queer identity, comedy, gender dysphoria, self-harm, and the notion of belonging at multiple intersections.
➡️ Visit the Museum FRI - SUN, 12-6 pm to see to Hawks’ work along side works of art created by the first two cohorts of the annual Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship (2017-18 and 2018-19) in “Dissolution” 🎫 Get you tickets via the 🔗 in our profile.
[📸: Carrie Hawks, “Inner Wound Real” (film still), 2020. Courtesy the artist.]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/174834583_133732672066164_6238241311361604708_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=d1cG-lZ90o0AX_fRLZU&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=ac1ca03559a94fb00790addd8d3e5b94&oe=60BF7B7E)
![Happy #WorldArtDay! Today we’re looking at a woodcut created in 1498 by artist Albrecht Dürer, titled “The Men’s Bath”. The image depicts a common scene from men’s bathing culture (and we like to imagine, possibly queer culture) in the 15th century.
Fun fact according to @artinstitutechiacgo this large-scale woodcut was created shortly after a 1496 edict which closed the bathhouses in Dürer’s hometown of Nuremberg, around the time of both an outbreak of syphilis and a drought.
[image: Albrecht Dürer, “The Men’s Bath”, 1498, Woodcut, 15.4 Å~ 11 in. #LeslieLohmanCollection]
#LeslieLohmanMuseum #AlbrechtDürer](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/172914762_284803129843665_7530936528712507399_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=cqToCUENcbsAX9KpVy6&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=55aab52dde1e7f49080b796f499d0e60&oe=60BFA024)
![Curious to learn more about the work of the influential Chicana photographer Laura Aguilar? Tuesday, April 20 @ 6 pm EDT join curator and independent art historian, and Professor Emerita of Chicana/o Studies at @elachuskies Sybil Venegas for a virtual walkthrough of our current exhibition, “Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell” [on view through June 27].
“Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell” is the first comprehensive retrospective of photographer Laura Aguilar (1959-2018) assembling more than 70 works produced over three decades. Through photographs and videos that are frequently political as well as personal, and which traverse performative, feminist, and queer art genres, Aguilar offers candid portrayals of herself, her friends and family, and LGBTQ+ and Latinx communities. The exhibition tells the story of the artist who for most of her life struggled to communicate with words, yet ironically emerged as a powerful voice for numerous and diverse marginalized groups.
➡️ Sign up through the link in our profile!
“‘Show and Tell offers’ a rare opportunity to see the expanse of Laura Aguilar’s work in a way that contextualizes the powerful self-portraits for which she is most known.” @hyperallergic
[📸: Laura Aguilar, “Day of The Dead, East L.A.”, 1981. © Laura Aguilar / Courtesy of the Laura Aguilar Trust of 2016 and @ucla_csrc]
#LauraAguilar #LeslieLohmanMuseum](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/171715420_781240399493915_4605899757487043368_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=dPq5GU2fIicAX897IZ3&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=1d1556475692ff4ac509b973fb03c657&oe=60BF786B)
![Did you know The #LeslieLohmanMuseum re-opened #IRL to the public? Our new open hours are Friday through Sunday, 12-6 PM? Please reserve your timed tickets (before your visit) by following the 🔗 in our profile. We look forward to seeing you at the Museum💥
Exhibitions 🔛👁👁:
▪️LAURA AGUILAR: Show and Tell
(through June 27)
▪️DISSOLUTION: Part 2
(through May 25)
[Image: Chitra Ganesh, “A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask”, 2020, site-specific QUEERPOWER facade installation. 📸 @kristineeudey #LeslieLohmanMuseum]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/169639714_280669950300845_6159876524811773946_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=Icpt7OqB5TsAX9_xAV6&_nc_oc=AQkm6flfyUo-jVRGzsCBc1sTi1D1VfngxHoe7AMGx7nKBEoFaPbQYDGgL2jU5sS0ImY&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=55fd09a11c72b2d1e3bc1fcd33c48547&oe=60C13763)
![Throughout the 1990s, Laura Aguilar’s photographs spoke to her growing sexual and political self-awareness and explored the invisibility of people in her community: people of color, women, large bodied people, LGBTQ+ groups, and most significant herself. For her serries "Plush Pony” (1992) she collaborated with members of Los Angeles gay and lesbian community.
The Plush Pony was a working-class, lesbian bar in El Sereno, a neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles, where Aguilar met the women who form the core of this series. Like much of Aguilar’s practice, these works document a piece of the American experience from the perspective of a photographer whose identified subjects are often invisible to the mainstream lens. These images captures a microcosm of the city’s queer community of color in the early 1990s.
“Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell” [on view through June 27] assembles more than 70 works produced over three decades, by photographer Laura Aguilar (1959-2018).
Visit the Museum FRI-SUN ➡️ Reserve your tickets via 🔗 in our profile.
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[Image: Laura Aguilar, "Plush Pony #2", 1992. © Laura Aguilar / Courtesy Laura Aguilar Trust 2016. Collection of @vpam_arts and @lacma.](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/170653004_324419792404619_834210548494699351_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=4Jnw_NBisfoAX-N3SB8&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=b2c0474220c2c43cdc25dd85b6f55524&oe=60C16E3D)
![This week, join artist Katarzyna Perlak (@kat_perlak) for the premiere of her new work, “Broken Hearts Hotel” (2021) as a part of the #LeslieLohmanMuseum & @onearchives “Remote Intimacies” performance series. Perlak’s project is in two parts: on Friday, 4/9 & Saturday, 4/10, participants are invited to sign up for a one-on-one visit with Perlak, during which they can choose to overshare broken heart histories, take an intimacy quiz, dance, or have a bedtime story read to them. On Sunday, 4/11, Perlak will screen her performance “Broken Hearts Hotel" which explores the potential of the "love hotel" as a temporary, utopian non-space in which we can reinvent love, relationships, and ourselves. The performance will be followed by a conversation and between Perlak and critic and curator Pawel Leszkowicz with a Q&A to follow.
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Remote Intimacies is a series of experimental performances created specifically for online viewing and commissioned and co-organized by the ONE Archives at USC Libraries (@onearchives) and the Museum.
[images: Katarzyna Perlak, “Broken Hearts Hotel” (2021). 📸Miroslava Vecerova]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/169971465_201662925058195_8756617692826459777_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=9BcTxqTcv7cAX--v7ve&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=7af7ea9b06d3f8b6552e2f2b2e1bfcde&oe=60C249D2)
![Exhibition alert 🚨 Part two of "Dissolution" opens #IRL this Friday, April 9, 2021. The exhibition features works of art created by the first two cohorts of the annual Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship (2017-18 and 2018-19).
The second part of "Dissolution" includes artists Boris Torres (@boristorres), Caitlin Rose Sweet (@caitlinrosesweet, Carrie Hawks (@maroonhorizon), Christopher Unpezverde Núñez, Desireena Almoradie (@deswad), #FrederickWeston, Jason Villegas (@chubbytanuki), Lola Flash (@flash9), Nash Glynn (@nashglynn), Salvador Muñoz (@salmunoz.jpg), Seyi Adebanjo (@tengade_productions).
The exploration of materials span from stop motion animation to portraiture made from cut and sewn leather. The breadth of the subject matter is as vast as the materials used to create them. In part two artists investigate the role of colonialism in queer erasure in Mesoamerican mythology, the climate crsis and mass extinction, to envisioning freedom beyond only survival for People of Color and Black individuals.
Reserve your tickets via 🔗 in profile!
AND if you missed Part one of "Dissolution", you can still experience the exhibition through the audio guide. Head to the link in our profile to start listing today or access the guide via the @gesso.app!
[📸 Lola Flash, “An Homage to Kerry James Marshall (from the Syzygy, the Vision Series)", 2019. Courtesy of the artist.]](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/169342078_151779900191012_4648949807539174923_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=f0PE3KOiWzcAX9S_0oQ&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=0abf53697e91700c4bc35bdf6316b925&oe=60C13239)
