Visual Art
A Feast for Your Queer Eyes: Six Visual Art Shows
(SAN FRANCISCO)—This yearıs Festival features several programs in visual art, with an emphasis on portraiture of the queer community.
Sunday, June 3 marks the United States debut of Lesbian ConneXion/s, a traveling photo exhibit that features images created by European lesbian artists. The NQAF celebrates the arrival of this exhibition with a reception from 4-7 pm on June 3 at SomArts, 934 Brannan St in San Francisco. The curators of the exhibition will discuss the development of their project in Europe on Saturday, June 9, 11 am, also at SomArts, where the exhibition will be hanging through Pride Weekend. Donations at the door are encouraged.
On Saturday June 2 from 7-9 pm, QueLACo hosts a visual art exhibition at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission St. The show features works by both established and emerging Bay Area queer Latina/o artists and aims to launch a new discussion about queer Latina/o art history by assembling some of the best work created over the past 25 years. Opening night features this year's curators Ester Hernandez and Antonio Escalante in discussion with the participating artists. Refreshments will be served. Admission for the reception is $5.
On June 6, from 6-9 pm, Point Blank will hold an opening reception for their work at BUILD, 483 Guerrero St. Formed in June 1998, Point Blank is a group of women photographers (Su Evers, Jackie Gratz, Dusty Lombardo, and Rebecca McBride) who came together to support each other and to document the community in which they live—carving out more space and visibility for lesbians in photography. Donations at the door are encouraged.
On Saturday June 9 at 2 pm at SomArts, Laurie Toby Edison presents The Body, the Nude, Gender and Sex: a slide show and conversation about her two books: Familiar Men: A Book of Male Nudes and Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes. Admission is $10-$15 sliding scale.
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Continuing through June 10 at SomArts is an exhibition of paintings from Lenore Chinn. The
exhibition offers a collective portrait of the queer community as it has developed over the past 30 years. The exhibition will include Chinnıs newest work—a portrait of the late Bernice Bing, who was a noted Bay Area pioneer lesbian artist of the Beat era. Donations at the door are encouraged.
On Friday, June 15 from 5-7 pm at SomArts is an opening reception for a premier exhibition featuring the larger-than-life paintings of gender-bent renaissance cowboy Cooper Lee Bombardier; the haunting, autobiographical work of transgender activist and painter Daphne Scholinski; and the powerful, saturated color photos from the roadmap of Chloe Shermanıs queer life in San Franciscoıs famed Mission district and beyond. The reception features an ambient DJ, beverages and hors dıoeuvres. Donations at the door are encouraged.
The National Queer Arts Festival is a series of cultural events, exhibitions, performances and interpretive programs organized by The Queer Cultural Center and Harvey Milk Institute. For further information on any Festival event, please contact the National Queer Arts Festival at 415.552.7709 or visit the Web site at www.queerculturalcenter.org.
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