Image is EVERYTHING ! Visual art @ NQAF 2003
POINT BLANK, Rudy Lemcke, KILLER BANSHEE STUDIOS, QueLACo, and many others!
(May 1, 2003 -- San Francisco) Produced each year during Pride month by the Queer Cultural Center (Qcc), the National Queer Arts Festival (NQAF) celebrates and promotes the work of local, national and international queer artists, and is dedicated to encompassing the queer communityÕs full diversity and artistry. Like past years, NQAF 2003 shows a strong contingent of nationally known and locally grown visual artists who take aim at gender, sexuality, and the queer experience. Using photography, painting, film, video and a host of other media, these artists bend the rules and break the prism of perception with their visceral, captivating and evocative images. With exhibits that have graced The Whitney Museum of Art, The DeYoung Museum and The University Art Museum at Berkeley, Rudy Lemcke brings his large screen video installation with 5 short video works, along with POINT BLANK's photography exhibit of documentary, fine art portraiture and industrial landscapes, to NQAF 2003 opening night festivities. The following weekend finds the opening of a powerful exhibition curated by KILLER BANSHEE STUDIOS, EG: (r) EVOLUTION OF GENDER, focusing on artists that work with gender and their perceptions of gender that have changed over time. Please see website for more exhibits! NQAF 2003 kicks off with the THE Q BALL on Saturday, May 31st, at The SF LGBT Community Center @ 6pm (1800 Market Street @ Octavia) with FREE food and drink, performances, music, and more! NQAF 2003 festivities continue through June 29th in various venues throughout San Francisco.
For complete schedule of events, reservations and more information, please visit the festival website at www.queerculturalcenter.org. Tickets can be purchased in advance starting May 1st, online at www.queerculturalcenter.org, by phone at (415) 3340-Qcc, by email at Qcc@queerculturalcenter.org, or in person at the venues one hour prior to event.
Saturday, May 31st 6:00pm-12:00am
THE Q BALL! - NQAF 2003 Opening Night GAY-la!
The SF LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market @ Octavia Street
Tickets: Donations of $5 to $50,000 gladly accepted in support of Queer anti-war groups!
Qcc Info & Box (415) 3340-Qcc or Qcc@queerculturalcenter.org or www.queerculturalcenter.org
6:00-7:30pm Reception for Point Blank PhotographerÕs Group (Building-wide)
Photography Exhibit & Reception
Come and join Point Blank for their building-wide photography exhibition and slide show of works created since the groupÕs inception in 1998. Point Blank is Dusty Lombardo, Rebecca Mc Bride and Cara Gurney, a group of women committed to documenting the queer community in which they live, and the surroundings they call home. The exhibition encompasses documentary/fine art portraiture and industrial landscapes, and will be at The Center through August 16th. (See Guided Tour on June 7th)
6:00-7:30pm Reception for "The Forgetfulness of Being" (Room 301)
A Cycle of Video Projections by Rudy Lemcke
Rudy Lemcke's large screen video installation is a cycle of 5 short video works that include: The Uninvited; The End of Beauty; The Origin of Light; Light Readings; and Dark Matter. Lemcke has exhibited in such venues as The Whitney Museum of Art, The DeYoung Museum, The University Art Museum at Berkeley, The San Francisco Art Institute, The Grey Gallery in New York, and Lux Gallery in San Francisco. The video installation will be at The Center through June 15th.
Friday, June 6th 6:00pm-7:30pm
RECEPTION FOR EG: (r)EVOLUTION OF GENDER
Visual Arts Exhibition Examining Gender Identity in the Queer Community
SomArts/Rear Gallery, 934 Brannan St @ 8th, SF
Tickets: Free
Qcc Info & Box (415) 3340-Qcc or Qcc@queerculturalcenter.org or www.queerculturalcenter.org
This exhibit focuses on artists that work with gender and how their perceptions of gender have changed over time. Whether androgynous, non-gendered, role-based, transgender, or transsexual, each artist in this exhibition explores gender identity and structures in their visual work. Artists working with gender related themes across more than one body of work will be showcased along with emerging artists, bringing a fresh view to the gender spectrum. Major emphasis on work providing visual evidence of a shift or change in gender awareness, roles, and identity, positions this show to provoke answers to questions barely asked: Does a shift in gender experience provide a discernable visual transcript? Does gender identity influence and change an artistÕs self-perception and work over time? Visual Artists include Jordy Jones, Tim Taylor, Jenny Michals, Teri Claude Dowling, Hein Nguyen, Eliot K. Daughtry, and Kriss De Jong. Curated by Kriss De Jong & Eliot K. Daughtry of Killer Banshee Studios. Exhibition at SomArts/Rear Gallery through June 29th. (See Guided Tour on June 14th)
Saturday, June 7th 1:00pm
POINT BLANK PHOTOGRAPHERÕS GROUP
Photography Exhibition Guided Tour & Discussion
The SF LGBT Community Center/Lobby, 1800 Market St @ Octavia, SF
Tickets: $5; Under 18 Free
Qcc Info & Box (415) 3340-Qcc or Qcc@queerculturalcenter.org or www.queerculturalcenter.org
Point Blank PhotographerÕs Group takes you on a guided tour of their building-wide photography exhibition at The Center, and discusses how the individualÕs works of documentary/fine art portraiture and industrial landscapes have evolved since the groupÕs inception in 1998.
Sunday, June 8th 3:00pm - 6:00pm
RECEPTION FOR "FUCKING WITH AIDS"
QueLACo's Visual Arts Exhibition & Reception
SomArts/Front Gallery
Tickets: Free
Qcc Info & Box (415) 3340-Qcc or Qcc@queerculturalcenter.org or www.queerculturalcenter.org
QueLACoÕs annual multi-disciplinary visual arts exhibition has been produced each year since 1990. The exhibit is a collective of various visual artists from notorious to emerging ones, brought together with the purpose of celebrating our queerness and our Latino heritage. Co-produced by QueLACo (Queer Latino/a Artists Coalition) and Qcc.
Saturday, June 14th 3:00-5:00pm
EG: (r)EVOLUTION OF GENDER
Visual Arts Exhibition Guided Tour & Discussion
SomArts/Rear Gallery
Tickets: $5
Qcc Info & Box (415) 3340-Qcc or Qcc@queerculturalcenter.org or www.queerculturalcenter.org
"Gender identity has emerged as a defining part of the queer community in recent years, engulfing and embracing ideas such as butch/femme from dyke culture, and daddy/boy from leather play. Outside of the constraint visited on mainstream concepts of gender, the queer continuum revels in paradox, defying definition." Curators Eliot K. Daughtry and Kriss De Jong of Killer Banshee Studios guide you through a tour of their visual arts exhibition, and spark a discussion of gender identity in the queer community.
Saturday, June 14th 7:00pm - 10:00pm
RECEPTION FOR "BORDER XICANOGRAPHIES"
A Multimedia Exhibition by Armando Rascón
La Galeria De La Raza
Tickets: Free
La Galeria de la Raza Info & Box (415) 826-8009 or www.galeriadelaraza.org
Border Xicanographies is a multimedia exhibition about the US/Mexico border, exploring the complicated experience of Mexicans living and working in California through audio, video and still photography. Rascón creates a series of ceremonial spaces that contain images spanning the 1920s through the present, including some culled from his own family album of border life and history. The exhibition runs through August 9th. Presented by La Galeria de la Raza, co-sponsored by Qcc.
Thursday, June 19th 6:30pm
B/GLAM Visual Arts Exhibition of Michael Ross
The SF LGBT Community Center/Gallery 301/ 302/Lobby
Tickets: Free
Qcc Info & Box (415) 3340-Qcc or Qcc@queerculturalcenter.org or www.queerculturalcenter.org
An exciting visual arts exhibition by Michael Ross, curated by Tim Taylor as part of the annual B/GLAM Arts Festival.
NQAF's producing entity, the Queer Cultural Center (Qcc), is a multiracial community building organization that fosters the artistic, economic and cultural development of San Francisco's queer arts community. Qcc's programs promote the careers of LGBT artists, and serve queer and non-queer audiences alike. Supporters of NQAF 2003 include the California Arts Council, Grants for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, Rainbow Grocery, Horizons Foundation, Open Meadows Foundation, Astraea Foundation, Bayview Opera House, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, SomArts, Hispanics in Philanthropy, SF Weekly and the Zellerbach Family Fund.
For complete schedule of events, reservations and more information, please visit the festival website at www.queerculturalcenter.org. Tickets can be purchased in advance starting May 1st, online at www.queerculturalcenter.org, by phone at (415) 3340-Qcc, by email at Qcc@queerculturalcenter.org, or in person at the venues one hour prior to event.
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