Art Out: Radical Tenderness, Boys!Boys!Boys!, The Human Cost
Johanna Jackie Baier : Julia and Maxi 2003
Radical Tenderness: Trans for Trans Portraiture
Alice Austen House Museum: March 2021- June 2021 (Closing Soon)
Radical Tenderness: Trans for Trans Portraiture highlights photographic work from four trans and non-binary artists whose portrait photography exudes tender intimacy and calls for a radical shift in visibility politics. The presented images turn away from thinking of visibility in terms of commercial representation made for others. The photographs portray muses, friends, icons, and self on aesthetic terms that say this one is “for us.” Consider the different resonances of the portrayed having their eyes closed or averted. Feel the atmosphere of a bedroom, a dressing room, a private moment in a park. This group show is in honor of the Alice Austen legacy of creating meaningful photographs with friends that both create opportunities to bond and leave a trace of one’s love for each other behind. Showing work from Johanna Jackie Baier (Germany), Zackary Drucker (US), Texas Isaiah (US), and Del LaGrace Volcano (US/Sweden), Radical Tenderness aims to inspire visitors to consider the role of the photographic camera in practices of survival and care.
This exhibition is curated in partnership with Dr. Eliza Steinbock of Leiden University, the Netherlands. Dr. Steinbock’s work in cultural analysis investigates visual culture mediums like film, digital media, and photography, with a special focus on dimensions of race, gender and sexuality.
View Exhibition/Tour Online here.
Ruven Afanador, Mariano Bernal Montero and Victor Bravo, El Cortijo de la Sierra, El Cuervo, Sevilla, Espana, 2011. Archival Pigment Print, Combined Ed. of 25
BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!
The Fahey/Klein Gallery: May 27 – June 19, 2021
The Little Black Gallery and The Fahey/Klein Gallery are proud to present BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!, a group exhibition curated by The Fahey/Klein Gallery and The Little Black Gallery co-founder, Ghislain Pascal, to promote queer and gay photography.
“We are so proud to be bringing BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! to our friends in Los Angeles to celebrate Pride. It gives our photographers the opportunity to exhibit their work to a new audience alongside such amazing luminaries. We will continue to push the boundaries and build a great market for queer fine art photography.” - Ghislain Pascal, co-founder of The Little Black Gallery.
This group exhibition will coincide with PRIDE Los Angeles, and the publication of the second issue of the bi-annual magazine: BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!. Originally a time to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots, PRIDE month has since come to commemorate so much more. BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! celebrates and honors the queer community by highlighting the artists whose work has come to define Fine Art Photography.
Holly, detoxing in the Montgomery County Jail in Dayton, Ohio, on July 3, 2017. Photographs by James Nachtwey for TIME
THE HUMAN COST | AMERICA’S DRUG PLAGUE
Bronx Documentary Center Annex Gallery: June 5th - July 5th, 2021
Opening Reception (by reservation only) June 5th, 6-9pm
Last year, America lost 81,000 men, women and children to drug overdoses. Driven primarily by the opioid crisis--and abetted by the pill-pushing of pharmaceutical companies--millions of individuals and countless families were devastated by addiction.
The war on drugs has failed: from sea to shining sea, fentanyl, heroin, K2, crystal meth, cocaine and other drugs are available in nearly every town and city. Drug-related violence has endangered many of our streets, including Courtlandt Avenue, home to the Bronx Documentary Center. After decades of ever changing anti-drug strategies, we are still left with familiar and yet unanswered questions: how to stop the overdoses; how to keep our youth from addiction; how to stop drug-related violence; how to offer humanitarian treatment.
The Bronx Documentary Center’s upcoming photo exhibition, The Human Cost: America’s Drug Plague, explores these issues and portrays the human toll of America’s drug scourge. The deeply personal stories told here--of losing children, families and freedom--provide a stark but compassionate look at a very complex dynamic.
James Nachtwey, the dean of American conflict photographers, reports with visual journalist and editor, Paul Moakley, from New Hampshire, Ohio, Boston, San Francisco and beyond. Jeffrey Stockbridge documents Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood over the course of 6 years. And Mark Trent follows a tight-knit group of friends in West Virginia through cycles of substance abuse and tragic death. The BDC hopes this exhibition will lead to productive discussions about an intractable American problem.
Learn more about the exhibition here.
Talks/Events:
Art History from Home: Me, Myself, and I
Whitney Museum of American Art: Tues, June 1, 2021, 6 pm. Online, via Zoom
This series of online talks by the Whitney’s Joan Tisch Teaching Fellows highlights works in the Museum's collection and current exhibitions to illuminate critical topics in American art from 1900 to the present. During each thirty-minute session, participants are invited to comment and ask questions through a moderated chat for a fifteen-minute Q&A following the talk. Sessions are available live only, Tuesdays at 6 pm and Thursdays at 12 pm, but topics and speakers do periodically repeat.
Artist Talk with Rodney Ewing. In Conversation with Meg Shiffler
SF Camerawork: Tuesday, June 1, 2021. 6:00 - 7:30 PM PDT. Online Event.
For this conversation, Rodney and Meg will speak about Rodney’s past and present projects, including Broken Shadows, an ongoing series begun during San Francisco’s 2020 mandatory shelter-in-place order and broadly referencing the positive and negatives of the silk screens Rodney uses to create much of his work:
“The impetus of the project was to keep busy—I told myself that I would create a new work every one and a half days to stabilize my art practice during quarantine. Eventually, Broken Shadows evolved into a project that allowed me to reuse my large archive of silkscreens to continue the conversations about diaspora, place, and identity--ideas that are central in my practice. The central challenge in this project is using my older work to create images that speak to the immediacy of 2020s racially fraught atmosphere. The re-use of material mirrors the cyclical nature of history; the resulting works are one-of-a-kind images that layer the past with the present to remind us of their inextricable link.” - Rodney Ewing
Party in the Garden 2021
MoMA: Tue, Jun 1, 7:00 p.m. Online.
The Museum of Modern Art will honor Anna Deavere Smith, Garrett Bradley, Cao Fei, and Adam Pendleton at this year’s virtual Party in the Garden on June 1, 2021.
This event benefits MoMA’s general operating fund, supporting our award-winning education programs and the care, study, and exhibition of our collection.
As this is a benefit for the Museum, tickets are non-refundable. #PartyintheGarden
