VAGINAL DAVIS, THE WHITE TO BE ANGRY, 1999
FILM Megan Christiansen FILM Megan Christiansen

VAGINAL DAVIS, THE WHITE TO BE ANGRY, 1999

Vaginal Davis’s touchstone work, The White to be Angry, challenges white supremacy culture in the United States through irony and pastiche. Davis is a key figure in the history of queer music, performance, and video art, whose work bridged the queer performance and punk club scenes of Los Angeles in the late 1970s…

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AUSTN FISCHER, JESTERS GENDER GAME
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

AUSTN FISCHER, JESTERS GENDER GAME

Jesters Gender Game, a celebration of historical queer artists' fearless exploration of gender performance. This photographic project draws inspiration from visionaries like Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, who challenged gender norms through provocative self-portraits…

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DILLON BRYANT, BLACK HILLS
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

DILLON BRYANT, BLACK HILLS

My practice explores constructions of home, desire, family mythologies, and the landscape in relation to the LGBT+ experience through collage and photography. Taken and found images sourced from family albums, maps, guide books, magazines, and other archives are reorientated to examine the legacies of western expansion and mining in the American West with focus on sites in South Dakota (SD) and California…

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DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, SEX SERIES, 1988-89
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, SEX SERIES, 1988-89

Working in New York City’s East Village during the late 1980s, Wojnarowicz created art that was both intensely political and deeply personal. The Sex Series emerged from an overwhelming sense of loss—of loved ones, of privacy…

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GEORGE PLATT LYNES, SELECT NUDES
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

GEORGE PLATT LYNES, SELECT NUDES

George Platt Lynes was a renowned American fashion and commercial photographer who enjoyed the prime of his career during the 1930s and 1940s. Although he was very sought after by major fashion publications for his beautiful images and stunning compositions, his real passion was the male nude, which he photographed extensively in the privacy of his studio…

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IMANI DENNISON AND LATETRA METTS-OWENS, NAKED TRUTH
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

IMANI DENNISON AND LATETRA METTS-OWENS, NAKED TRUTH

In the series titled “Naked Truth,” a collaboration between fine artist Latetra Metts-Owens and Photographer, Imani Dennison, explores the truth behind people naked selves. In phase one of this project, subjects were interviewed and recorded on film, revealing things about themselves that were both uncomfortable and secret…

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ZOJA KALINOVSKIS, UNSEEN
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

ZOJA KALINOVSKIS, UNSEEN

Inspired by classical sculpture, Unseen portrays disabled bodies with reverence - as worthy of art instead of objects of pity. The series challenges the narrative that disability is synonymous with suffering and seeks to dismantle societal prejudices.

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ALIREZA SHOJAIAN, WRESTLING SERIES, 2015
PRINTMAKING Megan Christiansen PRINTMAKING Megan Christiansen

ALIREZA SHOJAIAN, WRESTLING SERIES, 2015

Alireza SHOJAIAN is an Iranian artist, born in Tehran in 1988. He began his career in Tehran and Beirut and has been based in Paris since 2019. His work aims to challenge societal prejudices against non-heteronormative masculine identities…

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MARLON RIGGS, BLACK IS...BLACK AIN'T, 1995
FILM Megan Christiansen FILM Megan Christiansen

MARLON RIGGS, BLACK IS...BLACK AIN'T, 1995

The final film by filmmaker Marlon Riggs, BLACK IS…BLACK AIN'T, jumps into the middle of explosive debates over Black identity. White Americans have always stereotyped African Americans. But the rigid definitions of "Blackness" that African Americans impose on each other, Riggs claims, have also been devastating…

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JEFFERY JIN, A PORTAL HOME
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

JEFFERY JIN, A PORTAL HOME

A Portal Home is the product of a precarious situation that weaves together pictures taken within a six-month period in China, 2023. Portraits of my grandparents in Hefei
collide with photographs from queer encounters in Shanghai to tell a story of compounded origins, redefining everything I once considered home…

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MEG TURNER, WET, 2014-ONGOING
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

MEG TURNER, WET, 2014-ONGOING

Collected as a prototype for my first artist book, Wet is a series of 46 tintype portraits taken between new orleans and new york (with a few Texas and Florida trips) between 2014 and today. The theme of water runs a slow and steady thread through the layout - bodies of water by which we feel our own bodies, our own relaxation and divinity, bodies of water which turn to smoke in the process of long outdoor exposures...

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GOLDEN, ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE THIS IS NOT YOUR HISTORY, 2016
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

GOLDEN, ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE THIS IS NOT YOUR HISTORY, 2016

Robert Mapplethorpe This Is Not Your History was created as a direct retaliation to the Portfolio Z series shot and captured by Robert Mapplethorpe in the late ’70s. In photo history, Mapplethorpe’s works are often sourced and attributed as visual etymologies for queer representations—losing sight of how the gaze of whiteness makes a spectacle of blackness when its being is rendered as just ‘body.’..

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