Activity | dustyhair | Autostraddle

dustyhair posted an update in the group Artists & Designers 9 years, 6 months ago

Hi everyone! I’m new to Autostraddle, and I’m trying to find other artists who make work that is outside of a heteronormative/gender binary narrative. I’d really like to start taking my own artwork in a new direction, but want to be educated about the women who have come before me who have talked about homosexuality and gender identity in their work.

dreamCOLOURgone replied 9 years, 4 months ago

Cool! that sounds really interesting and kind of similar to what I’m trying to do with my work. Do you have some artists in mind that you are looking at already? What style(s) of art are you working in?
- dustyhair replied 9 years, 4 months ago
  
  I’m actually struggling to find other female artists who talk about female homosexuality. I have found plenty of male artists who do. I don’t know if I’m looking in the wrong places? I create figurative ceramic sculpture and for the past year have been using it to talk about my own gender/sexuality discoveries. I’m currently using visual cues…[Read more]
  - dreamCOLOURgone replied 9 years, 4 months ago
    
    For strongly visible lesbian and bisexual presence check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Lesbian_Art_Show
    Especially, http://tinyurl.com/ksfwp28 and http://tinyurl.com/n2acgle
    There’s a lot of photographers and video artists documenting their experiences of (or about) being lesbian, queer, trans, and in drag. It’s less easy to fin…[Read more]
    - dreamCOLOURgone replied 9 years, 4 months ago
      
      :D When I actually thought about it, most queer artists I knew of were male identified or not specifically looking at relationships or their sexuality. Felix Gonzalez Torres was the first that came to mind. I don’t know a lot about ceramic art though and I’m sure there’s plenty of fantastic artists working within that area.
    - dustyhair replied 9 years, 4 months ago
      
      Thank you so so much for all of that information! I can’t wait to dive in and look at all the links. I really appreciate it. Yeah, in Ceramics, there are lots of amazing artists talking about female sexuality, female politics, etc. but every single person I think about or look at as an example is coming at the subject matter from a…[Read more]

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