Taking up again the tools and formats around which she built her own language and iconography, La Chola Poblete intervenes in historical and contemporary imaginaries to explore the ambiguities and undefinable zones of the narrative of the past and the current political discourse. #queerart

Fred Bisonnes (AKA Dennis Forbes) was a photographer, graphic designer, illustrator, editor, art director, journalist and fiction writer, who during the period from 1974 to 1989 was a major figure in publishing activities of the Gay Liberation Movement. #artarchive #arthistory #queerart #art #gay

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Harry Bush: His Art and His Life. The long-overdue book about a well-known, unknown gay American artist: www.kickstarter.com/projects/den...

Louis Fratino creates deeply intimate paintings and drawings from personal memory and the quietly sublime offerings of everyday life. His figurative subjects include lovers, friends, family, and the artist himself, rendering the human body as a site of vast emotive expression. #queerart #art #gay

Samuel Harrison is an artist and illustrator from London whose work mainly draws inspiration from the worlds of beauty and fashion. #onlinegallery #artcurator #artarchive #arthistory #queerart #art #gay

The Saint Poster (1980) by Michael Vernaglia via @queerarchivefever.bsky.social #onlinegallery #artcurator #artarchive #arthistory #queerart #art #gay

Loren Rex Cameron (1959-2022) was a pathmaking photographer, author, and transgender activist. Self-taught as a photographer and artist, he began producing self-portraits and images in 1993. Cameron is celebrated for his seminal work of transgender self-representation in the photographic arts.

Unsoaked streets, endless heat, and nowhere to be but the present. Starring ARNAU SARDA, this editorial captures the effortless rhythm of a Mediterranean escape through the lens of Joey Leo, where every frame feels warm, unhurried, and alive. #artarchive #arthistory #queerart #art #gay #photography

“There is this in-between space where having a camera becomes almost therapeutic, a tool that allows me and the people I photograph to be really present.” - Ryan Pfluger #onlinegallery #artcurator #artarchive #arthistory #queerart #art #gay #photography #quote

Kyle Dunn’s paintings of detailed interiors explore intimacy and estrangement, often portraying male figures in scenes of quiet contemplation or languid eroticism. Constructed around a cinematic interplay of light and shadow, Dunn’s art carries a touch of melodrama. #queerart #art #gay #painting

Wayne Hollowell has been obsessed with the tragic divas of Hollywood, true crime, and scandal for all of his life! Growing up in rural NC in the seventies and eighties, he lived for soap operas, the National Enquirer, and the Sally Jessy Raphael show. #arthistory #queerart #art #gay #painting

In her luminous and hyperrealistic paintings, Sasha Gordon often renders her own likeness, conveying the self and its many guises through translucent layers of oils in electric hues. #onlinegallery #artcurator #artarchive #arthistory #queerart #art #gay #painting

Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian) charges his paintings of landscapes, friends, and objects with a disarming intimacy and immediacy. His distinctive approach, which he has termed “emotional realism,” is characterized by works that treat representation as an expression of affect. #queerart #art #gay #paint

Through his paintings, Brett Charles Seiler creates an interior world which wavers between desire and anxiety. He explores the male body, domestic space, poetry, Queer history, Biblical symbolism, love and alienation, as well as the possibilities of painting as a medium. #queerart #art #gay #paint

Fredster studied Art and graphic design in Belgium and then moved to Paris where he worked as a graphic designer and organized small queer alternative parties where he met many inspiring and creative people who eventually led him back to drawing. #artarchive #arthistory #queerart #art #gay #drawing

Richard Kilroy is a British artist best known for his focus on the male form. Whether the angle of a cheekbone or the structure of a hand, reveals a fascination with the drama of classical baroque sculpture, yet his translation of it is quiet, minimal, and pared back. #queerart #art #gay #drawing

Sakiko Nomura is one of the most outstanding Japanese photographers of her generation. She worked for 20 years as an assistant to Nobuyoshi Araki and since 1993 has exhibited regularly in Japan and other Asian countries, as well as in Europe and Mexico. #artarchive #queerart #art #gay #photography

Discreet Peaks by Raphaël Neal. #onlinegallery #artcurator #artarchive #arthistory #queerart #art #gay #photography

Kent Monkman is an interdisciplinary Cree visual artist. A member of ocêkwi sîpiy (Fisher River Cree Nation) in Treaty 5 Territory (Manitoba, Canada), he lives and works between New York City and Toronto. #onlinegallery #artcurator #artarchive #arthistory #queerart #art #gay

Channeling his experience as a queer Colombian immigrant, Juan Arango Palacios investigates how representing the figure through lenses of queerness and migration establishes a cultural vocabulary that bolsters a sense of safety and belonging. #artcurator #artarchive #arthistory #queerart #art #gay

Like the mischievous harlequins that appear & disappear throughout his work, Sydney Engelberg hid a secret: he was a closeted gay man until he met his lifelong partner in the early 50s. His hidden identity would influence how he experienced and depicted the “American Scene,” both at home and at war.

Visual artist and poet John Brooks explores themes of Queer identity, memory, death, and place; his work is centered around questions of contemplation, the expression of emotion, the transformative power and the emotional resonance of particular experiences. #artarchive #arthistory #queerart

When Richard Lindner arrived in NYC in 1941 having spent several years in the French capital, where he found refuge after fleeing Germany in 1933, he gradually retired from his profession as an illustrator and turned his attention to painting instead. #artcurator #artarchive #arthistory #queerart

George Tooker's eerie and captivating paintings took on art's biggest themes of desire, death, religion, and grief. As a queer artist working in the 1950s, Tooker railed against the established status quo in both his life and art. #onlinegallery #artcurator #artarchive #arthistory #queerart

Oscar yi Hou is a painter with an art practice that centers on a critical exploration of racial, sexual, and gender identity, from a queer, Asian diasporic perspective. #onlinegallery #artcurator #artarchive #arthistory #queerart #art #gay #inspo #lgbt #painting

Born in Columbus, Georgia, William T. Christopher (1924-1973) left the South to pursue his artistic career, studying first in Paris in the late 1940s and then in New York City. In both Paris and Manhattan, Christopher was part of a diverse artistic and social circle. #arthistory #queerart #art #gay

“I feel more strength now than ever before, but this strength, this driving energy, shall be carefully bridled and directed with wisdom ... My ambition is everything — pleasure, physical sensations mean nothing compared to great accomplishments.” -- Bob Mizer, May 28th, 1947.

The faces are unforgettable: their glances indelible and mesmerizing, they are imbued with mystery and eroticism as they engage the viewer who is captivated by their haunting, though clement airs. And their eyes, especially, seem the vortex where emotions are identified and revealed. #queerart #gay

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