AGOSTO MACHADO, SHRINE (WHITE), 2022
Many of the objects in this shrine symbolize the losses Machado experienced due to violence against the queer community and the AIDS crisis. This work was created to celebrate and commemorate the people who influenced his life and help their memory live on…
CARMEN WINANT, THE LAST SAFE ABORTION, 2024
In “The last safe abortion,” artist Carmen Winant considers the labor of women’s health clinics and abortion providers in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, North Dakota, and Ohio..
ALANNA FIELDS, MIRAGES OF DREAMS PAST, 2021-2023
The artist draws upon an eclectic range of vernacular photographs of Black queer people dating from the 1960s to the 1970s. Reframing this found archive using a kaleidoscopic technique, Fields repeats and layers a single image to both reconstruct the way we process images and push beyond the constructs of nostalgia and memory...
CARMEN WINANT, MY BIRTH, 2018
This work is composed of over two thousand images of women preparing for and in the process of labor and childbirth. Winant is conscious of the ways the work of women is both visible and invisible: the activities shown here are widespread and essential, and yet pictures of them are not common, even in our image-saturated culture…
ODETTE ENGLAND, WOMAN WEARING RING SHIELDS FACE FROM FLASH
Odette England collects photographs of men taking pictures of women without permission, women rejecting the camera by placing their hands over their faces, and men posing with guns…