Encore presentation by AC Gallery, World of Wonder and The Advocate & Gochis Galleries
Originally shown at Photo L.A., sponsored by Fabrik, Artillery and West Hollywood Lifestyle Magazines
August 12 - October 1
Opening Reception: Friday, August 12 | 7-9pm
Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Advocate & Gochis Galleries
1125 N. McCadden Place, Los ANgeles 90038
Free
SPONSORS: WEST HOLLYWOOD LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE
THE TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION
FABRIK AND ARTILLERY MAGAZINES
A NEW QUEER VISUAL ESTHETIC FOR THE 21st CENTURY
ROUND HOLE SQUARE PEG, the first LGBTQ international exhibition to appear at PHOTO LA, debuted in 2014. The January 2016 PHOTO LA Exhibition and it’s move to the Artists Corner Gallery, was the second iteration of the show, developed and curated by Phil Tarley.
ROUND HOLE SQUARE PEG has two parts: photo artists selected from international submissions by a jury of queer photography gallerists and critics that include Paul Bridgewater (New York), Bert Green (Chicago), Jonathan D. Katz (New York), Valda Lake (Los Angeles) and Rick Perez (San Francisco). The second part of the show is a curated invitational.
Katie Poltz, curator for the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Advocate & Gochis Gallery, has selected her favorite pieces for the installation presented at The Advocate & Gochis Galleries.
ART WITH A MANIFESTO
“Queer identity is not simply a sexual one. Queer artists have a perspective and an experience to contribute to society that is wholly their own and it’s a rich and worldly one. Having been marginalized and alienated for so long has developed a unique view of self worth, self image, spirituality, joy and companionship.”
About Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley is a Fellow of The American Film Institute, an artist member of The Los Angeles Art Association.. Tarley writes features and cover stories about contemporary art, pop culture and photography for Fabrik Magazine. He curates at the A C Gallery in Los Angeles and founded Round Hole Square Peg, a biannual, international survey of LGBTQ photography shown at the AC Gallery at Photo LA. Tarley’s personal series of political and ethnographic videos is housed in the permanent collection of the New York Public Library and has screened in film festivals and museums like the American Film Institute, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In 2009, under his nom de porn, Phil St. John, Tarley was inducted into the Gay Porn Hall of Fame for his twenty-year producing and directing career. His writing and photography have also appeared in the LA Times, the LA Weekly, The WOW Report, Adventure Journal, the Advocate, Frontiers, Adult Video News, Genre, Instinct and American Photo Magazine.
About the Los Angeles LGBT Center
Since 1969 the Los Angeles LGBT Center has cared for, championed and celebrated LGBT individuals and families in Los Angeles and beyond. Today the Center’s more than 500 employees and 3,000 volunteers provide services for more LGBT people than any other organization in the world, offering programs, services and global advocacy that span four broad categories: Health, Social Services and Housing, Culture and Education, Leadership and Advocacy. We are an unstoppable force in the fight against bigotry and the struggle to build a better world; a world in which LGBT people can be healthy, equal and complete members of society.
Learn more at http://lalgbtcenter.org
AC GALLERY - 1546 N. Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Above photos: (top) Mei Xian Qiu and Josef Jasso; (bottom) Simone Castrovillari
