CAITLYN JENNER BRANDS TRANSGENDER AND LGBT ISSUES AS DIVERSITY COMES TO PHOTO LA
Caitlyn scores the cover of Vanity Fair. Jaden Smith, willowy son of Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith, flaunts metallic skirts and girlish blouses for Louis Vuitton. Nordstrom airs gay TV commercials. LGBT issues tumble regularly onto the pages of The New York Times. The news, style, business and entertainment sections of America’s mainstream media hungrily report the LGBT cultural changes rocking America’s zeitgeist. At Photo LA, ROUND HOLE, SQUARE PEG, staged by Artists Corner Gallery and World of Wonder Productions (producer of RuPauls’ television show, Drag Race) is an exhibition of the very latest in LGBT sub-culture photography. ROUND HOLE, SQUARE PEG presents groundbreaking visual archetypes for the new millennium. Gender-fluid currents in contemporary American society compel us to redefine the rules for sexually sophisticated behavior and language. Innovative visual paradigms deconstruct and reconstruct our social and individual reality. The visually rich LGBT lexicon of ROUND HOLE, SQUARE PEG reimagines our understandings of class, gender and, above all, sexuality.
Today, anyone can adjust their dial anywhere on the male-female continuum for an evening…or for the rest of their lives. What is Queer Photography? Mirroring the human condition with insight, style, glamor and fun, artists and photographers from Kenneth Anger to James Bidgood, to Arthur Tress, Herb Ritts, Mapplethorpe, Pierre et Gilles, Zackary Drucker, David La Chapelle, Mei Xian Qiu, Cassils, Leon Mostovoy and Austin Young, have branded their work with queer celebrations of sensuality. An out-rage-ous color palette and an offbeat way of expressing sexuality have become just some of the markers of queer photography: a genre of work defined by same-sex, bi sex, trans style, sensuality and aesthetic savviness. -Phil Tarley curator of The Wall of Fame, jury member of Round Hole, Square Peg at Photo LA.
On Saturday February 6 , 2016, ROUND HOLE, SQUARE PEG, moves from PHOTO L A to the Artists Corner Gallery. Andy Warhol Film Icon, Joe Dallesandro will be the guest of honor for a once in a lifetime art auction event benefiting The Trevor Project: the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to (LGBTQ) young people.
For tickets and auction info visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trevor-project-benefit-art-auction-and-party-tickets-20722380197
WowTV’s James St. James will be hosting the event.
Featured image credit:
Andy Warhol 1970
Joe Dallesandro
16 mm Film Strip
Slideshow credits:
#1 - Chris Brown and Karen Bystedt
Andy Warhol
Hand Embellished Photographic Serigraph 2014
#2 - Douglas Kirkland
Andy Warhol TRASH Film Strip 1970
Signed Print donated to Trevor Project-Joe Dallesandro Auction
#3 - Michael Palladino
Cloister
Photo With Encaustic
#4 - Advertisement: Homage to Benglis, 2011
CUTS: A TRADITIONAL SCULPTURE
Photo: Cassils and Robin Black, 2011
edition 2/3
Courtesy Ronald Feldman Gallery
#5 - World of Wonder’s James St. James
Photo by Josef Jasso for l.a. Eyeworks
#6 - Amanda Lepore in the Red Mirror
Photo by Josef Jasso
