Verge Artists’ Salon
Wednesday, June 21
5:30PM-7:30PM
Art discourse is an important part of the cultural community, sharing a space to vocalize ideas and challenging oneself to go beyond self imposed barriers has the potential for growth in practice and in connection to other artists.
June’s Salon Topic: Queer Bodies
Description: This month we are looking at the roles of sexuality and gender identity as they pertain to the experience of the artist. Centering on LGBTQ voices, we will reflect and expand on the contemporary recording of queer histories.
Primary Article: The Boldly Queer, Proudly Off-Kilter World of Pippa Garner
https://www.vogue.com/article/pippa-garner-kunstverein-munich-exhibition-essay
Secondary Articles:
‘I was watching all my friends die’: a queer history told in pictures
Jeffrey Gibson Challenges the Parameters of Native American Art
https://hyperallergic.com/444116/jeffrey-gibson-like-a-hammer-denver-art-museum/
How Do Criteria Change?
https://www.artforum.com/print/202302/sarah-schulman-on-nicole-eisenman-in-the-1990s-89991
This is a FREE event that reoccurs every 3rd Wednesday of the month.
Light refreshments will be provided. Come chat with us!
These monthly art salons will be co-hosted by Michael LaHood and Jillian Bruschera.
Co-Hosts Biographies:
California native, Jillian Bruschera is an interdisciplinary artist and arts-activist, who creates works in visual art, writing, public installation, body performance, and social practice. As founder and proprietor of The Mobile Mill, she travels teaching the art of hand papermaking. She holds BAs in Studio Art and Visual Communications from Loyola University Chicago and a MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago, where she also served as Adjunct Faculty in the Center for Book and Paper Arts.
Michael LaHood is an interdisciplinary artist whose inquiry focuses on how we interact as individuals, and how those granular interactions accrue and take on life of their own. Fire, biorhythms, interactivity, and the nature of epiphanies are a few topical probes for him in that pursuit. He has a BA in Human Biology and an MA in Media Studies from Stanford University and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Columbia College Chicago.
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Flyer Image: Jeffrey Gibson, The Future is Present, 2019 38 × 34 in | 96.5 × 86.4 cm
Edition of 30
Screenprint on inkjet print with cut-and-pasted printed paper in artist’s custom color frame