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    28 Self-Portraits Show the Beauty of Queer Creativity

    Coco Romack
    | 06/12/19

    28 Self-Portraits Show the Beauty of Queer Creativity

    28 Self-Portraits Show the Beauty of Queer Creativity

    28 Self-Portraits Show the Beauty of Queer Creativity

    At the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, as the rights and lives of LGBTQ+ people continue to be threatened worldwide, the visibility of queer folks -- bodies, faces -- has never been more critical. It's with this notion that HERE, a New York organization dedicated to presenting cutting edge artworks in a variety of media, staged its Queer As I exhibition.

    On view through June 30, Queer As I is comprised of 50 self-portraits by different artists both established, like photographers Catherine Opie and Jack Pierson, and emerging. From crystal-clear photography to abstracted compositions -- the portraiture, an image for each year since the Stonewall Riots, reflects a gloriously diverse range of creativity. "We're not going back in the closet," says resident curator Dan Halm. "It was a real honor to get people like Catherine Opie and Justin Vivian Bond to commit to this show right off the bat. It's a really nice statement when people who have had careers for a really long time are willing to do an exhibition with somebody who is just graduating from Columbia."

    Queer as I, you, and all of us: Scroll on to peruse a selection of the artists' self-portraits, highlighting the breadth and beauty of the queer community.

    Jonathan Kent Adams

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    A Place For Me, 2019, oil on Arches oil paper

    Alexander Asbell

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Behold the Man, 2019, oil on canvas board

    Matthew Bede Murphy

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Pee Soup Me, 2019, oil on canvas

    Justin Vivian Bond

    Hiddleston Elba

    Chip '84, 1984, pencil on paper

    Greg Climer

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Self-Portrait, 2019, quilted cotton with batting

    LaQuann Dawson

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Portrait 02 from the series I hate getting my picture taken, 2018, digital photograph

    Leah DeVun

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Beloved Mother, 2016, archival pigment print

    Shari Diamond

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Untitled (Self-Portrait 07.08.18), 2018, pigmented inkjet print

    John Dugdale

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Tempo Passa, Morton Street NYC, 2018, cyanotype

    James Falciano

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Self-Portrait, 2018, marker on paper

    Nadine Faraj

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    That Ground of Conscious Nothing Where The Rose Ever Blooms, 2018, watercolor on paper

    Logan Jackson

    The Most Beautiful Men at Fashion Week

    Flamer, 2017, archival pigment print

    Mia Krys

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    For Interpretation, 2018, gelatin silver print

    Zachari Logan

    Logan for Linder's FW18 Calendar

    Still Life No. 1 from the Enigma series, 2015, blue pencil on Mylar

    Emily Lombardo

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Disappeared, 2018, dry point etching with inkjet chine colle on paper

    Peter Macaulay

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Self-Portrait with Beer, 2018, oil on canvas

    John MacConnell

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Self-Portrait, 2019, graphite on Rives BFK

    Daniel Morowitz

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Self-Portrait, Gemini, 2019, acrylic on canvas

    Cobi Moules

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Untitled (08-24-2015), 2016, oil on canvas

    Catherine Opie

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Julie & Pigpen, 2012, pigment print

    Ryan Pfluger

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    I Left My Heart in the Mountains, 2018, c-print

    Michael-Birch Pierce

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Transient, 2019, Swarovski rhinestones and chandelier crystals on antique mirror

    Jack Pierson

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Me at Polycow, 1981, silver gelatin print

    Antonio Pulgarin

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Mother and I, 2013, archival pigment print

    Brandon Roberts

    Roberts

    Self-Portrait (Vazquez Rocks Natural Area Park, CA, 2019), archival pigment print

    Chad States

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Making the Weather, 2019, video (loop) 10:35

    Richard Stauffacher

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Poseidon's Boy, 2019, porcelain, glass, found doll parts, wood and waxed twine

    Meg Turner

    28 LGBTQ+ Artists Share Prideful Self-Portraits

    Self-Portrait (after Marlon Brando), 2016, wet plate collodion

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