Damien Davis, "Primary Day (Blackamoors Collage #327)", 2020, laser-cut plexiglass, mirror and stainless steel hardware 16 x 21 x 1.5 in.

Damien Davis, "Single Issue (Blackamoors Collage #328)", 2020, laser-cut plexiglass, mirror and stainless steel hardware, 16 x 21 x 1.5 in.

T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, "Zeresh", 2013, bedsheet, found fabrics and thread, 44 x 24 in.

T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, "Jerusha", 2013, bedsheets, found fabric and thread, 50 x 30 in.

Poppy DeltaDawn, "Basket", 2020, flat reed and acrylic, 40 x 15 x 15 in.

Poppy DeltaDawn, "Rope Study i.", 2020, wool, 15 x 24 x 5 in.

Will Hutnick, "Slow Like Honey", 2020, acrylic, crayon, ink and spray paint on canvas, 28 x 22 in.

Will Hutnick, "The Hum That Never Goes Away", 2019, acrylic, crayon, ink and spray paint on canvas, 28 x 22 in.

Christopher Stout, "The Wonderment of Otherness (Work NINE)", 2019, Layer 1: linen on board, Layer 2: a nest of shredded writing proclaiming, “wonderment of otherness”, Layer 3: prominent ridge from molded plaster, Layer 4: oil paint with paint pigme

Christopher Stout, "The Wonderment of Otherness (Work FIVE)", 2019, Layer 1: linen on board, Layer 2: a nest of shredded writing proclaiming, “wonderment of otherness”, Layer 3: prominent ridge from molded plaster, Layer 4: oil paint with paint pigme

Julie Torres, "Channel Surfing", 2013-20, acrylic on three wood panels, overall dimensions variable.

Julie Torres, "Gifts and Omens", 2013-20, acrylic on three wood panels, overall dimensions variable.

Arcade Project Curatorial is pleased to introduce Gay Guerrilla, a survey exhibition containing new works in Queer abstraction. The show features work by Damien Davis, T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, Poppy DeltaDawn, Will Hutnick, Christopher Stout, and Julie Torres.

Queer art has enjoyed an explosion of discovery as the Contemporary art world has rejoined recent Queer abstraction with activist and gender-themed work born in the early 1970’s.

The visual essay of Gay Guerrilla builds on this premise, and also investigates the myriad of new divergent conversations which have stemmed from lesbian, transgender, queer, and queer artists of color embracing the fluid portal of abstraction.

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To bring to life this construct, Arcade Project Curatorial is presenting a rolling digital “artist film library,” with short video talks by the artists.

In addition, Arcade Project Curatorial has published an exhibition catalog which includes photographs of the works in this exhibition, along with transcriptions of each participant’s artist talk. A PDF can be downloaded here (121 MB) through August 29, 2020.

It is important to note that the title of this exhibition references a 1979 score by Julius Eastman, the hallowed Black, gay minimalist composer who brazenly confronted both racial and sexual orientation issues within his work. A performance of Gay Guerrilla at Kunsthalle Basel can be seen here.

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