INTERSECTIONAL ART

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Punctures by Peta Clancy

Peta Clancy explores the dimensions of photography in her solo exhibition Puncture. She will present a new suite of 4 large-scale intimate self-portraits that explore the transformative, fragile and resilient qualities of paper.

Using a fine needle the artist carefully applies thousands of tiny pinpricks through the surface of photographic paper. These markings rupture the surface of the photographic print and form beautiful embroidered patterns that are visible on the surface of the paper. (KNSTRCT)

Enjoy more of her work here

Peter Adamyan for The 5th Annual Supersonic Invitational.

Absolutely fantastic new work by artist Peter Adamyan for the 5th Annual Supersonic Invitational Group Show which opens tomorrow - January 9th, 2016 - at Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco, California.

The 5 year anniversary group exhibition features brand new work from over 70 of the world’s leading New Contemporary artists and will be an exceptional feast for the eyes.  You can browse the full line-up of artists here.

“Refugees in, Nazis out / Governments here should feel the shame / Fucking liars, you’re to blame,” Pussy Riot sing in their just-released video, “Refugees In.” Filmed during the Russian punk band’s September 25th performance at Banksy’s Dismaland, the video is dedicated to the more than 750,000 refugees who have arrived in Europe so far in 2015. Most are escaping from war or persecution in Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Sudan, and thousands are dying along the way. Refugees, for example, are not allowed to apply for asylum outside the UK, so they’re forced to travel there illegally.

How Nina Chanel Abney is Championing the Black Lives Matter Movement with a Paintbrush 

in Vanity Fair

Femme to Femme is a literary non-fiction,varied anthology seeking to explore femme* identity in the 20th and21st century through poetry, prose, essays, stories/narratives,illustration/art and photography. It was inspired by conversation with young femme* folks of color and Joseph Beam’s 1991 collection of writings edited byEssex Hemphill: Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men.

A new gallery is opening on Meserole Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, next month, and according to its eponymous director, Christopher Stout, it will have a “program of showing subversive and difficult art.” Stout told Hyperallergic that the gallery will “focus on performance and video work … art making that confronts socio-political issues, particularly with a profound anti-commercial approach. This kind of work, Stout explained, “tends to deal with or come from artists whose practices have a queer identity or feminist identity, or anti-capitalist concerns.”

Three uptown cultural institutions in New York City this summer have had significant exhibitions devoted to the history of art and social activism. Taken together, they paint an arresting portrait of the role of artists in affecting social change.

With an aim to use artistic expression as a weapon against cultural stereotyping, the movement has already garnered support from fellow teen trailblazers Amandla Stenberg and Willow Smith – but Mars is quick to stress that it was always meant to be as inclusive and positive as possible. Although initally starting off as a movement to help empower young black creatives, it’s now become much bigger than that. Attracted by the slick, chromatic aesthetic, outcasts from across the world are now claiming it as their own. “We made this movement inclusive for everyone,” Mars explains. “The reason why we made this is so everyone can participate in it and have a place to call home.”

How ironic is it that in an interview about a movement that’s all about radical, uncensored self-representation our message was wildly diluted (and in our opinion, made to look vain and superficial). 

Buzzfeed did an interview with Mars and myself on the Art Hoe Movement, and while the exposure is wonderful, a lot of what we needed said was excluded. So, we’re going to add our uncensored answers because we demand be in control of our own narrative. 

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