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This is the last weekend you can check out the show! The show will be up until June 30th.

𝙎𝙪𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙡𝙮, 𝙄𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜
𝗟𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗠𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮
𝟰𝟳 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗝𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁,
𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀: 𝟭-𝟳𝗽𝗺

Posted• .studio 06.20.2024

-Installation Documentation-

An appreciative opportunity to document this heart-felt installation for Jiwon
🥺💓🫶🏻

“𝙎𝙪𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙡𝙮, 𝙄𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜“
A solo presentation by Jiwon Rhie |  at La MaMa Galleria

This show is curated by Sophia Ma .ma
and invited by Yvena Despagne  , Art Director of 

It opens 1-7pm from Thursday to Sunday till June 30.

This is the last two weekends for catching it.
Don’t miss it! 👐🏻

𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗔𝗧 𝗟𝗔 𝗠𝗔𝗠𝗔 𝗚𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗔
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This Sunday (May 26th) at 3pm, there will be an Artist-Curator-Led Exhibition Tour. Anyone who is interested in learning more about the show is welcome to join the program.

Jiwon Rhie’s solo show, “Suddenly, Images Explain Everything,” is open every Thursday to Sunday from 1-7pm.

This show is curated by Sophia Ma .ma
and invited by Yvena Despagne , Art Director of

“Suddenly, Images Explain Everything” is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Photo Credit flaneurshan.studio .studio

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗠𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮!
𝙎𝙪𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙡𝙮, 𝙄𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 by , opens tomorrow, Thursday, May 16th, 6-8pm.
La MaMa Galleria provides Rhie with a unique platform for exploration and discovery within her solo exhibition, 𝙎𝙪𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙡𝙮, 𝙄𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜. Through her thought-provoking installations and interactive works, Rhie delves into the expansive human experience, shedding light on emotions often overlooked in contemporary life. Partnering with Project Art Distribution and Short Stop Gallery underscores Rhie’s commitment to fostering playfulness while connecting with the public. By reimagining her previous exhibitions within the experimental space of La MaMa Galleria, Rhie invites viewers to engage with her work in new and unexpected ways, further emphasizing the power of art to provoke introspection and dialogue.
𝗟𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗠𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮
𝟰𝟳 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗝𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁
𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀: 𝗪𝗲𝗱-𝗦𝘂𝗻 𝟭-𝟳𝗽𝗺

DON'T MISS IT! Closing soon! Experience ‘s provoking and intriguing beautiful solo show at La MaMa Galleria.
OPEN TODAY! Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 7 pm
🔵➰T La MaMa presents ‘and Dan and (when some small metal is spun)’, a video based project by Itziar Barrio involving the creation of a narrative using artificial-intelligence. The resulting grammar is a glitched, a subverted and at times incorrect one. The language of poetry prevails in the final text resisting logic and opening future horizons. Itziar Barrio’s solo exhibition
includes and Dan and (when some small metal is spun) video, and related works. Barrio has developed this project as a member at the New Museum’s incubator NEW INC.
This piece uses now legacy technology, GPT-2, a form of generative large-language Transformer model that was a predecessor to ChatGPT. The script was generated in collaboration with creative technologist Jared Katzman, by using an algorithm that mimicked an amalgamation of texts across three datasets: a collection of texts from the Cyberfeminism Index; a subset of Poetry books from Project Gutenberg; and a manuscript of poetry from the performer Candystore.

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COME THRU, experience the ENTICEMENT of s solo show at La MaMa Galleria. Soak in a space where the language of poetry, salacious and radical, prevails in its encounters and collaborations with AI
OPEN TODAY! Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 7 pm
🔵➰The exhibition is up until June 9! DON'T MISS IT!
La MaMa presents ‘and Dan and (when some small metal is spun)’, a video based project by Itziar Barrio involving the creation of a narrative using artificial-intelligence. The resulting grammar is a glitched, a subverted and at times incorrect one. The language of poetry prevails in the final text resisting logic and opening future horizons. Itziar Barrio’s solo exhibition
includes and Dan and (when some small metal is spun) video, and related works. Barrio has developed this project as a member at the New Museum’s incubator NEW INC.
This piece uses now legacy technology, GPT-2, a form of generative large-language Transformer model that was a predecessor to ChatGPT. The script was generated in collaboration with creative technologist Jared Katzman, by using an algorithm that mimicked an amalgamation of texts across three datasets: a collection of texts from the Cyberfeminism Index; a subset of Poetry books from Project Gutenberg; and a manuscript of poetry from the performer Candystore.

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Thanks to everyone who joined us last week for a really exciting and generative conversation around the exhibition topics: AI, poetry, meaning, identity, politics and collaborations!! Itziar Barrio, Candystore and Jared Katzman, moderated by the brilliant Thyrza Nichols Goodeve. You can watch it on our instagram reels! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cscd5IXK0pf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
🔵➰The exhibition is up until June 9! Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 7 pm, DON'T MISS IT!
La MaMa presents ‘and Dan and (when some small metal is spun)’, a video based project by Itziar Barrio involving the creation of a narrative using artificial-intelligence. The resulting grammar is a glitched, a subverted and at times incorrect one. The language of poetry prevails in the final text resisting logic and opening future horizons. Itziar Barrio’s solo exhibition will include and Dan and (when some small metal is spun) video, and related works. Barrio has developed this project as a member at the New Museum’s incubator NEW INC.
This piece uses now legacy technology, GPT-2, a form of generative large-language Transformer model that was a predecessor to ChatGPT. The script was generated in collaboration with creative technologist Jared Katzman, by using an algorithm that mimicked an amalgamation of texts across three datasets: a collection of texts from the Cyberfeminism Index; a subset of Poetry books from Project Gutenberg; and a manuscript of poetry from the performer Candystore.

Photos by nne_fro

TONIGHT, 7pm✨ARTIST CONVERSATION ✨🔜Please join us for a conversation between Itziar Barrio, Candystore and Jared Katzman, moderated by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve about Barrio’s exhibition and related topics like AI, poetry, filmmaking and collaborative practices. DON’T MISS IT! ✅✨
🔵➰and Dan and (when some small metal is spun) by Itziar Barrio, May 5 - June 9
La MaMa presents ‘and Dan and (when some small metal is spun)’, a video based project by Itziar Barrio involving the creation of a narrative using artificial-intelligence. The resulting grammar is a glitched, a subverted and at times incorrect one. The language of poetry prevails in the final text resisting logic and opening future horizons. Itziar Barrio’s solo exhibition will include and Dan and (when some small metal is spun) video, and related works. Barrio has developed this project as a member at the New Museum’s incubator NEW INC.
This piece uses now legacy technology, GPT-2, a form of generative large-language Transformer model that was a predecessor to ChatGPT. The script was generated in collaboration with creative technologist Jared Katzman, by using an algorithm that mimicked an amalgamation of texts across three datasets: a collection of texts from the Cyberfeminism Index; a subset of Poetry books from Project Gutenberg; and a manuscript of poetry from the performer Candystore.

FRIDAY! ✨ARTIST CONVERSATION ✨🔜Please join us on Friday, May 19 at 7PM for a conversation between Itziar Barrio, Candystore and Jared Katzman, moderated by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve about Barrio’s exhibition and related topics like AI, poetry, filmmaking and collaborative practices. DON’T MISS IT! ✅✨
🔵➰and Dan and (when some small metal is spun) by Itziar Barrio, May 5 - June 9
La MaMa presents ‘and Dan and (when some small metal is spun)’, a video based project by Itziar Barrio involving the creation of a narrative using artificial-intelligence. The resulting grammar is a glitched, a subverted and at times incorrect one. The language of poetry prevails in the final text resisting logic and opening future horizons. Itziar Barrio’s solo exhibition will include and Dan and (when some small metal is spun) video, and related works. Barrio has developed this project as a member at the New Museum’s incubator NEW INC.
This piece uses now legacy technology, GPT-2, a form of generative large-language Transformer model that was a predecessor to ChatGPT. The script was generated in collaboration with creative technologist Jared Katzman, by using an algorithm that mimicked an amalgamation of texts across three datasets: a collection of texts from the Cyberfeminism Index; a subset of Poetry books from Project Gutenberg; and a manuscript of poetry from the performer Candystore.

Stop by!!!Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 7 pm!! 💜
🔵➰and Dan and (when some small metal is spun) by Itziar Barrio, May 5 - June 9
La MaMa presents ‘and Dan and (when some small metal is spun)’, a video based project by Itziar Barrio involving the creation of a narrative using artificial-intelligence. The resulting grammar is a glitched, a subverted and at times incorrect one. The language of poetry prevails in the final text resisting logic and opening future horizons. Itziar Barrio’s solo exhibition will include and Dan and (when some small metal is spun) video, and related works. Barrio has developed this project as a member at the New Museum’s incubator NEW INC.
This piece uses now legacy technology, GPT-2, a form of generative large-language Transformer model that was a predecessor to ChatGPT. The script was generated in collaboration with creative technologist Jared Katzman, by using an algorithm that mimicked an amalgamation of texts across three datasets: a collection of texts from the Cyberfeminism Index; a subset of Poetry books from Project Gutenberg; and a manuscript of poetry from the performer Candystore.

PREMIERING TODAY! 🔵Artificial intelligence + poetry ➡️Don’t miss it!⛓💦
🔵•We made the text included in the video using GPT-2, a predecessor to ChatGPT, which was the most advanced generative large-language Transformer model we could use at the time in 2021 - 2022. Wowww!☄️💥✨
The script was generated in collaboration with creative technologist Jared Katzman, by using an algorithm that mimicked an amalgamation of texts across three datasets: a collection of texts from the Cyberfeminism Index; a subset of Poetry books from Project Gutenberg; and a manuscript of poetry from the performer Candystore. Through alternating different prompts to the AI model and putting them in conversation, dominant narratives around labor and bodies become transfixed by the salacious and radical musings of the trained artificial-intelligent model. This unpredictable text has been then interpreted by Candystore — uncertain and vulnerable — while being filmed.

La MaMa Galleria is honored to PREMIERE “and Dan and (when some small metal is spun)” by Itziar Barrio. This exhibition explores timely subjects around artificial intelligence and ChatGPT!!💫
Don't miss it! 🔗
A video based project by Itziar Barrio involving the creation of a narrative using artificial-intelligence. Originally an online piece commissioned by Tabakalera, International Centre for Contemporary
OPENING tomorrow MAY 5, 6 - 9 pm!! Don't miss it!
and Dan and (when some small metal is spun) explores the idea of meaning - or the lack there of - between the interplay of the AI model, the script, and Candystore's interpretation. Using an earlier ancestor to ChatGPT, language models have shown and complicated what meaning looks and feels like, as so much of the conversations around ChatGPT is a misattribution of meaning around the affect of language. These systems are getting better at parroting meaningful and coherent language, but then at the same time we are quickly exposed to how quickly the AI shows its incoherence and lack of understanding. This video piece analyzes these themes and reminds us of the importance and nuance of meaning.

OPENING THIS FRIDAY! 💦May 5, 6 - 8 pm!
🔵➰and Dan and (when some small metal is spun) by Itziar Barrio, May 5 - June 9
' and Dan and (when some small metal is spun)' explores the idea of meaning - or the lack there of - between the interplay of the AI model, the script, and Candystore's interpretation. Using an earlier ancestor to ChatGPT, language models have shown and complicated what meaning looks and feels like, as so much of the conversations around ChatGPT is a misattribution of meaning around the affect of language. These systems are getting better at parroting meaningful and coherent language, but then at the same time we are quickly exposed to how quickly the AI shows its incoherence and lack of understanding. This video piece analyzes these themes and reminds us of the importance and nuance of meaning. When does it matter that the AI is coherent or incoherent? When does it matter for humans to be coherent and incoherent (not to mention incoherence is a politically powerful tool in a world of oppressive rationalization)? And how do we remind ourselves that at the end of the day, humans are who give these systems and other people meaning - it doesn't exist in objective truth.' - Jared Katzman, Technologist

OPENING: Friday, May 5, 6 - 8 pm!
🔵➰and Dan and (when some small metal is spun) by Itziar Barrio
La MaMa presents ‘and Dan and (when some small metal is spun)’, a video based project by Itziar Barrio involving the creation of a narrative using artificial-intelligence. The resulting grammar is a glitched, a subverted and at times incorrect one. The language of poetry prevails in the final text resisting logic and opening future horizons. Itziar Barrio’s solo exhibition will include and Dan and (when some small metal is spun) video, and related works. Barrio has developed this project as a member at the New Museum’s incubator NEW INC.
This piece uses now legacy technology, GPT-2, a form of generative large-language Transformer model that was a predecessor to ChatGPT. The script was generated in collaboration with creative technologist Jared Katzman, by using an algorithm that mimicked an amalgamation of texts across three datasets: a collection of texts from the Cyberfeminism Index; a subset of Poetry books from Project Gutenberg; and a manuscript of poetry from the performer Candystore.

Sound Bath!
SAVE THE DATE!
March 11, 4-5:30pm

SONICSHANTI SOUND MEDITATION
with Sara Galassini

Sound and music have been universally used as portals to meditation and the divine world for thousands of years. The concept of healing through music is also very old; the ancient traditions of Egypt, Greece and Rome understood that vibration is the fundamental force of the universe. Thus they developed specific chants to heal and access altered states of consciousness. And today sound is also considered by science to be a very effective alternative treatment method.

A Sound Meditation or Sound Bath is a personal experience of active listening and relaxation, energetic and psychophysical harmonization. While immersing ourselves in the sound vibrations of chosen instruments we are guided through a personal journey towards the conscious self. In this space of active reception, the body and mind relax and naturally resonate with the energetic and restorative essence of bells, gongs, cymbals, tuning forks, flutes, percussions, chimes, the sounds of nature and the voice. Thus our body is entrained with the sound waves and our cells are nourished through a deep internal massage.

The experience is led by Sara Galassini, an interdisciplinary artist and performer recognized internationally, active for 25 years in the field of theater, dance and music and working in Italy and New York with La MaMa ETC Theater, the Great Jones Company and many other international companies and projects..
Since 2016 Sara has been a sound therapy practitioner that uses sound and voice as alternative medicines. She has graduated from the Sound and Music Institute of the Open Center of New York City studying with John Beaulieu, Silvia Nakkach and Alexandre Tannous among other teachers. Since 2019 he has regularly held harmonic bath sessions both in the USA, in Italy and virtually with her vibrational project SonicShanti.

The event is free and open to the public. Please bring a yoga mat, blanket and eye pillow if you are able.

We are still feeling euphoric from our February 18th opening. Come to the gallery to celebrate q***r love!

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Q***r Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art

Feb 18-April 6

Q***R artists show us stories of vulnerability, tenderness, and desire in the LGBTQIA community-a community of gay, le***an, bisexual, transgender, q***r, intersex, and asexual people.
The love stories they tell may be nuanced and reflective,
or cheerful and romantic. They interpret their feelings in ink and oil, on fabric and in photographs. They draw, they paint, they sew. No matter the method, they tell a strong message--the bonds between themselves as art creators and the ties of intimacy to those they cherish are enduring and recognized.
LGBTQIA artists often move from celebrating their love to proclaiming a place for q***r people within a larger society. In lushly beautiful images, they point to the growing cultural shift towards positive q***r representations across racial, age, religious, class, and gender identities.
For the first time, Lehman College Art Gallery and La MaMa Galleria, an organization with a long and rich history of q***r programming, join in artistic partnership to present an exhibition that celebrates LGBTQIA artists. The project embraces the rainbow of individual experiences, deeply felt and intensely human, that define our lives.

TONIGHT! 6-8pm


Q***r Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art

Q***R artists show us stories of vulnerability, tenderness, and desire in the LGBTQIA community—a community of gay, le***an, bisexual, transgender, q***r, intersex, and asexual people.
The love stories they tell may be nuanced and reflective,
or cheerful and romantic. They interpret their feelings in ink and oil, on fabric and in photographs. They draw, they paint, they sew. No matter the method, they tell a strong message—the bonds between themselves as art creators and the ties of intimacy to those they cherish are enduring and recognized.
LGBTQIA artists often move from celebrating their love to proclaiming a place for q***r people within a larger society. In lushly beautiful images, they point to the growing cultural shift towards positive q***r representations across racial, age, religious, class, and gender identities.
For the first time, Lehman College Art Gallery and La MaMa Galleria, an organization with a long and rich history of q***r programming, join in artistic partnership to present an exhibition that celebrates LGBTQIA artists. The project embraces the rainbow of individual experiences, deeply felt and intensely human, that define our lives.

Artists: , , , , , Bidgood, , , , , , County, cruz_art, , .betsy, De Clement, , Fox, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Olulode, , & Neil Fernando, , , Hank Willis Thomas, , , .singer.art, , .L. Steiner, , , ,

Barbara Hammer
Nitrate Kisses, 1992.
Film, 67 minutes
B & W/sound. Courtesy of the Estate of Barbara Hammer, New York and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

La MaMa Galleria is honored to present, Q***r Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art
Opening Celebration: Saturday, February 18, 2023 6-8pm Free
Open to the public

The works featured in this two-part exhibition celebrating q***r carnality,
camaraderie, and passion—are not rigid interpretations of our existence culled from the heterosexual imagination, but pictures and objects produced by every
stripe of LGBTQIA+ within our polychromatic, ever-expanding spectrum.

Q***r Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art presents paintings, photographs, photographs, sculpture, video and multimedia work that show stories of vulnerability, tenderness, and desire in the LGBTQIA+ community − a community of affirming gay, le***an, bisexual, transgender, q***r, intersex, and asexual people.

Works by 48 artists open February 2023 – symbolically on Valentine’s Day, Tuesday February 14, at Lehman College Art Gallery in the Bronx, and on Saturday, February 18 at La MaMa Galleria in Lower Manhattan. Lehman’s artistic partnership with La MaMa Galleria, an organization with a long and rich history of q***r programming, links this project to the broader New York City LGBTQIA community.

Depicting cheerful, romantic expressions of love as well as non-traditional nuclear families, the LGBTQIA artists highlight the bonds between themselves as art creators, and their bonds to those with whom they have personal ties.

Saturday night! 6-8pm
La MaMa Galleria]

Q***r Love Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art

Tonight 5-8pm in the BRONX
Saturday 6-8pm La MaMa Galleria]
Q***R artists show us stories of vulnerability, tenderness, and desire in the LGBTQIA community—a community of gay, le***an, bisexual, transgender, q***r, intersex, and asexual people.
The love stories they tell may be nuanced and reflective, or cheerful and romantic. They interpret their feelings in ink and oil, on fabric and in photographs. They draw, they paint, they sew. No matter the method, they tell a strong message—the bonds between themselves as art creators and the ties of intimacy to those they cherish are enduring and recognized. LGBTQIA artists often move from celebrating their love to proclaiming a place for q***r people within a larger society. In lushly beautiful images, they point to the growing cultural shift towards positive q***r representations across racial, age, religious, class, and gender identities.
For the first time, Lehman College Art Gallery and La MaMa Galleria, an organization with a long and rich history of q***r programming, join in artistic partnership to present an exhibition that celebrates LGBTQIA artists. The project embraces the rainbow of individual experiences, deeply felt and intensely human, that define our lives.

Samantha Nye
VisualPleasure/JukeboxCinema-
DADDY, 2018
Video

Q***r Love Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art

Tonight 5-8pm in the BRONX
Saturday 6-8pm
Q***R artists show us stories of vulnerability, tenderness, and desire in the LGBTQIA community—a community of gay, le***an, bisexual, transgender, q***r, intersex, and asexual people.
The love stories they tell may be nuanced and reflective,
or cheerful and romantic. They interpret their feelings in ink and oil, on fabric and in photographs. They draw, they paint, they sew. No matter the method, they tell a strong message—the bonds between themselves as art creators and the ties of intimacy to those they cherish are enduring and recognized.
LGBTQIA artists often move from celebrating their love to proclaiming a place for q***r people within a larger society. In lushly beautiful images, they point to the growing cultural shift towards positive q***r representations across racial, age, religious, class,
and gender identities.
For the first time, Lehman College Art Gallery and La MaMa Galleria, an organization with a long and rich history of q***r programming, join in artistic partnership to present an exhibition that celebrates LGBTQIA artists. The project embraces the rainbow of individual experiences, deeply felt and intensely human, that define our lives.

Adriana Elena Bravo Morales
Beso De Chola/Chola Kiss, 2016.
Digital print,
36 x 24 inches.
Created for the exhibition Lo Normal, curated by Maria Teresa Rojas and Mirisabel Villagomez, in collaboration with Ivanna Terrazas. Photography by Antonio Suarez for project Beso de Chola
Courtesy of the artist

James Bidgood
Smoking, Sandcastles 1960s, early 1960s. Signed, dated, and numbered, verso. Digital C-print, 15 x 15 inches (image). Edition of 25.
Courtesy of CLAMP, New York


Jess T. Dugan
Laurel, 2014.
Archival pigment print,
24 x 18 inches.
Signed and numbered, verso. Edition of 10 + and AP. Courtesy of CLAMP, New York

ggggrimes
Date Night Distancing, August 9th 2021. Digital print on canvas, 24 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist

The Lovers
Lizzie Alexandra


Q***R artists show us stories of vulnerability, tenderness, and desire in the LGBTQIA community—a community of gay, le***an, bisexual, transgender, q***r, intersex, and asexual people. The love stories they tell may be nuanced and reflective, or cheerful and romantic. They interpret their feelings in ink and oil, on fabric and in photographs. They draw, they paint, they sew. No matter the method, they tell a strong message—the bonds between themselves as art creators and the ties of intimacy to those they cherish are enduring and recognized. LGBTQIA artists often move from celebrating their love to proclaiming a place for q***r people within a larger society. In lushly beautiful images, they point to the growing cultural shift towards positive q***r representations across racial, age, religious, class, and gender identities.
For the first time, Lehman College Art Gallery and La MaMa Galleria, an organization with a long and rich history of q***r programming, join in artistic partnership to present an exhibition that celebrates LGBTQIA artists. The project embraces the rainbow of individual experiences, deeply felt and intensely human, that define our lives.

This photo will be on view at La MaMa
Opening Receptions:
Tuesday, February 14th 5-8pm reservation required
Saturday, February 18th 6-8pm at LaMaMa Galleria free and open to ALL

Betsy Damon

The Intimacy of Carving Together, 1972
Print
11 x 8 ½ inches
Courtesy of the artist

Q***R artists show us stories of vulnerability, tenderness, and desire in the LGBTQIA community—a community of gay, le***an, bisexual, transgender, q***r, intersex, and asexual people.
The love stories they tell may be nuanced and reflective,
or cheerful and romantic. They interpret their feelings in ink and oil, on fabric and in photographs. They draw, they paint, they sew. No matter the method, they tell a strong message—the bonds between themselves as art creators and the ties of intimacy to those they cherish are enduring and recognized.
LGBTQIA artists often move from celebrating their love to proclaiming a place for q***r people within a larger society. In lushly beautiful images, they point to the growing cultural shift towards positive q***r representations across racial, age, religious, class,
and gender identities.
For the first time, Lehman College Art Gallery and La MaMa Galleria, an organization with a long and rich history of q***r programming, join in artistic partnership to present an exhibition that celebrates LGBTQIA artists. The project embraces the rainbow of individual experiences, deeply felt and intensely human, that define our lives.

Opening Reception
Saturday, February 18th 6-8pm at LaMaMa Galleria