Through this embrace of negation, artists illustrate alternate possibilities and propose radically new ways of being. Works in the exhibition subvert and reimagine signifiers of masculinity, imagine new forms of childhood, or resist linear narratives of progress. Dissolution refers to artistic strategies of negation and undoing, in which representations of hierarchical and normative structures are fragmented, dissolved, or upended, in an act of resistance to the structures of oppression they uphold. Continuing that legacy, these works consider the role of queerness at the intersection of wider social relations, including class and inequality, race, and ecological crisis.
Queer artists have always existed at the forefront of politically engaged artmaking. The Fellows come from disparate backgrounds and engage in equally divergent art practices, and their artwork presents a multitude of positions within contemporary queer identity. THE LESLIE LOHMAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, NYĭissolution features works of art created by the first two cohorts of the annual Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship 2017-19.
February, 2021 Group Exhibition: DISSOLUTION
