Just Another June
Image Credit: Tricia Rainwater, I’ll say I loved you years ago, 2024
Image Description: This is a photo of two people sitting at a wooden table. The person on the left is hugging a small dog and wearing a cherry-red beanie. Two green translucent glasses are on the table. A small black picture frame is in the background and an overhead lamp.
Just After June
Just Another June is curated by Root Division Studio Artists Victoria Cheng, Chase Irvin, Josie Licavoli, Maya Salcido White, and Lonnie Taylor.
This exhibition is a playful celebration of queerness through experimentation, abstraction, conceptual thought, and merit in all media. Taking inspiration from the bell hooks quote: “Queer’ not as being about who you’re having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but ‘queer’ as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
Just Another June explores the day-to-day of queerness– queerness in the mundane, queerness in the ordinary, queerness in mere existence, expansive queerness, quiet queerness, and beyond. Shifting the focus away from heteronormative displays of queer lifestyles, this show highlights nuanced yet familiar themes such as platonic intimacy, chosen family, everyday subversive acts, and the relationship (and lack thereof) between gender expression and sexual preference. This is a celebration of just “being.”
ARTISTS:
Alma Landeta*
Aris Ruff
Audrey Herrera**
Ayoade Balogun
B Gamut
Benny Siam*
Brittani Chew
Ché Peng
Chey Yen and Ames Ma
Clementine Keenan
Cloud Lu
Deniz Kaptan
Duma Mock
E. Barrios
el lee
Ell Lin
Eva Hoffman
Fadi Aljabour
Gene VanWyck
Hans Dragoo
Humberto Maldonado
Hunter Ridenour**
Ian James
Isaac Koyama
Jada Haynes
Jake Rose
Jang Lee
Jasper Wilde
Joel Angel
Krista Wright
Laura Sanford*
Lindsey Filowitz
Moena Weiss
Nathaniel Bice
Nick Simko
Rohan DaCosta
Sammy Gripe**
Sen Lu
Star Lahey-Buckley
Tara Liu
Tricia Rainwater*
William Ulrich
Zoe Segura
* Studio Alum ** Studio Artist + Fellow
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Exhibition Dates
June 7 – 26, 2024
Second Saturday Reception
June 8, 2024 | 6 – 8 PM
Gallery Hours
Wednesday – Saturday from 2-6 PM
Saturday by appointment only