• Interviews

Raynes Birkbeck on Painting an Inclusive Queer Science-Fiction Reality

The Bronx-born, self-taught painter and sculptor melds personal experience with issues of ecology, politics, war, religion, and queer representation.

• By
  Francesca Aton
• Jun 26, 2020 11:07 am

• AiA Photos

Photos: Raynes Birkbeck on Painting an Inclusive Queer Science-Fiction Reality

• By
  Art in America
• Jun 26, 2020 10:23 am

• Features

Material Witnesses: Art and AIDS at the San Francisco Arts Commission

"With(out) With(in) the very moment" brings together a group of eight Bay Area artists whose lives and practices were indelibly marked by their experiences of San Francisco in the early 1990s.

• By
  Matt Sussman
• Jun 19, 2019 2:45 pm

• Features

Subcultural Treasures

In the early 1990s, Blake spotted the ascent of identity art and began to seek out ways to work around it.

• By
  Brian Droitcour
• May 1, 2018 9:00 am

• Features

In the Room

Captioning an image is the task of both the photographer and those who preserve the image in perpetuity.

• By
  Ariel Goldberg
• Apr 1, 2018 10:30 am

• Features

First Look: Michael Stamm

While other young gay painters often trade in erotic imagery, Stamm sublimates the libidinal drive in more cerebral activity, coding quotidian objects with queer history and imbuing them with the…

• By
  Eric Sutphin
• Feb 1, 2018 10:00 am