"When Girls Were Boys and Boys Were Girls" Exhibition

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

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When Girls Were Boys and Boys Were Girls is an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Grace Moon and Jen P. Harris. Focusing on portraiture, the artists use the lens to explore themes of romance, androgyny and homosexuality in queer pop culture.

Referencing cinematic stills, Harris creates closely cropped charcoal drawings of couples embracing. By slightly altering her characters, she releases herself of heterosexual stereotypes, obscuring their faces and leaving the viewer with a vaguely familiar scene.

With a background in traditional oil painting, Moon shows Western imagery in the way of lineage tradition. Her colorful paintings of gay subjects can be seen in the context of queer identity in a way that is reminiscent of Mapplethorpe and Opie.

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from February 19, 2010 to May 01, 2010

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