{"id":1084,"date":"2021-07-16T09:28:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T01:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2021-07-16T09:28:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T01:28:18","slug":"new-talent-6-queer-figurative-painters-reimagining-intimacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/new-talent-6-queer-figurative-painters-reimagining-intimacy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Talent: 6 Queer Figurative Painters Reimagining Intimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical__slide-wrapper\" data-slide-id=\"1234598580\" data-slide-index=\"0\" data-slide-position-display=\"1\">\n<article class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image\">\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__header\">\n<p>Whether painting figures beyond the confines of the gender binary with blurry ambiguity or memorializing formative moments of sexual exploration in exquisite detail, a growing group of painters is developing a new visual vocabulary for depicting queer intimacy. Melding ambitions at one personal, political, and painterly, this cohort celebrates queer intimacy\u2014emphatically\u00a0and\u00a0at times with trepidation, delicately refuting the oppressive gazes that sometimes accompany visibility. Their works range from sexy to sad, rowdy to raw, and hot to heavy, all the while doing the important work of expanding our repertoire of intimate imagery.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look below at some of the most exciting queer figurative painters working today.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__title\">Willa Chasmsweet Wasserman<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__figure c-gallery-slide--loaded c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__figure--loaded\" role=\"presentation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__image u-gallery-react-placeholder-shimmer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC0940-copy.jpg?w=750\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 414px, (max-width: 1024px) 800px, (max-width: 1440px) 960px, (max-width: 2560px) 960px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC0940-copy.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC0940-copy.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC0940-copy.jpg?w=750 750w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC0940-copy.jpg?w=960 960w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSC0940-copy.jpg?w=1280 1280w\" alt=\"A painting takes the form of a largely black ricle. Two bent arms and a window, both yellowish, are faintly visible.\" width=\"718\" height=\"575\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__share-icons\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit-text\">Photo<\/span><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__colon\">\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit\">Courtesy the artist.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__description\">\n<h4>Willa Chasmsweet Wasserman:\u00a0<em>Figure with vase and seashell<\/em>, 2021, oil on blackened steel with hardware, 11 in diameter.<\/h4>\n<p>To avoid subsuming subjects into her own worldview, Willa Chasmsweet Wasserman paints using certain techniques that restrain her vision. Working in the dark, she draws with brass wool or observes her subjects using a convex security mirror that flops and distorts their appearance. Regarding the forced haziness of the resulting images, Wasserman has said that these techniques are \u201ca restraint against my own bullshit.\u201d In her paintings, it is difficult to discern a figure\u2019s face or gender. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\">Los Angeles\u2013based<\/a> artist will open her first New York solo show, \u201cchasm sweet,\u201d this September at Downs &amp; Ross.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical__slide-wrapper\" data-slide-id=\"1234598568\" data-slide-index=\"1\" data-slide-position-display=\"2\">\n<article class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image\">\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__header\">\n<h2 class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__title\">Frieda Toranzo Jaeger<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__figure c-gallery-slide--loaded c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__figure--loaded\" role=\"presentation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__image u-gallery-react-placeholder-shimmer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/005FriedaToranzoJaeger_Sappho_2019.jpg?w=800\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 414px, (max-width: 1024px) 800px, (max-width: 1440px) 1024px, (max-width: 2560px) 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/005FriedaToranzoJaeger_Sappho_2019.jpg?w=320 320w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/005FriedaToranzoJaeger_Sappho_2019.jpg?w=640 640w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/005FriedaToranzoJaeger_Sappho_2019.jpg?w=800 800w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/005FriedaToranzoJaeger_Sappho_2019.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/005FriedaToranzoJaeger_Sappho_2019.jpg?w=1250 1250w\" alt=\"A triptych shows a jungle scene with a car seat in it. One woman with dark skin has her face in the crotch of another woman, whose skin is lighter. Three pomeranians populate the secene.\" width=\"786\" height=\"575\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__share-icons\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit-text\">Photo<\/span><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__colon\">\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit\">Photo Jens Ziehe. Courtesy the artist and Barbara Weiss, Berlin.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__description\">\n<h4>Frieda Toranzo Jaeger:\u00a0<em>Sappho<\/em>, 2019, oil on canvas, 29\u00bd by 70 inches.<\/h4>\n<p>In her works shaped like altarpieces with panels on hinges, the Mexico City\u2013based Frieda Toranzo Jaeger often paints lesbians having sex in driverless cars. Automobiles without drivers fascinate Jaeger, who sees them as a symbol of the future\u2014one she wants to claim as a queer space. Typically, these paintings also include embroidered elements. Her family is trained in Mexican embroidery styles, and she often enlists them to help produce these pieces. For her current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">Baltimore Museum<\/a> of Art show, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">The Perpetual Sense of Redness<\/a>,\u201d on view through October 3, she incorporated the technique in order to insert \u201can Indigenous tradition into a Western one,\u201d as she put it in an\u00a0<em>Art in America<\/em>\u00a0interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical__slide-wrapper\" data-slide-id=\"1234598574\" data-slide-index=\"2\" data-slide-position-display=\"3\">\n<article class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image\">\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__header\">\n<h2 class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__title\">Ambera Wellmann<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__figure c-gallery-slide--loaded c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__figure--loaded\" role=\"presentation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__image u-gallery-react-placeholder-shimmer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AW053.jpg?w=521\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 414px, (max-width: 1024px) 667px, (max-width: 1440px) 667px, (max-width: 2560px) 667px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AW053.jpg?w=208 208w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AW053.jpg?w=417 417w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AW053.jpg?w=521 521w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AW053.jpg?w=667 667w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AW053.jpg?w=889 889w\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"575\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__share-icons\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit-text\">Photo<\/span><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__colon\">\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit\">Courtesy the artist and Company Gallery, New York.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__description\">\n<p><strong>Ambera Wellmann:\u00a0<em>Nosegaze<\/em>, 2020, oil on linen, 27\u00bd by 23\u00bd inches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wellmann\u2019s figures often appear more like swirling masses with a few distinct body parts poking out\u2014one lover seems to meld with another, and sometimes it\u2019s hard to tell just how many people are present. The Canadian\u2013born, New York\u2013based painter lends her canvases a certain sheen using delicate, deliberate touches of white paint. Her finished works retain a palpable sense of paint\u2019s liquid nature and capture the rawness of desire. Her solo exhibition at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\">Metropolitan Arts Centre<\/a> in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is on view through August 8.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical__slide-wrapper\" data-slide-id=\"1234598556\" data-slide-index=\"3\" data-slide-position-display=\"4\">\n<article class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image\">\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__header\">\n<h2 class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__title\">Sasha Gordon<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__figure c-gallery-slide--loaded c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__figure--loaded\" role=\"presentation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__image u-gallery-react-placeholder-shimmer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MBLA-SG024.jpg?w=800\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 414px, (max-width: 1024px) 800px, (max-width: 1440px) 1024px, (max-width: 2560px) 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MBLA-SG024.jpg?w=320 320w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MBLA-SG024.jpg?w=640 640w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MBLA-SG024.jpg?w=800 800w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MBLA-SG024.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MBLA-SG024.jpg?w=1250 1250w\" alt=\"A horizontal blue painting that shows Asian women camping. Two are swimming naked, one is chopping wood, and three are enjoying beer around a fire.\" width=\"887\" height=\"575\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__share-icons\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit-text\">Photo<\/span><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__colon\">\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit\">Courtesy the artist and Matthew Brown, Los Angeles. Photo Ed Mumford.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__description\">\n<h4>Sasha Gordon:\u00a0<em>Campfire<\/em>, 2021, oil on canvas, 64 by 113\u00bd x 1\u00bd inches.<\/h4>\n<p>In her first solo show, held earlier this year at Matthew Brown gallery in Los Angeles, Brooklyn-based artist Sasha Gordon presented skillfully rendered moments of self-discovery from her youth. In her paintings, Gordon aims to think through the dynamics she experienced growing up as a queer Asian girl in a white, upper middle-class New York suburb, where \u201ceverything I did felt like I was performing for men,\u201d as she once said. Two works in the Matthew Brown show,\u00a0<em>Pond Lovers\u00a0<\/em>(2020) and\u00a0<em>Campfire\u00a0<\/em>(2021), show a pair of young women skinny dipping together, capturing the excitement that is unencumbered youthful romance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical__slide-wrapper\" data-slide-id=\"1234598570\" data-slide-index=\"4\" data-slide-position-display=\"5\">\n<article class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image\">\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__header\">\n<h2 class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__title\">Jonathan Lyndon Chase<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__figure c-gallery-slide--loaded c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__figure--loaded\" role=\"presentation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__image u-gallery-react-placeholder-shimmer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JLC_VideoVixens_2020.jpg?w=678\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 414px, (max-width: 1024px) 800px, (max-width: 1440px) 868px, (max-width: 2560px) 868px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JLC_VideoVixens_2020.jpg?w=271 271w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JLC_VideoVixens_2020.jpg?w=542 542w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JLC_VideoVixens_2020.jpg?w=678 678w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JLC_VideoVixens_2020.jpg?w=868 868w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JLC_VideoVixens_2020.jpg?w=1157 1157w\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"575\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__share-icons\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit-text\">Photo<\/span><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__colon\">\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit\">Photo Alec Smith. Courtesy the artist and Company Gallery, New York.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__description\">\n<h4>Jonathan Lyndon Chase:\u00a0<em>Video Vixens<\/em>, 2020, acrylic, oil stick, marker, collage, and spray paint on muslin, 72 by 60 inches.<\/h4>\n<p>The Philadelphia-based painter\u2019s brightly colored and loosely rendered portraits of queer Black people depict pleasure in all its complexity. At times, the works bear traces of violence. \u201cAs someone living with bipolar disorder,\u201d Jonathan Lyndon Chase once said, \u201cit\u2019s really important for me to talk about that full complex range.\u201d Still, the painter is careful not to spectacularize anti-Black violence. \u201cWhether in lynching postcards or on Instagram, there are too many images of our bodies just being paraded around.\u201d Chase is also intent on making their art accessible to a broad audience, citing Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, and Henry Taylor as influences in that regard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical__slide-wrapper\" data-slide-id=\"1234598571\" data-slide-index=\"5\" data-slide-position-display=\"6\">\n<article class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image\">\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__header\">\n<h2 class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__title\">Jenna Gribbon<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__figure c-gallery-slide--loaded c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__figure--loaded\" role=\"presentation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__image u-gallery-react-placeholder-shimmer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Tenderness-and-Trust-JG.jpg?w=757\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 414px, (max-width: 1024px) 800px, (max-width: 1440px) 969px, (max-width: 2560px) 969px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Tenderness-and-Trust-JG.jpg?w=303 303w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Tenderness-and-Trust-JG.jpg?w=605 605w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Tenderness-and-Trust-JG.jpg?w=757 757w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Tenderness-and-Trust-JG.jpg?w=969 969w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Tenderness-and-Trust-JG.jpg?w=1250 1250w\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"575\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__share-icons\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit-text\">Photo<\/span><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__colon\">\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-gallery-vertical-slide__photo-credit\">Courtesy the artist and Fredericks &amp; Freiser, New York.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-featured-image__description\">\n<h4>Jenna Gribbon,\u00a0<em>Tenderness and Trust<\/em>, 2019, 8 by 10 inches, oil on Linen.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">Jenna Gribbon<\/a>, who was born in Tennessee and lives in Brooklyn, has made dozens of paintings of her fianc\u00e9e, the indie musician Torres. In her paintings, the artist seeks a mingling of \u201cmotherhood, sexuality, humor, and the everyday, since we often act as if we have to relegate separate parts of ourselves to these things, which is a bit absurd,\u201d as she told\u00a0<em>Art in America<\/em>\u00a0in 2019. Her subjects have neon nipples that are impossible to miss. The move to highlight that part of her figures\u2019 bodies is a playful effort to make viewers self-conscious about their gazes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether painting figures beyond the confines of the gender binary with blurry ambiguity or memorializing formative moments of sexual exploration in exquisite detail, a growing group of painters is developing a new visual vocabulary for depicting queer intimacy. Melding ambitions at one personal, political, and painterly, this cohort celebrates queer intimacy\u2014emphatically\u00a0and\u00a0at times with trepidation, delicately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artist","8":"category-auction","9":"category-events","10":"category-gallery","11":"category-latest-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Talent: 6 Queer Figurative Painters Reimagining Intimacy - Investable Art Auctioneer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Whether painting figures beyond the confines of the gender binary with blurry ambiguity or memorializing formative moments of sexual exploration in exquisite detail, a growing group of painters is developing a new visual vocabulary for depicting queer intimacy.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/new-talent-6-queer-figurative-painters-reimagining-intimacy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Talent: 6 Queer Figurative Painters Reimagining Intimacy - 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