I am really excited to participate in the upcoming Love Is Love exhibition at the Emmanuel Gallery in Denver. This show was organized in support of National Coming Out Day and gave me an opportunity to create something special just for this show.
Here's a statement and some photos of the work:
In 1873 Pierre-Auguste Cot created Springtime, a painting that over the last 140 years has become one of the most prominent images of young romantic love. For the exhibition Love is Love, the work has been recreated as a diorama or stage set that visitors are invited to step into to take a seat on the swing with their sweetheart and be photographed. The idea being that romantic love is something that is not only accessible to all of us regardless of sex, age, or race, but also something that is arguably the most profound event of our individual lives. The more couples that participate, the greater our ideas will be surrounding what romantic love “looks like.” Participants are asked to share their photographs of the work using #meandmybae. Bae, as defined by Urban Dictionary, is an acronym that stands for “before anyone else” or a shortened version of baby or babe. It is another word for sweetheart and is a popular term of endearment used by the youth of today.
Love Is Love: an exhibition in support of National Coming Out Day
October 6 - November 7, 2015
Emmanuel Gallery, Auraria Campus
1205 10th St.
Denver, CO 80204
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 4-7pm
Day of Arts in Action Workshops: Octover 13, 2015
The Love Party: October 23, 2015, 7-10pm
