Queer Elders

Queer Elders

Richard Tsao's "Sanuk" Art

In an interview with Hyperallergic, the artist known for his "Flood Room" paintings compares his decades-long practice to "the need for food."

Queer Elders

Don’t Ask Lari Pittman What His Work Is “About”

The Colombian-American painter discusses his new body of work, the complexity of queerness, and the reprieve of the analog.

Queer Elders

Going Deep With Brenda Goodman

“I remember taking a plaid dress, tearing it up, and using it as paint rags,” the 83-year-old painter tells me in a knee-to-knee interview at her studio.

Queer Elders

By the Force of Flavia Rando's Presence

Once a member of the Gay Liberation Front and Radicalesbians, the pathbreaking queer artist and educator continues to stir the pot.

Queer Elders

Rosalie Favell and the Search for Herself

“I came out as a lesbian before I came out as an Indigenous woman,” the Métis artist told Hyperallergic.

Queer Elders

Sarah Schulman’s Four Decades of Lesbian Fiction

“Nothing stops me except the publishing industry,” quipped the novelist and AIDS historian, who cut her teeth as an East Village journalist writing for queer and feminist papers.

Queer Elders

Nayland Blake Doesn’t Believe in Fixed Selves

“You have to be a person who champions other work,” they told Hyperallergic, “so that you build the context within which your work can be legible.”

Queer Elders

Jamie Nares’s Enduring Romance With the Brushstroke

The New York-based painter and filmmaker speaks to Hyperallergic about finding the essence of things.

Interview

Norman Kleeblatt’s Very New York Story

“My question to myself was whether and how to be an ‘out Jew’,” the longtime curator told Hyperallergic in an interview.

Interview

Ari Moore’s Long Road From Police Officer to Buffalo Trans Icon

“If I do not share the knowledge I have, it's all wasted when I'm gone,” the artist, educator, and activist told Hyperallergic.

Interview

Deborah Bright’s Art Puts the Sex Back in Sexuality

“My desires are pretty fluid and I openly embrace the different erotic subjectivities that inhabit my brain,” the artist said in an interview with Hyperallergic.

Interview

Carrie Yamaoka Thrives Between the Cracks

“For years I was an emerging artist and then it seemed like I couldn’t be called emerging anymore. Let’s hope we are all emerging, always,” the artist said.