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UNCENSORED: Queer Art and the Church video

A print of my painting ‘ Damned ‘ was in this exhibition, it can be viewed at 3:01 in the video.

http://youtu.be/S0rgqIpuHks

Published on Mar 29, 2012 by 

UNCENSORED: Queer Art and the Church
Group Exhibition
March 27-April 1, 2012; 12-6pm
Leslie-Lohman Annex 127-B Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
http://www.uncensoredexhibition.org/

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29 May 2012

Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church

Yesterday evening was the opening reception for UNCENSORED: Queer Art and the Church Exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Annex Gallery.

A print of my painting ‘ Damned ‘ was part of this important exhibition denouncing the censorship of Queer Art by the Church. My friend Con Artist who also had a print of one of her pieces up on the walls of this exhibition, can be seen pointing to the image of my piece. Her’s is with the hooded priest and Altar boy. The exhibition runs till April 1, 2012.

Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church is an activist riposte to the shameful history of censorship against LGBTQ art and artists by both the Catholic Church and Fundamentalist Protestant Churches. The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art firmly believes that all art should be seen and displayed without regard to content; therefore submissions to Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church were not curated, edited, interpreted or censored.

UNCENSORED: Queer Art and the Church
March 27-April 1, 2012; 12pm-6pm

In response to the church’s recent call to censor the groundbreaking exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Brooklyn Museum, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is hosting Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church

Leslie-Lohman Museum Annex
127-B Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
info@uncensoredexhibition.org

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28 Mar 2012

UNCENSORED:
Queer Art and the Church

Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church is an activist riposte to the shameful history of censorship against LGBTQ art and artists by both the Catholic Church and Fundamentalist Protestant Churches. The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art firmly believes that all art should be seen and displayed without regard to content; therefore submissions to Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church were not curated, edited, interpreted or censored.

The image of my painting ‘ Damned ‘ will be among the art exhibited.

Opening Reception:
Tuesday, March 27; 6-8PM                                                                                                                        

On view for one week

March 27-31, 12pm-6pm

Leslie-Lohman Museum Annex

127-B Prince Street, New York, NY 10012

info@uncensoredexhibition.org

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26 Mar 2012

If my Vagina got Dressed: The Life and Work of Joelle Circé

 Toronto based author Liz Bugg who is on her second novel in her Calli Barnow Mystery Series and I have entered into an agreement for her to write my memoirs of the past dozen years, beginning from the transition and moving  forward through my art and life.

 Liz first book Red Rover was a success and her second one called Oranges and Lemons is due for release on April 15th, 2012. 

Please go check out her website as well as her Facebook Fan Page:

http://www.lizbugg.com

http-//www.facebook.com/CalliBarnowMysterySeries


 

 

 

         

         




 

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19 Mar 2012

Joelle Circé’s Artistic Journey

This is a phone interview I had with Luna Allison for Xtra.ca magazine online about my art and my Solo show at Venus Envy Ottawa.

 

Joelle Circé’s artistic journey
ON DISPLAY / Painter went from Scientology to kink and BDSM-themed art
Joelle Circé has been experiencing an artistic and personal awakening.
As a lesbian of transexual origin, Circé’s physical transition has also led to a profound emotional shift. She started to experience a new level of wonder and fascination with women’s bodies, and her growing personal experience with misogyny and oppression transformed her art into decidedly queer work.
“I had stopped [painting] for about ten years before my transition,” says Circé. “Before that, I was doing landscapes, still lifes and portraits for a living. It wasn’t satisfying enough. I dropped it all, walked away from it and joined Scientology for 14 years.”
But when Circé came out as a woman to her fellow Scientologists in Los Angeles, she says it did not go over well. She decided to move back to Canada and make space in her life to fully become herself.
Joelle Circé paints erotic scenes ranging from rope play to crucifixion.
(Joelle Circé)
This month at Venus Envy, locals get a chance to see what she’s been working on throughout this transformative period.
Her body of work began with a series of vaginal portraits she started painting 12 years ago.
“They were the first paintings I did after my transition,” says Circé. “Some of them are erotic — BDSM and fetish — and others are more feminist, addressing body issues and misogyny.”
From there, Circé moved on to a series of portraits with queer and kink themes — capturing rope play, eroticism, dildos and harnesses, moments of personal and sexual liberation, as well as images of the queer and gaymous, like Montreal’s Nat King Pole and New York’s Con Artist.
These last two portraits are currently on loan to the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York, along with an image of transsexual crucifixion, called Damned, which was accepted into the permanent collection there four months ago.
“I was in at the reception for an all women’s art show, called Estrogenius, in New York,” says Circé. “The curator said, ‘Come over here. I want to introduce you to someone.’ Very unexpected. That’s how it came about.”
This month’s show, The Art of Joelle Circé, features samples of the Circé’s edgiest work, which is right at home amongst the dildos, vibrators, floggers, rope and books of erotica permanently on offer at Venus Envy.
Broken Images is on display at Venus Envy
(Joelle Circé)
The Deets:
The Art of Joelle Circé
March 4–31
Venus Envy
320 Lisgar St
circesart.com

venusenvy.ca

 

http://www.xtra.ca/public/Ottawa/Joelle_Circes_artistic_journey-11689.aspx#.T2ER7BHBH9l.facebook

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15 Mar 2012

Opening reception / Vernissage at Venus Envy Ottawa, the results !

A few photos I took during the opening reception / Vernissage at Venus Envy Ottawa on march 4th. I made 2 sales in the two hours this event lasted. The show itself continues all of march 2012.

 

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7 Mar 2012

Biography in the works

Toronto based author Liz Bugg ( Red Rover ) and I have entered into an agreement to work on a biography of sorts about my life which begins just around the period of my transition and then taking back up of my passion to create.

This will take a year if not more and will deal with how my art has been influenced by the experiences of the past dozen years or so. It’s an honour and privilege to collaborate with her on this project. Please feel free to check out her book ‘ Red Rover ‘.

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6 Jan 2012
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