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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 theObjectified
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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An intro into the world of Circé
Circe is a queer femme artist of transsexual origin. Her drawings and paintings reflect an integrated queer feminism that is political, social, and often emotional in nature. Of late she has begun to work on a new series celebrating queer lives. Her wish is to represent the diversity of queer people. Circé’s passion and exploration of queer realities is motivation for what she commits to being a lifelong exploration.
To date, she has created paintings capturing moments and images of a High Femme, a trio of Butch women at seated at a Bar while a femme checks them out, a Drag King, a Kiki Lesbian Tanguero, a Butch Vagina, and her moving interpretation of a Transsexual crucifixion which she donated to the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in Soho, New York and is now part of their permanent collection. Circe is eagerly committed to producing art that further reflects the many dynamic facets of Queer identity and existence.
* my sister originally composed this note about me,I have simply updated it.
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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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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
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.
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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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Owning my gaze.
I find that in order for my art to be relevant, I must speak about what matters to me as a woman. I can only be the owner of what emanates from my gaze as an artist. My desire is to paint on topics that lends voice to my own gender and sex as a woman, to speak about queer women, erotica from a woman’s point of view, about struggles and social injustices towards women is what vibrates within me.
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Two paintings sold at Venus Envy Ottawa
Below are the two paintings that were sold during the Opening reception / Vernissage at Venus Envy Ottawa on march 4th, 2012. It’s always such a plus to receive positive feedback from those who visit and comment of my art and when a piece is sold, this also is very encouraging to me as a woman artist.
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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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Pole Dancer
Photo gallery → Click here to view
Pole Dancer
© Circé
charcoal on paper
11in. x 21in.
$275.00 CAD ( framed )
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Bound in Ecstasy
Photo gallery → Click here to view
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