Chinese-American artist Jeffrey Cheung’s hairy and intertwined queer and trans figures gave me a lift today. Playful and positive, and sweet as ice cream ads, Cheung’s 2016 exhibition featured comfortable peach and pink figures in couplings, but with some minor adjustments to his palette and the numbers of figures, his recent paintings depict multicolored figures in sexually playful groups.
“Celebrating all bodies, especially those of people of color, is what I am excited to depict; images of human connection, unity, and love.” – Jeffrey Cheung
Happy pride weekend!
Jeffrey Cheung, mural outside of Starline Social Club, Oakland, 2020
[image_with_animation image_url=”9047″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Eleanora Duse When looking at John Singer Sargent’s “effortless” portraits, I often wonder how long he actually spent on each. He wanted the painting to look fresh, with an economy of brush strokes, so a painting that looks like it was done in one …
Do you send out a handmade holiday card this year? It’s a lot for an artist to keep up with, hand making each gift and greeting. Printmakers seem well suited for this time of year. Painters, not so much. Sending an original work of art to everyone on my list seems impossible, but an inability …
Yesterday’s Tucket was listed as the last day, but there is one more: Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for …
This is day 9 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here. Draw an aerial view of your living area or studio space, wherever you spend the most time, as if it was an abstract composition. If people and pets are moving through the space then include them too, …
Celebrate the hairy and intertwined
Chinese-American artist Jeffrey Cheung’s hairy and intertwined queer and trans figures gave me a lift today. Playful and positive, and sweet as ice cream ads, Cheung’s 2016 exhibition featured comfortable peach and pink figures in couplings, but with some minor adjustments to his palette and the numbers of figures, his recent paintings depict multicolored figures in sexually playful groups.
“Celebrating all bodies, especially those of people of color, is what I am excited to depict; images of human connection, unity, and love.” – Jeffrey Cheung
Happy pride weekend!
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