The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews
The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews was created to highlight the artists of the 2020 Naked Truth Pride Exhibition. Expanding beyond the 5 artists of the show, the show will continue beyond June with interviews of queer artists of all backgrounds and mediums, sharing their lives, discussing their work, and exploring the connections between their sexuality and their artistic practices, processes, and careers.Beyond the 2020 June show, The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews seeks to amplify the reach of queer artists, as the freelance art community has been deeply affected by the COVID-19 crisis, both bringing their works to a wider audience and bringing us all closer through a digital community of celebrating art and sharing our unique narratives as queer people. Artists will mostly be based out of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
Episodes
[Recorded on Friday, April 30, 2021] This episode was recorded using Zoom
Today I am joined by Elon. They are a pansexual, multidisciplinary, autodidact artist from Baltimore, Maryland that specializes in electronic production, singing and songwriting. They've completed 4 nationwide tours and performed alongside some of their favorite artists. Elon had their music featured in the Coach SS21 look book presentation.
[Recorded on Saturday, April 25, 2021]
Today I am joined by Alex Temple. She is a queer composer, writer, performer, educator and and self-described polystylist, postmodernist and surrealist. In February of 2020 Julia Holter and Spektral Quartet performed Alex’s song cycle Behind the Wallpaper at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, alongside works by two fellow trans artists — composer Gene Knific and filmmaker Lyra Hill.
Examples...
[Recorded on Friday, April 9]
Today I am joined by Russell Henry Holbert. They are a queer artist and scholar who works in and around opera and rhetoric. Russell received his BFA in vocal performance from Carnegie Mellon University, where he is currently pursuing his MA in Rhetoric. They currently live in Pittsburgh, where they have performed with Steel City Opera, The Pittsburgh Savoyards, and Carnegie Mellon's School of ...
[Recorded on Sunday, March 28, 2021]
Today I am joined by Joan Cox. A Baltimore-born feminist and lesbian artist, Joan is a figurative painter whose work portrays intimate and loving relationships between women—through the use of contemporary narrative portraiture. Joan is represented by Catalyst Contemporary in Baltimore and had her most recent solo exhibit entitled “Frauenhaus” at Catalyst in late 2019 - early 2020.
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[Recorded on Friday, April 2, 2021]
Today I am joined by Diamond David Anthony (ĐĐA ). They are a non-binary multi-genre music artist and performer. Diamond recently performed an hour show for The Cultured Professional-TCP, a Black owned Roku TV network, for their Black Music Matters program.
Examples of ĐĐA 's work (including works referenced in the episode):
Ways to Connect:
SEASON 1 Finale!
Today I am joined by James Newland, also known as SpacePup Silver. He is a gay fetish illustrator documenting the strange and slippery lives of gimps. Silver has recently partnered with two of the major fetish stores here in the UK, with an exclusive enamel pin for REGULATION and a T-Shirt project with Invincible Rubber.
Work examples (links for the notes):
Today I am joined by Kent Lau. He is an artist whose simplicity of materials and style tells a story of authenticity and getting back to basics. He is a prolific artist whose work has been included in 14 art shows, including 2 solo shows. During the COVID-19 lockdown, Kent curated a virtual art auction that raised over $4,000 for Covid-19 emergency relief funds
Examples of Kent's work (including works referenced in the episode)...
Today I am joined by Phong Tran. He is a composer exploring new mediums at the intersection of electronic music, visuals, and programming. Phong is a recent Bang on a Can Summer Institute Fellow and is in residence at the So Percussion Studio with MEDIAQUEER, a queer multimedia duo with fellow artist Darian Thomas.
Examples of Phong's work (including works referenced in the episode):
Ways t...
Today I am joined by Kotic Couture. They are a Non-Binary, Genre-Bending Rapper, DJ and Resident MC of Baltimore's Queer Dance Party VERSION. Kotic has been a featured DJ at The John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts and Their Music Video is currently exhibited in The Baltimore Museum Of Art.
Examples of Kotic Couture's work (including works referenced in the episode):
Today I am joined by B Kleymeyer. B is a queer theatre artist working as a director, performer, and deviser. B was named Baltimore’s Best Lead Actor by the Baltimore independent theatre awards in 2019. With Single Carrot Theatre B has directed R. Eric Thomas' Safe Space, Ariel Zetina's Pink Milk, and the upcoming premiere of we broke up, a piece created for a digital audience, written by DJ Hills.
Examples of B's work...
Today I am joined by Niccolo Seligmann. Niccolo is a queer musician, composer, and sound designer who unites historical & traditional musics with contemporary music technology & practices. As a 2020 Strathmore Artist in Residence, Niccolo released their debut album, Kinship, which uses viola da gamba improvisation to enact multispecies resistance to the Anthropocene. [Note: Apologies about the audio quality. This episode wa...
Today I am joined by Nebal Maysaud. They are a Lebanese non-binary composer of music exploring trans-temporal spiritual queerness rooted in their faith, ancestry, and identity. Their music has been performed by the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, Juventas New Music Ensemble, and Lawrence University Wind Ensemble and Opera Department; and also featured in Art Song Lab 2016 and the District New Music Conference 2018; they have contrib...
An interview with unfixed artist Heather Raquel Phillips, They are an unfixed, autonomous person of color living and working in Philadelphia as an interdisciplinary visual artist, educator and independent curator, dedicated to creating equity in the spaces they inhabit. Their work has been written about in Philadelphia Gay News, Hyperallergic, ArtForum.com & Sixty Inches From Center. They recently had their memoir of vignettes ...
An interview Kieran Solley, a LGBTQ artist skilled in portraiture and figure drawing. He received his BFA in Illustration from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2015.
Examples of Kieran's Work (including works referenced in the episode):
Ways to Connect:
Additionally dis...
An interview with lesbian artist Lania D'Agostino, a sculptor, visual artist, and the founder of D’Agostino Studios, which has allowed her to work with a staff of artists creating life casts figures for the museum industry. She has worked with Lucas Films Archives designing and creating mannequins for many exhibits in museums worldwide have. She has transitioned these skills and methods to create life castings of some transgen...
An interview with gay artist Douglas Johnson, he is a painter, playwright, director, and set designer with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. An well-loved figure of the Baltimore arts scene, he has exhibited regularly has written-directed-designed numerous celebrated DIY theatre pieces, including Minotaur, Dark Spell, and his adaptation of Watership Down.
Examples of Douglas's Work...
Today we’re joined by visual artist Jasjyot Singh Hans, Jasjyot Singh Hans is an illustrator unendingly inspired by an explosive neon mix of fashion, music and pop culture. He has a constant regard for things past and a voracity for all that is current. He studied animation film design at the National Institute of Design, India and has an MFA in Illustration Practice from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. His work chron...
Today we’re joined by visual artist Scott G. Brooks, in addition to exhibiting in galleries, he has illustrated several children's books, and his work is frequently featured on the cover of DC LGBT magazine MetroWeekly. In 2019, Scott was one of 25 finalists in the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Art Competition.
Examples of Scott's Work (including paintings referenced in the episode):
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