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Queer Latinx Artists and the Human Body
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Queer Latinx Artists and the Human Body

A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 8831

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ray Hernández-Durán

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Department of Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Interests: Latin America; Mexico; U.S. Southwest; art; religion; politics; museum studies.
Dr. Cristina Cruz González

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College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Art, Graphic Design, and Art History, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
Interests: Latin America; Mexico; U.S. Southwest; art; religion; politics; museum studies

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the past decade, we have witnessed increased interest in art produced by U.S. Latino/a/x artists. Exhibitions featuring Latinx art, new journals focused on Latinx art history and art criticism, and new academic and museum positions targeting Latinx specialists suggest that this major segment of the U.S. American population is finally receiving the attention it deserves.

One challenge in the nascent field of Latinx Art History has been how to adequately address the cultural production of an incredibly diverse community. Within this developing discourse, work by queer Latinx artists has experienced increased visibility in exhibitions that include or spotlight queer artists. Thus, two leading questions emerge: how are themes seen in broader Latinx art production, such as migration, indigeneity, gender roles, colonialism, religion, and beauty conventions, inflected by the queer Latinx experience? Additionally, how are issues prominent in mainstream LGBTQ+ art, such as HIV/AIDS, sex, censorship, community, relationships, family, and transgender issues, experienced and approached from a Latinx perspective?

For this Special Issue of Arts on Studies in Art History, we seek submissions that address how queer Latinx artists have theorized, utilized, deployed, and/or reclaimed the human body in their work. Submissions might focus on a specific medium or genre, the work of a specific artist or group of artists, or on a broader theme related to the use of the body in queer Latinx art.

Dr. Ray Hernández-Durán
Dr. Cristina Cruz González
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • U.S.
  • Latinx
  • LGBTQ
  • queer
  • art
  • politics
  • body
  • exhibitions

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Queer Latinx Bodies and AIDS: Joey Terrill’s “Still Here” and “Once Upon A Time”
by Alexis Salas
Arts 2024, 13(4), 133; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13040133 - 9 Aug 2024
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Through two interviews conducted two years apart, the author and artist Joey Terrill offer an intimate historical trajectory rooted in the singular voice of the artist through the discussion of artworks in the exhibitions “Joey Terrill: Still Here” and “Joey Terrill: Once Upon [...] Read more.
Through two interviews conducted two years apart, the author and artist Joey Terrill offer an intimate historical trajectory rooted in the singular voice of the artist through the discussion of artworks in the exhibitions “Joey Terrill: Still Here” and “Joey Terrill: Once Upon A Time: Paintings, 1981–2015”. The method of storytelling, interview, and art representation chronicles the artist’s emotional, intellectual, and embodied experience of illness, queerness, and resistance as an HIV-positive queer Chicano. Full article
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Queer Nightlife and Contemporary Art Networks: A Study of Artists at the Bar
by Joseph Daniel Valencia
Arts 2024, 13(2), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13020072 - 10 Apr 2024
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This article positions queer nightlife as a central vehicle in the lives and practices of queer Latinx artists working in Los Angeles over the past decade. It highlights how queer nightlife has provided a generative space for art making and community building in [...] Read more.
This article positions queer nightlife as a central vehicle in the lives and practices of queer Latinx artists working in Los Angeles over the past decade. It highlights how queer nightlife has provided a generative space for art making and community building in LA and considers how the usage of queer nightlife as a frame of study ruptures existing art historical and curatorial methodologies relative to Latinx art. I closely analyze works by artists rafa esparza, Sebastian Hernandez, and Gabriela Ruiz drawn from the gay bars and streets of downtown and East Los Angeles to underscore the radical and sophisticated ways by which these artists create art, community, and opportunity. By critically examining three case studies—Escandalos Angeles (2018), a performance by Hernandez and Ruiz at Club Chico in Montebello, California; Nostra Fiesta (2019), a storefront mural by esparza, Ruiz, and friends at the New Jalisco Bar in downtown; and YOU (2019–ongoing), a queer party directed by Hernandez and launched at La Cita Bar in downtown—I reveal how queer nightlife has served as an incubator for these artists to come together, express themselves, and generate a sense of joy and freedom from the struggles of everyday life. Full article
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Bridging the Vantage Point of Distance: Reynaldo Rivera and the Visual Legacies of Queer Spectacle across Time and Space
by Estefanía Vélez
Arts 2024, 13(2), 54; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13020054 - 12 Mar 2024
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Gender impersonators and trans gender-nonconforming people have long been a source of fascination within the visual arts. Nevertheless, illustrators and photographers alike have perpetually instrumentalized the image of the queer subject as a visual shorthand for criminality, freakishness, and deception. Beginning with the [...] Read more.
Gender impersonators and trans gender-nonconforming people have long been a source of fascination within the visual arts. Nevertheless, illustrators and photographers alike have perpetually instrumentalized the image of the queer subject as a visual shorthand for criminality, freakishness, and deception. Beginning with the broadside illustrations of José Guadalupe Posada, this article examines how visual representations of Latinx queerness and gender nonconformity shifted across the Americas and throughout the late nineteenth century into the late twentieth century. Ultimately, I contend that Reynaldo Rivera’s photography of late-twentieth-century ballroom culture provides a substantial departure from these speculatory conventions by visually legitimizing the lived authenticity of the queer Latinx people who populate his work. Full article
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“Lo que se ve, no se pregunta”: Creating Queer Space in the Work of José Villalobos
by Alana J. Coates
Arts 2023, 12(6), 221; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12060221 - 26 Oct 2023
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This article examines the work of multidisciplinary artist José Villalobos through a queer Latinx lens using the theory of “disidentification” as put forth by José Esteban Muñoz and argues that Villalobos makes space for queer visibility and representation within Tejano norteño culture by [...] Read more.
This article examines the work of multidisciplinary artist José Villalobos through a queer Latinx lens using the theory of “disidentification” as put forth by José Esteban Muñoz and argues that Villalobos makes space for queer visibility and representation within Tejano norteño culture by subverting culturally specific objects that often perpetuate, sometimes violently, traditional Mexican and Mexican-American gender norms. By critically analyzing two artworks, Soledad (loneliness) (2022), a mixed-media triptych that takes the form of an ex-voto, and a performance, A Las Escondidas (Hide-and-Seek) (2019), this study demonstrates how Villalobos challenges gender-normative thinking in border culture through his artworks by incorporating the body and its adornments. Villalobos utilizes his body in his performances and the implied body in his installations and assemblages to critique and subvert homophobia. By doing so, he grafts queer identity onto norteño iconography to carve out space for representation and inclusion for himself and other members of the queer community. Full article
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