Chris Cinque will be having an artist talk for her newest exhibition, KinShip, at Form+Content gallery. All are welcome!
Artist Talk: Sunday, September 14th, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Location:
Form + Content Gallery
Whitney Square Building
210 North 2nd St, Suite 104
Minneapolis, MN 55401
KinShip features life-sized drawings of friends from Chris’s Lesbian/Queer community. The original intention behind these drawings was (and continues to be!) to celebrate Chris’s friends and Queer family. These fraught times in which we find ourselves, however, where white christians attempt to erase all but those who fit their worldview makes this body of work an important part of resisting the narrowness and cruelty of the far-right agenda. Most importantly, this work showcases people who matter both to Chris and to our larger communities. Each drawing includes two aspects of the featured subject: a fully realized charcoal drawing surrounded by a colorful collage, as well as a simple red conte crayon line drawing.
This exhibit also includes abstract ceramics by Sharon Jaffe, a radical lesbian feminist Jewish activist intent on replacing the white supremacist, patriarchal, imperialist empire (to paraphrase bell hooks) with lots of art, good food, organizing for collective liberation, and multiple intergenerational friendships.
Exhibition Dates:
Thursday, August 28 through October 4, 2025
Free and open to the public
About the Artist:
Given the fact that my life was upended by trauma at an early age, the phrase “art saves lives”is literally true for me. Working as an artist has always been my salvation and my solace.
My task has been to create order in a disordered and disoriented life. I did this first for manyyears in theater as a playwright, performer, and director, and for almost as long a time now as a
visual artist.
My work continues to be about finding connections: to the muddled and mysterious past, to the dynamics of the present moment, and to the hope that lives in the future. Storytelling, whether it be through line and color or actual words, embodies that desire: to connect to myself so that I may also connect to others. This always happens by turning towards the light that lives in all of us. For me, that means practicing the art of manipulating color and form to tell stories that are full of emotional content, but which lie just beyond the reach of words.
Gallery Hours:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 12:00 – 6:00 pm and by appointment
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