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DREADFUL BEAUTY"
An Exhibition of Gothic Art
Presented in coordination with Gothic Pride Seattle
Opens First Thursday, May 2, 5pm-9pm
On display through May 31, 2024
CoCA, 114 Third Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98104
Music by DJ JQ, 6pm-9pm
Dance Performance by Tatiana Garmendia 7pm
Participating Artists:
Braden Duncan
Brian Seldt
Erin Wilson
George Vernon
Hannah Concannon
John Setzer
Kelly Dean Verity
Marisa Cole
Ryan Henry Ward
Samuel Case
Tom Gormally
Tracey Barrow
Sydney Pertl
Troy Gua
Xavier Lopez Jr.
Gothic Pride Seattle display by Bloodengel
Curated by Xavier Lopez Jr.
Image by Hannah Concannon
COCA and GPS are working in association with each other on this Call For Art on this artistic, historical and LGBTQIA+ event!
Gothic Pride Seattle began in 2001 when Lancer Forney brought the Gay community and the Gothic community together. Established as an independent non-profit in 2015, Gothic Pride Seattle today celebrates LGBTQIA+ identity through its programming, highlighted by an annual pageant. As a celebration of its history as well as its diverse forms of contemporary art, Gothic Pride Seattle (GPS) and Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) will present a group exhibition exploring the evolving aesthetic of Gothic identity in a wide variety of media. The Call is open to emerging and established artists working in any media in the Pacific Northwest.
Following the Gothic art exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston in 1997 (curated by Christopher Grunenberg), and Francesca Gavin’s Hell Bound: New Gothic Art (2008) which summarized the movement as “the art of fear,” our curators are interested in how the movement’s visual iconography (neo-punk, hardcore, metal, popular culture, eroticism, body horror, etc.) has changed in the wake of the pandemic and the recent attack on trans rights by conservative politics.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art), 114 3rd Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104-2606, United States,Seattle, Washington
