Red Gallery

This major Midsumma Visual Arts exhibition features photography, painting, drawing and video by nine artists from around Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States whose works focus on female-to-male transitioning. Curated by artist Jesslyn Moss, the exhibition explores new models of masculinity and offers rare insights into the physical and psychological aspects of transgender butch, gender queer and trans-masculine experiences.

'The artists in TransMasculinities re-negotiate their own and their audiences' relationship to identity. There are in these works multiple, shifting and fluid masculinities. The artists and their subjects do not raise claim to essentialist masculinity but rather show openness to representation whereby identity is personal and unique. TransMasculinities invites the viewer to consider gender variance beyond the monolithic models traditionally presented to us'. Lucy Elliot, extract from catalogue essay, 2009.

L. Weingarten (St. Louis USA)
Aiden Simon (Baltimore USA)

Amos Mac (USA)
Gabriel M Thomson (Castlemaine VIC)
melly niotakis (Qld)
Jacqui Brown (Melbourne)
Claire Henry (UK)
Jesslyn Moss (Melbourne)

Rohan Spong (Melbourne)

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january 22 - 6 february, 2010 please join us for opening night drinks, 6-8pm friday 22nd January, 2010
TransMasculinities CURATED BY JESSLYN MOSS This major Midsumma Visual Arts exhibition features photography, painting, drawing and video by nine artists from around Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States whose works focus on female-to-male transitioning. Curated by artist Jesslyn Moss, the exhibition explores new models of masculinity and offers rare insights into the physical and psychological aspects of transgender butch, gender queer and trans-masculine experiences. 'The artists in TransMasculinities re-negotiate their own and their audiences' relationship to identity. There are in these works multiple, shifting and fluid masculinities. The artists and their subjects do not raise claim to essentialist masculinity but rather show openness to representation whereby identity is personal and unique. TransMasculinities invites the viewer to consider gender variance beyond the monolithic models traditionally presented to us'. Lucy Elliot, extract from catalogue essay, 2009. L. Weingarten (St. Louis USA) Aiden Simon (Baltimore USA) Amos Mac (USA) Gabriel M Thomson (Castlemaine VIC) melly niotakis (Qld) Jacqui Brown (Melbourne) Claire Henry (UK) Jesslyn Moss (Melbourne) Rohan Spong (Melbourne)		L. Weingarten, How Does Your Lover Identify?, medium format black and white photographic print, 2009

red gallery hours: wednesday - saturday 11 - 5 pm 157 st georges rd north fitzroy melbourne, victoria, australia (opposite edinburgh gardens) +61 3 9482 3550 mail@redgallery.com.au www.redgallery.com.au