JIBZ CAMERON – DRAWINGS
2021-08-16It is difficult to overstate Cameron’s cultural influence, from impact on avant-garde queer theories and art histories (for example, her inclusion in the epochal Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by late cultural theorist José Esteban Muñoz) to the fabulous DIY awkwardness of hipsters and queers coalescing at Weirdo Night, Cameron’s monthly variety show which has become a staple of the Los Angeles cultural landscape. For Cameron, these multiple worlds (elevated, awkward, arcane, accessible, private, public, film, performance, etc.) are interconnected not by some postmodernist gesture of “democratization” or “interdisciplinarity,” which her work certainly exhibits, but by an acknowledgment that all our lives exist multiply, and from colliding versions of ourselves emerges pathos and humor.
Opposite – Untitled Orgy #3, 202
Exhibition runs through to October 2nd, 2021
Maccarone – Online viewing room
300 South Mission Road
CA 90033
Los Angeles
