Queer Relations

Getsy, David J.

doi:10.1353/asa.2017.0041

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“…He synthesizes media unfixing a stable transference in photorealist painting and, in turn, invites a gaze that reads racialized transgender appearance backwards. In this way, the image of Celine Walker seconds David Getsy’s (2017: 256) claim thatqueer existence is always wrapped up in an attention to form, whether in the survival tactic of shaping oneself to the camouflage of the normal, the defiant assembling of new patterns of lineage and succession, or the picturing of new configurations of desire, bodies, sex and sodality.…”

Section: Gray Skins Pink Masksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pretty in pink: David Antonio Cruz’s portrait of the florida girls

Hernández¹

2020

Journal of Visual Culture

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Roused by the deaths of five African American transgender women in Florida in 2018, artist David Antonio Cruz intervenes in inaccurate media reports about these murders. Painting portrait of the florida girls in 2019, his diptych of significant scale and palette, confronts this senseless violence and challenges sensationalized coverage. This article centralizes his work arguing for the ways in which Cruz innovates transgender of color visibility through a queer of color critiquing of the portrait form and concerted use of a ‘blacktino’ optic. Ruminating on the combined tragedies of gun violence at Pulse nightclub and serial murder of trans femmes, Cruz’s work interrogates the posthumous transgender image with a reversal of digital source material and bodily logics in pose and countenance. By turning to the transnational crossroads shaping these communities’ shared horrors, central Florida, Cruz activates his audience with a sense of urgency in the persuasive power of pink.

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Section: Gray Skins Pink Masksmentioning

confidence: 99%