ARTS:
OTHER VISUAL ARTS (including photography)/
D’AUTRES ARTS VISUELS (y compris la photographie)
SEE ALSO the VIDEOS/FILMS section of this list.
100 Years of Homosexuality.
Stéphane Beauchamp et al.; curator: Doug Townsend; essays: Hamish Buchanan,
Josephine Mills. Saskatoon,
(42 p.; ISBN 0969150415)
Adelman, Shonagh,
1961-
Girrly Pictures. Toronto:
Mercer Union, [1994].
(35 p.; ISBN 0921527209)
“Catalog
of a series of five exhibitions held at Mercer Union, Toronto,
Mar. 10
– Dec. 22, 1994” –Toronto Public Library catalogue note.
Adelman, Shonagh,
1961-
Skindeep. Writers: Becki Ross, Liz Kotz, Andrew Payne;
curator: Annette Hurtig.
Toronto: A Space, 1994.
(ISBN 0969506848)
“Catalogue
of an exhibition held Jan. 8 –
<Toronto” --
Toronto Public Library catalogue note.
Beauchamp, Stéphane.
SEE entry at 100 Years of
Homosexuality, in this section (filed above, preceding
the A’s).
Boys with Needles: David Grenier, Neil MacInnis, Thomas Roach, Patrick Traer.
London,
(15 p.; ISBN 1895800838)
“Catalogue of an
exhibition held 29 June –
London
and 5 March –
Essays by Anna-Marie Larsen and Robin Metcalfe.
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue no. 28941574, which applies, among others,
the descriptor Gay
artists –
Brand, Dionne, et al.
Sight Specific: Lesbians
& Representation. Toronto: A Space, c1988.
(55 p.; ISBN 0969064586)
A Space
is an art gallery.
Bruhm, Steven.
QC Queer Commodity: Dyke Action Machine!, Mike Hickey, Johannes Zits.
Essays by Steven Bruhm & Spencer
Ramsay.
(16 p.; ISBN 1894518071)
“Catalogue
of an exhibition held at the
Art Gallery,
7 March –
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 26018301, the descriptors in
which include Homosexualtiy in art and Lesbians in art.
Carnie, Morag, comp.
Posters in the Canadian Gay Archives: An Inventory.
Toronto: Canadian Gay Archives, c1990.
(ca. 294 p.)
Chamberland, Line,
1950-
Mythes et réalités des cultures gaies et
lesbiennes: exposition historique et
culturelle. Volet historique, Line Chamberland, Daniel
Turcotte. Montréal:
Maison
de la culture Marie-Uguay, 1997.
(62 p.)
“Du
11 septembre au 26 octobre 1997, Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay”
–catalogue note
“Channelling Gay Pride: Despite One Cable Boss’s Predictions of a Conservative
Backlash, A New Gay-Themed TV Channel Is Determined To Be Noticed.”
Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],
Chapman, David L., 1948-
Comin’ at Ya!: The Homoerotic 3-D Photographs of Denny Denfield.
Introduction, David L. Chapman; foreword, Thomas Waugh.
Vancouver,
(207 p.; ISBN 9781551522258)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33529870.
Denfield (1918-1992) was an American photographer. Included
here because of Thomas Waugh’s narrative and Canadian publisher.
“Comic Strip Was a Tale of Pride: Lawrence Comes Out, ‘For Better or For Worse’.”
Toronto Star,
Canadian comic strip appearing also in US papers; Lynn Johnston.
Lawrence: teenaged boy,
gay.
“Contre nature.” Maison de la culture Frontenac, Montréal.
SEE art review reference at entry Whitelaw,
Anne, in this section.
Drawing the Line.
SEE
entry at Stewart, Susan, in this section.
Eye on the Guy
SEE full entry under title in VIDEOS section for this documentary film
about
Alan B. Stone and Montreal
physique photography.
Folland, Tom.
Stigma:
Gay Politics, Gay Aesthetics? Toronto: Mercer Union,
1989.
(8 p.)
“This
essay was commissioned by the artists to be published in conjunction
with the exhibition ‘Homogenius’ held at Mercer Union [Toronto] from
June 22 to July 22, 1989” – from back page, as quoted in Toronto Public
Library catalogue.
Forbidden Subjects:
Self-Portraits by Lesbian Artists.
SEE
entry at Kelley, Caffyn, ed., in this section.
Franson, Leanne.
Liliane, Bi-Dyke.
Series of mini-comics said to have been running since 1992 (Dutch website:
http://lambiek.net/artists/f/franson_leanne.htm , viewed Aug. 1/08).
That site also notes that the works are “autobiographical, centering on
Liliane, a Canadian ‘bi-dyke’”, and mentions that there are two available
collections, “Assume Nothing,” and “Teaching through Trauma.”
User might
contact
forty-one items purchased in 2008 for its Special Collections Department,
according to communication from N. Richards.
Gender Currents.
SEE Videos section of list for details of this exhibition item.
General Idea.
The
AIDS Project. Toronto: Gershon Iskowitz Foundation, 1989.
(15 p.;
ISBN 096940090X)
Gilbert, Sylvie, ed.
Arousing Sensation: A Case Study of Controversy surrounding Art and the Erotic.
Banff, Alta.: Banff Centre Press, c1999.
(ca. 145 p.; ISBN 0920159826)
Based on exhibition “Much Sense: Erotics and Life” at Walter Phillips
Gallery, 1992. Seems that deals broadly with erotic art.
Graham, Jim.
Pressing: Reading the Signs [S.l.: s.n., 1989].
1 sheet (4 p.), folded.
“Exhibition
catalogue from AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, of
gay artist
Dik (Duncan) Campbell [
for Sexual
Diversity,” accessed
record no. 27441491.
Grenier, David R.
“Homo Sweet Homo, A Play of Spaces.” MFA thesis,
(48 p.)
“The
written component of my current artistic practice….The corporeality
of
homosexual experience and desire is read through traditional notions of
the home….My focus…is on the inherent complexities within spatial
discourse and on how I seek
out, appropriate, and remake spaces as
habitable-queer” – abstract from Canadian Research Index.
Griffiths,
Jamie, et al.
Fusion. Vancouver, B.C. : Lynk Productions,
c2002.
(unpaged, with 1 CD-ROM; ISBN 0973034009)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue no. 27863907, which carries descriptors
Homosexuality in art; Lesbianism in art; Photography, Erotic; and
Photography of the nude.
Grubisic, Brett J., and Young, Brian.
“Fear
and Loathing on the Prairie.” Fuse
Magazine 17(3) (Spring 1994): 9-10.
named:
Christopher A. Lefler and Sylvia Fedoruk.
See also entry at Russell, Jim, in this section, for another article
about
Lefler case.
Related
[?] ref.: Maureen Bradley, Tainted: Christopher Lefler and
the Queer Censorship Chill (“28-min. artist’s tape”), listed in
“Saskatchewan Bibliography,” on SRSD Website (viewed Feb. 25, 2009).
Herrmann, Matthias, 1963-
Hotel, Diary. Toronto: Art Metropole, 2003.
([124] p.; ISBN 092095670X)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 28841355, the descriptors of which
refer to homosexuality
in art and also include Artists’ books –
“Homogenius.” Art exhibition at Mercer Union, Toronto, June 22 to
SEE ALSO entry at Folland, Tom, in this section.
In This World: Robert Flack, Lyle Ashton Harris, Denis Lessard.
Curator, Keith Wallace. Vancouver:
(29 p.)
Catalogue of
exhibition at the gallery, April 17-
One of descriptors in AMICUS catalogue record concerns
male homosexuality in
art.
Kelley, Caffyn, ed.
Forbidden Subjects:
Self-Portraits by Lesbian Artists. North Vancouver, B.C.:
Gallerie Publications, c1992.
(96 p.; ISBN 1895640016)
Kiss & Tell (Group
of artists).
Her Tongue on My Theory:
Images, Essays and Fantasies. Vancouver: Press Gang
Publishers, 1994.
(112 p.; ISBN 0889740585)
Kiss
& Tell is Persimmon Blackbridge, Lizard Jones, and Susan Stewart.
Review: Canadian
Journal of Women & the Law 7(2) (1994): 593-600.
Lee, Robert
W. G.
“Fabrications.” Parachute 84 (oct.-déc. 1996): 65-66.
“Les
thèmes de l’identité sexuelle et de l’homosexualité dans les oeuvres
des
artistes américaines et canadiens Catherine Opie, David Rasmus et
Hamish Buchanan, présentés lors de
l’exposition collective, ‘Fabrication,’
tenue à Montréal au printemps 1996”
– Repère résumé.
Liss, David, et al.
Kent
Monkman: Triumph of Mischief. [
Victoria, 2008.
(200
p.; 100 col. ill.; ISBN 978-0-88885-354-7)
Ref.: Title is as presented at abcartbookscanada.com Web site,
at which it is noted also that the work contains “five original essays” and
“accompanies a
national tour.”Site viewed
Monkman is identified at Web site as a Cree artist. A book signing in
<Toronto was announced in Xtra! [Toronto],
Logue, Deirdre, 1964-
Queering Plunder. Regina,
(ISBN 9781894882224)
Ref.: AMICUS prepublication catalogue record no. 33935654, which
notes: “Catalogue of an
exhibition held at the
the descriptors Homosexuality in art – Exhibitions and Video art –
Madill, Kevin.
Queer Landscape. Vancouver, B.C.: Artspeak Gallery, 1991.
(16 p.; ISBN 092139411X)
Curator:
Cate Rimmer.
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 11308081
“Madill’s work addresses the construction of identity around the
unstable binarism of homo/heterosexual. [This catalogue] [f]eatures
a critical essay by Scott Watson” – from Artspeak website,
www.artspeak.bc.ca/publications.htm
, accessed
McIntosh, David.
“Second Decade: AIDS + Community
+ Television.” C Magazine [Toronto] 39
(Fall 1993): 13-18.
“Second
Decade” is a collective of video artists and AIDS activists.
Metcalfe, Robin.
SEE entry at Queer Looking,
Queer Acting, in this section.
Michèle Drouin: ouverture-fermeture =
Michèle Drouin: opening-enclosing.
Texte,
Claire Gravel ; photographie, Jean-Pierre Beaudin et al.
Québec: Galerie Madeleine Lacerte, [1996?]
(47 p.; ISBN 2921585219)
Catalogue of
traveling exhibition held in
Galerie Waddington & Gorce, Montreal (March 9 to March 30, 1996)
and at Galerie Madeleine Lacerte (April 19 to May 12, 1996).
Text in English and French. AMICUS catalogue lists under descriptor
“Lesbian erotic art –
Murray, Carla.
“The Red
Plague Rid You for Learning Me Your Language.”
MFA thesis,
(53 p.)
“’Support
paper’ to accompany author’s thesis exhibition, ‘Queer
(Be)Longings,’
at
on ideas from her earlier installation, ‘Not
All of Me,’ from the group show
‘Sex and
Identity’ ” – abstract from Canadian Research Index.
Murray, Karl-Gilbert, 1969-
Le corps gay = The Gay Body. Texte: Karl-Gilbert Murray; artistes: Claude
Bibeau
et al. Saint-Jérôme, QC : Centre
d’exposition du Vieux-Palais, 2002?
(ca. 59 p.; ISBN 2922477010)
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue no. 28008077, which notes that this is a
“[c]atalogue réalisé à l’occasion d’une
exposition présentée du
8 septembre au 3 novembre 2002 ” and that text is in French and English.
100 Years of Homosexuality.
SEE reference filed in this section preceding the A’s
Philips, Elizabeth.
“Evergon but Not Forgotten.” NeWest Review 15(5) (June/July 1990):
5-6.
Controversy
over Evergon Exhibition, held late in 1989 at Mendel Art
Gallery
in Saskatoon,
“Photo Collection Part
of Quebec’s Gay History.” Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],
The Pottery of Mathieu: suite serpentin.
With an essay by Bruce Hugh Russell. [Burlington, Ont.]: Burlington Art
Centre, 1998.
(15 p.; ISBN 0919752578)
Catalogue
of an exhibition held August 9 to
at
Burlington Art
Centre, Burlington,
31,
1998 at the Stride Gallery,
Exhibition of Paul Mathieu, sculptor.
Other title: Suite serpentin.
Ref.: OCLC catalog record accession no. 42198376 applies
descriptor “Homosexuality in art”
PrideVision TV.
This
is the Web site, as of
PrideVision TV, describing itself as “the world’s first Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) television network to broadcast 24/7.”
Its programming “is designed to provide news, information and
entertainment on issues of interest to the gay community.” According to
the Web site, it is a subsidiary of Headline Media Group Inc. of Toronto
and was licensed by the Canadian Radio-Television and
Telecommunications
Commission on
compilation, there was media commentary about possible
discontinuation.
([20] p.)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue no. 29824763, which notes that this was a
series exhibition held
Queer Looking, Queer Acting: Lesbian and Gay
Vernacular.
Robin Metcalfe, guest
curator. Halifax,
Gallery, 1997.
(ISBN 1895215765)
“Catalog
of an exhibition held…11 Oct. –
Library
catalogue note.
Ramboys: A Bookless
Novel and Other Stories.
Text: Jean-François Renaud et al. Ottawa, Ont.: Galerie d’art d’Ottawa, 1995.
(153 p.;
ISBN 1895108209)
“Catalogue
d’une exposition tenue à la Galerie d’art d’Ottawa du 4 mai
au 18 juin 1995;” At head of title: Egon Brut, Cellulose Evergoni, Eve R.
Gonzales – from Bibliothèque nationale
du Québec catalogue, which gives
subject heading “Homosexualité dans l’art – Expositions” to this work.
Ray, Gypsy.
Living with AIDS:
Collaborative Portraits.
North Vancouver, B.C.: Gallerie Publications,
1992.
Rooney,
“Interview: Persimmon.” Resources for Feminist Research 13(4)
(Dec. 1984/
Jan. 1985): 30-32.
Artist
who has produced erotic lesbian works.
Russell, Jim.
“A Gaze Blank and Pitiless as the
Sun.” Fuse Magazine 18(2) (1994):
7-12.
Concerns Christopher Lefler art censorship case at the University of
Related
[?] ref.: Maureen Bradley, Tainted: Christopher Lefler and
the Queer Censorship Chill (“28-min. artist’s tape”), listed in
“Saskatchewan Bibliography,” on SRSD Website (viewed Feb. 25, 2009).
Rutherford, Erica.
Nine Lives: The Autobiography
of Erica Rutherford.
(243 p.; ISBN 0921556365)
Biography
of transsexual painter from
Short Stories: Marcel Dzama, Sara
Hartland-Rowe, Landon MacKenzie,
Medrie MacPhee, Jennie White. Curator, James Patten; guest writers: Shawna
Dempsey and Lorri Millan; organized
by the
(71 p.: ISBN 0889152187)
Ref.: N. Richards communication.
AMICUS catalogue record no. 27455614, gives Art, Canadian
and Art, Modern as descriptors. Record notes that this is a
“[c]atalogue
of an exhibition held at the
Sight Specific.
SEE entry at Brand, Dionne, in
this section.
Stewart, Susan.
Drawing the Line: Lesbian
Sexual Politics on the Wall.
Photography by Susan
Stewart in collaboration with
Persimmon Blackbridge and Lizard Jones.
Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1991.
(ISBN 0889740305)
Review:
Cynthia Wright, Quill & Quire 57(10) (Oct. 1991): 31.
Tom of
Kake
in
(31 p.)
Ref.: OCLC catalog record, accession no. 44565569,
in
which descriptors “Gay men –
strips, etc.” and “Royal Canadian Mounted Police –
Comic
books, strips, etc.” are assigned.
Torres, J., 1969-
Safety Dance. Story by J. Torres; art by Steve Rolston.
(ca. 130 p.; ISBN 9781551683034 and 1551683032)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33267756, which gives,
among various descriptors, Gays – Identity – Comic books, strips, etc.
and Teenagers – Comic books, strips, etc.
Townsend, Doug.
SEE entry at 100 Years of
Homosexuality, in this section (filed preceding the A’s).
Treleaven, Scott, 1972-
The Salivation Army Black Book (1996-2006).
Text & collages by Scott Treleaven; preface by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.
Toronto: Art Metropole, 2006.
(343
p.; ISBN 089439021X)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 32117918, which notes that
“[m]aterial originally published in v. I-IX of Scott Treleaven’s
‘zine, This is the Salivation Army, 1996-1999.” Notes also limited
edition of 666 copies. Descriptors applied: Gay culture, Punk
culture, Homosexuality in art.
Vellekoop,
Maurice, 1964-
Artist
and Models. Toronto: Pas de Chance,
2000.
([16] leaves).
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 29053800, which assigns
descriptors
Artists’ books –
Vellekoop, Maurice, 1964-
Big Business. Toronto: Pas de Chance, 2000.
([18] leaves).
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 29053804, which assigns
descriptors Artists’
books –
Vellekoop, Maurice.
Maurice Vellekoop’s Pin-ups. [S.l.]: Green Candy Press, [2008?].
Ref.: Stephen Slessor review, Xtra! [Toronto], Nov. 20, 2008, p. 35,
which includes Vellekoop comments and several color illustrations
from the book. Vellekoop apparently lives in Toronto [?].
There are additional works under this author in AMICUS catalogue.
“Vermeer, Queered.” University Affairs 42(5) (May 2001): 8.
Concerns a Julie Duschenes art exhibit titled “Stories That Own Me,”
held at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery. Information
extracted from the Internet on March 21, 2002 mentioned that an
exhibition catalogue was in press.
Vespry, Anne.
“Issues of Body Image in Lesbian
(and Feminist) Comics.” Matriart: A
Canadian
Feminist Art Journal 3(3)
(1993): 30-32.
Vocat, Daryl.
“A Boy’s Will.”
(10 screen prints and a sealed letter; limited edition)
Refs.: N. Richards communication ; artist’s home page, viewed
Work purchased for
Vocat, Daryl.
“Pact for Adventure.”
(12 screen prints in folio; limited edition)
Refs.: N. Richards communication; artist’s home page, viewed
continues his exploration of childhood, morality and social
dynamics….These serial images chronicle a boys [sic] world full of
defiance, confrontation, intimacy, and mystery.”
Work purchased for
Wallace, Keith.
In This World: Robert Flack, Lyle Ashton Harris, Denis Lessard.
Curator, Keith Wallace. Vancouver,
(29 p.; AMICUS catalogue no. 11605191)
“Catalogue of an
exhibition held at the Gallery, Apr. 17-
AMICUS catalogue note.
Library catalogue record assigns Male homosexuality in art – Exhibitions
as one descriptor.
Waugh, Thomas.
“‘Effigies de nos Adonis en quête
d’immortalité’: la photographie homoérotique
à
Montréal 1950-1965.” In Sortir de
l’ombre, pp. 53-80. Sous la
direction
de Frank Remiggi et Irène Demczuk. Montréal: VLB, 1998.
This chapter reference is given as presented in Waugh’s The Fruit
Machine, for citation of which see this bibliographic supplement in
ARTS – CINEMA section. Sortir de l’ombre, as a collection,
receives
separate entry in this bibliography under title in the HISTORY section
of the main volume.
Waugh, Thomas, 1948-
Out / lines: Underground Gay Graphics from before Stonewall. Compiled and
with an introduction by Thomas Waugh. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, c2002.
(296 p.; ISBN 1551521237)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue no. 27471778.
Apparently broader than geographical scope of this list;
author
at
Whitelaw,
Anne.
“‘Contre
nature’.” Parachute 66
(avril-juin 1992): 41.
“Critique
de cette exposition d’oeuvres d’artistes homosexuels, tenue à
la Maison de la culture
Frontenac, à Montréal, à l’automne 1991” –Repère
résumé.
Young, Ian, 1945-
Out in Paperback: A Visual History of Gay Pulps. Toronto: LMB Editions, 2007.
(ISBN 9780978176518)
Ref.: AMICUS prepublication catalogue record no. 33442113, as of
Compiler does not know scope of this work, but it is listed because of
prominence of this Canadian author, particularly in early Canadian gay
publication endeavours (e.g., Catalyst Press, in the 1970s). Descriptors
applied to record
include Book covers –
American, and also, more generally, Homosexuality in art and
Homosexuality in literature.