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USA-based artist Max Colby

Balaclava.Q Tactic 1: Obscuring the face.

"Colby’s recent work speaks to the production and performance of gender through patriarchal masculinity by responding to 20th century American homosexual pornography. Through series of paintings, embroideries and beadings, images and representations are cloaked in garish and opulent florals. Floral designs censor the image and simultaneously expand its reach. The work is a result of rigorous collection and analysis of material..."

You can explore Colby’s work further by visiting: https://www.maxcolby.com/

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Artist: But I Like It Photography / Johann D'Nale. Model: Tom Hamer

To view the artists gallery on Balaclava-Q please visit here: https://balaclavadotq.com/2016/11/16/artist-johann-dnale/

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Balaclava.Q An international queer visual arts project and collective. Connecting, promoting and creating platforms for queer artists. Established July 4th, 2016 by Stiofan O'Ceallaigh as a reaction to the Pulse nightclub massacre (Orlando, Florida, USA). https://stiofanoceallaigha.wixsite.com/balaclavadotq

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USA-based artist: Carmine Santaniello presents works which explore Balaclava-Q TACTIC 1: Obscuring the face.

New York-based artist Carmine Santaniello has exhibited nationally and internationally, with work appearing in numerous publications in the US and Europe. The Art of Man magazine USA, Mascular magazine UK, Boner magazine Germany and Character magazine France to name a few. His art is in the private collection of Charles Leslie as well as the permanent collection of the Leslie Lohman Museum. In addition, he shows with Mooi-Man Gay Male Art Gallery, The Netherlands, and the Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, and has been featured in Your Daily Male, Mooi-Man Gay Male Art Gallery’s annual calendar.

You can explore Santaniello’s works further by visiting: http://carminesantaniellofineart.blogspot.co.uk/ https://www.instagram.com/carmine1955/

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Turkey (Instanbul) - based artist Serpil Yildiz presents fibre-art project NAKED (2016-current) on Balaclava-Q Tactic 2: Abstract Activism (which shows work which reinforces that they very act of been a visible queer IS a form of activism in its own right. In these works Yildiz provokes discussion around gender politics by adding penis' to everyday objects.

You can explore this artists’ works further by visiting the following platforms: Web site: https://www.serpilyildiz.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_serpil.yildiz_/

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Poland-based photographer Piotr Kuszyński states: “the subject of my work is interlacing to forces in our life: force of life versus force of death (Eros versus Thanatos in psychoanalytic nomenclature). I am interested how this forces create our life, choices, moods. etc. how they interweave creating ourselves.I am also interested in gender issues, what is masculinity? what is femininity? and how some of us are excluded from “normal” society if we do not fit.  Are we condemned to be outsider.” (2018)

You can explore Kuszyński’s work further by visiting: https://www.instagram.com/pr.qski/

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>>>INSPIRATION<<< Artist: Ana Vesnik

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Canada-based artist: Andrew Mcphail

McPhail adheres to Balaclava-Q TACTIC ONE: OBSCURING THE FACE, by completely denying it, thus accessing self-placement/empathy for the viewer/participant.

Andrew McPhail is a Canadian visual artist. He was born in Calgary Alberta in 1961 and studied at York University where he received his MFA in 1987. Living in Toronto in the 1980’s and 90’s his work focused primarily on drawing, often with pencil crayon on a polyester film called ‘mylar’. After moving to Hamilton in 2005, his interest shifted towards three dimensional work and performance. In his accumulative, craft oriented practice he uses ephemeral disposable materials such as band aids, Kleenex and post-its to create epic, monumental sculptures and installations and performances . He has exhibited nationally and internationally and in 2013 was the recipient of the Canada Council International Studio in Paris. He is also co-founder, with Stephen Altena, of the Hundred Dollar Gallery and a founding member of The Assembly in Hamilton, Ontario.

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JULIAN RICHARD EVANS is  @rgphotography1970​

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US-based artist Boston Elements joins team Starrfucker Magazine for the AIDS/Lifecycle. All proceeds will go towards the fundraising goal to fight HIV through the Aids LifeCycle!

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USA-based artist Zachary Z. Handler

Handler states: "Over the past seventeen years, Zachary Z. Handler’s career as a photographer of dance and performance has afforded him the opportunity to work with Naoko Maeshiba/Kibism, PearsonWidrig Dance Theatre, Heart Strück Bernie, and Orange Grove Dance, among many others. In addition to his work as a professional photographer, Handler has also streamlined a career in both the fields of health care and art education. Working with such arts organizations as the Museum of Modern Art, Quest Visual Theatre, and the Creative Alliance, he has provided community and access programs to individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind. Handler has taught arts education classes, across the country and overseas, to deaf and hard of hearing youth in foster care.

Zachary Z. Handler received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2003 and a Masters in Arts Administration from Columbia University Teachers College in 2005. Currently residing in Baltimore with his family, Handler serves as the Deaf Services Program Manager for the Baltimore Medical System, Inc. Always on the lookout for creative, collaborative opportunities in any of his professional realms, he also enjoys the appropriation of found objects, the company of 1970s cinema, and the color pink." (2018)

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UK-based artist: Jason Carr

Jason Carr is a New Zealand born artist who has lived in the UK for 20 years with his practice based between Manchester and London.

He is a figurative and portrait artist who's themes circulate around the light and dark of life. ​ ​'Through my work I strive to challenge myself and push my own boundaries while retaining honesty and rawness through the narrative. Expression through paint is therapy and gives me the freedom to tell mine and others stories in the hope people will relate and not feel alone. My favourite part of the process is listening to the viewers interpretation of these stories as they help me see things in my work that may have been buried in my subconscious.' ​ ​Jason has exhibited in London, Manchester and New Zealand.

He was chosen as a finalist for the Griffin Art Award 2015/won the GFest/Magnum Visual Artist Award 2017 and won the Lady Petchey Award as a finalist for the Emerald Winter Pride Art Award 2018. Pre selected for Royal Society of portrait Painters Annual Award 2018.

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USA-based artist Richard Vyse.

Internationally collected artist Richard Vyse has shown in galleries in Manhattan and Honolulu. He has studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and taught at Pratt in Brooklyn. His art has been featured in many international art and gay art magazines. The Art of Man, Mascular magazine UK, Jack the Lad UK, Character magazine and Noisy Rain to name a few. His art is in the Leslie Lohman museum collection and will be showing at the LLM Project Space in February 2019.

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UK-based artist Jonathon Beaver explores Balaclava-Q TACTIC 3: ABSTRACT ACTIVISM and presents a series of fibre art works. Fibre art is really on trend at the moment, none more so than in queer art circles where fibre art and the traditional gender roles are emancipated and fluxed by the act of craft itself and the personal gender preference manifested by the artist: the butch dyke and the femme fag flipping gender stereotypes simply by the art of craft. This is reflected in current submissions to Balaclava.Q.

Beaver appropriates screen-grabs, personal portraits and with a traditionally femme craft tackles masculinity via experiences (lived or heard) from dating apps and cruising sites. The simplicity and accessibility of Beavers's work can be both thought-provoking, comical and beautiful.

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Image credit: artist Nikos Stamatopoulos. You can explore more of Niko’s gallery here: https://balaclavadotq.com/2016/12/03/artist-nikos-stamatopoulos/

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We are delighted to present the first Balaclava-Q contributing artist representing Russia (Moscow): Haus of Tina cleverly references queer club culture and in this gallery the Haus of Tina presentS a series of looks and fashion. Creative Tina Abramian generously offers an insight into their process and development, right through to the finished garment/look. An evolution of the club-kid, consistently referencing club-kulture.