Cadre, 2019

Stonewall 50, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, April 27, 2019 - July 28, 2019

Adhesive fabric, beads, mirror, canvas, ink, various textiles, marbles, hair extensions, wire, rope, vinyl, acrylic, latex paint, spray paint, graphite powder, pigment, chalk, glitter, brass, foam, T-Pins, thread, sequins, Easter grass, colored pencil, clay, kitchen scrubber, nylon, gold leaf, and jewelry.

CADRE was a sitespecific mural commissioned at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston for Stonewall 50, a show commemorating the Stonewall Riots’ enduring legacy as a vital moment in present day queer liberation. CADRE invokes the politicized underpinnings of collective formation, imagining an alternate family portrait of queer superheroes. The heterogeneity of materials points to the makeshift, improvisational modes harnessed in acts of queer performance and resistance of marginalized queer and trans subjects who conjured glamorous avatar transformations with a surprising economy of materials and means.