Queer Power: A Time Travelling Coloring Book. SOLD OUT
Based on Ganesh’s QueerPower public art installation for The Leslie Lohman Museum of Art in New York City, this book celebrates the queer and transgender histories of downtown Manhattan and the neighborhoods adjacent to the Museum’s Soho location. Ganesh transports the viewer into the past and beyond, including imagery drawn from researching architectures of 19th-century Black settlements Seneca Village and little Africa, as well as 17th-century Lenape settlements and structures that have since been destroyed or erased, alongside flora and fauna indigenous to NYC.
Includes essays by Erica Cardwell, Jeannine Tang, and Riya Lerner; a complete glossary; and an acknowledgment page. First edition of 1500. 152 pages, 9 x 12 inches, printed by KOPA, Lithuania. Designed by Preston Thompson.
THIS FIRST EDITION IS SOLD OUT. Please email chitraganeshstudio@gmail.com to be notified if we reprint.
Based on Ganesh’s QueerPower public art installation for The Leslie Lohman Museum of Art in New York City, this book celebrates the queer and transgender histories of downtown Manhattan and the neighborhoods adjacent to the Museum’s Soho location. Ganesh transports the viewer into the past and beyond, including imagery drawn from researching architectures of 19th-century Black settlements Seneca Village and little Africa, as well as 17th-century Lenape settlements and structures that have since been destroyed or erased, alongside flora and fauna indigenous to NYC.
Includes essays by Erica Cardwell, Jeannine Tang, and Riya Lerner; a complete glossary; and an acknowledgment page. First edition of 1500. 152 pages, 9 x 12 inches, printed by KOPA, Lithuania. Designed by Preston Thompson.
THIS FIRST EDITION IS SOLD OUT. Please email chitraganeshstudio@gmail.com to be notified if we reprint.
Based on Ganesh’s QueerPower public art installation for The Leslie Lohman Museum of Art in New York City, this book celebrates the queer and transgender histories of downtown Manhattan and the neighborhoods adjacent to the Museum’s Soho location. Ganesh transports the viewer into the past and beyond, including imagery drawn from researching architectures of 19th-century Black settlements Seneca Village and little Africa, as well as 17th-century Lenape settlements and structures that have since been destroyed or erased, alongside flora and fauna indigenous to NYC.
Includes essays by Erica Cardwell, Jeannine Tang, and Riya Lerner; a complete glossary; and an acknowledgment page. First edition of 1500. 152 pages, 9 x 12 inches, printed by KOPA, Lithuania. Designed by Preston Thompson.
THIS FIRST EDITION IS SOLD OUT. Please email chitraganeshstudio@gmail.com to be notified if we reprint.
A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask, 2020
Site-specific QUEERPOWER facade installation at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.
On view through June 1, 2022
★★★★★
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Sam F.