The Engagement: America s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage
Pride Month is a celebration especially this year, after 2020 cancelling so many celebrations around the country but it s also a reminder of the struggle for basic rights for queer people. And while the Stonewall uprising of June 1969 has made the month a center of attention for LGBTQ equality, that struggle has continued in the 50 years since to include a wide range of issues, up to and including the current assault on transgender rights at the state level.
One of the crucial battlegrounds in that struggle was the fight for marriage equality, one that culminated in the 2015
Findings @ A Gallery
There can be a challenge in finding an accessible entry point to some visual art works for a layperson, but in the new work by Linnie Brown on display in the solo exhibition
Findings at A Gallery (1321 S. 2100 East, agalleryonline.com), representation and abstraction find a fascinating architectural conjunction. These acrylic-on-panel pieces often feature bold swaths of color and hard lines that feel peculiar and alienating, until you take a closer look. In Here and There (pictured), there s a multi-dimensional perspective that makes it seem as though you re peering through windows on an atrium roof; the geometric forms in Inventory of Linked Places begin to resemble a row of apartment buildings, with the windows jutting off at strange angles.