Dreaming of Home

Painters Christina Quarles and Jenna Gribbon join curator and host Gemma Rolls-Bentley in discussing their methods for constructing queerness in their lives and artworks, the importance of holding a viewers gaze, lesbian intensity, and CAMP! This episodes title is a line from “School Note,” a poem by Audre Lorde. Jenna Gribbon’s oil paintings constitute an important new entry in the long lineage o...

"The image is the least important thing about what went on." Photographers Rene Matić and Clifford Prince King explore the risks and rewards of photography, lenses of love and connection, and the power of preserving community through imaging à la Nan Goldin and Catherine Opie, with host Gemma Rolls-Bentley. Clifford Prince King is an artist living and working in New York and Los Angeles. He docume...

How do we reclaim traditions of home for our queer futures? Artists Leilah Babirye and Chiffon Thomas and host Gemma Rolls-Bentley discuss reconstructing the self, the permanence of lineage, and the historic weight of the heirlooms and materials they gravitate to in their sculptures. Chiffon Thomas is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, incorporating embroidery, collage, drawing, and...

Zackary Drucker and Amos Mac join the show to discuss swimming upstream as queer kids in the 90s, the resurrection of revisiting a home, and the abundance of trans stories yet to be told. Two photographs from their work, Distance is Where the Heart is, Home is Where You Hang Your Heart , are part of the Dreaming of Home exhibition, as well as Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art's permanent collection, com...

Artists Whiskey Chow and Charmaine Poh join host Gemma Rolls-Bentley in a conversation on the legacy of home for queer Asian diaspora. We discuss how they developed their transformative works, the history that informs artmaking, and how we create a shared playground and queer homeland with each other, for each other. Whiskey Chow is a London-based artist, activist and Chinese drag king. Chow’s pra...

Catherine Opie’s 1993 photograph Self-Portrait/Cutting serves as the starting point to the Dreaming of Home exhibition. From this seminal work, the show highlights the dissonances experienced by queer people in their desires to live and thrive, alongside the routine restrictions imposed by wider society. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Opie’s seminal work. Gemma Rolls-Bentley joins Opie in...

For many queer and trans people, family won’t involve children, but instead explores an array of nurturing intergenerational relationships and familial bonds that extend beyond the biological. But for others, having children is part of the journey and a key part of our home life. What do support networks look like for queer parents? Where can queer parents and kin find support? What do we hope to...

In the search for home, and in conjunction with her exhibition Dreaming of Home on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, curator and host Gemma Rolls-Bentley explores queer people’s hope for a happy, healthy future and the restrictions imposed by wider society on our dreams, our relationships, our families and our bodies. Alongside artists in the group exhibition and Leslie-Lohman Museum art workers,...