To Move Toward the Limits of Living: LGBTQ+ Works from the Collection

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Where

Main Museum

When

March 7, 2024 – January 13, 2025

Where

Main Museum

When

March 7, 2024 – January 13, 2025

Drawing from the museum’s photography, painting, and design collections, To Move Toward the Limits of Living examines how LGBTQ+ artists have used diverse strategies to respond to experiences of exclusion and discover new possibility, casting light on subjects including the LGBTQ+ self, domestic space, and the broader social world.

While grappling with shared concerns like identity, marginality, and the AIDS epidemic, the works on view underscore the diversity of approaches to art and living within LGBTQ+ community, adopting visual strategies from documentary photography to hard-edge abstraction.

The exhibition takes its title from the novelist Larry Mitchell who wrote about LGBTQ+ communities living “between revolutions” in the 1970s, depicting both the constraints of existence in a hostile society and the possibility of finding abundance beyond a world of threats.

Artists included in the exhibition include Ruth Bernhard, Mark Bradford, Nan Goldin, Jim Isermann, Bob Mizer, and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Exhibition Highlights

Gabriela Ruiz, <em>Untitled (Yellow Love Seat)</em>, 2019
Gabriela Ruiz, Untitled (Yellow Love Seat), 2019
John Sonsini, <em>Gabriel</em>, 2003
John Sonsini, Gabriel, 2003
Mark Bradford, <em>Vote Now for LATER</em>, 2007
Mark Bradford, Vote Now for LATER, 2007
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This event is part of our Q+ ART program.

A Palm Springs Art Museum center supporting LGBTQ+ creative achievements

This exhibition is curated by Robert J. Kett, PhD, Adjunct Curator, Architecture & Design, Palm Springs Art Museum and Associate Professor, ArtCenter College of Design.

The exhibition is made possible by the generous supporters of the Q+ Art program, including Founding Benefactors Craig Hartzman & James John; Founders Simon K. Chiu, Arthur M. Cohen & Daryl R. Otte, Kevin Comer & Rick Distel, Mark Hamilton & Juan Francisco, John P. Monahan, Jonathan Murray & Harvey Reese, Mark Pellegrino & Stuart Kent, Michael W. Rabkin & Chip Tom, Pamela Schmider, Robert Shiell; and Patrons Steve Corkin & Dan Maddalena, Eric Dingler & Rob Reinhart, and Drew Hodges & Peter Kukielski.

Exhibition hotel partner Drift.

Installation photography by RJ Sánchez | Solstream Studios.

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