Through sculpture, the 13 exhibiting artists make objects that stand outside of normative interpretations of usefulness and conventionality, thereby expanding our worldview and possibilities for engagement. If queerness is an act of making things strange (or challenging norms), strangeness identifies potential points of rupture within social conditioning.

In Queer Anxieties, sculptures warp, modify, and queer mundane objects to make visible moments of queer anxiety and hyperbolize sensations beyond words. These sculptures arise from the anxiety of being at odds with the world around us, thereby provoking a sense of uneasy playfulness. A humorous and heavy-handed clothesline that hangs both wearable and uninhabitable garments. A modified wheelie office chair with nowhere to sit. Axes made from household cleaning tools to become harmless. A t-shirt made of tags that might overstimulate if worn. Absurdly self-referential, these objects call into question our assumptions of what an object is supposed to do, and how we are meant to engage with it and make meaning out of it.

Exhibiting artists include: Abby Pressberg, Andrew Harrison, Cynthia Chang, Henry Newman, Hisayasu Takashio, K Sarrantonio, Kelly Elkowitz, Margot Drukker, Noah Shipley, Ryan Swedenborg, Sarah Shotts, traci johnson, and wei.

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