Deviant Bodies - Call for Artwork

Deviant Bodies 2.0
Call for Work
September 15 – December 17, 2006
Due to the tremendous success of our Summer 2004 exhibition Deviant Bodies (a 7-person exhibit that explored the margins of contemporary gay male culture and received the Best Art Exhibit of the Year Award from ArtVoice). CEPA Gallery is in the process of organizing a companion exhibition that explores the same themes through the multiple lenses of Transgender and Gender Queer perspectives. Throughout the course of its 30-year history, CEPA Gallery has proudly presented the work of LGBT artists in its large, theme-based exhibitions, but Deviant Bodies was our first exhibit specifically focused on the gay community.
In fact, it was the first significant exhibition of queer visual art in Western New York. In this era of the “positive” gay white male assimilating into contemporary mainstream culture, Deviant Bodies presented an alternative image, one that celebrated diversity and individuality and provided a variety of perspectives that are not typically represented in cultural spaces or gay media. With Deviant Bodies 2 we are interested in reviewing work that, within the Transgendered and Queer Gender perspectives, explores the margins of gender and representation by speaking to issues and from experiences that are rarely represented. We are interested in artists working in photo-related and real-time media based artwork, installation projects that include video, photo and sound, and projects for CEPA’s Public Art Window.
If you would like to have your work considered for Deviant Bodies 2 please contact lawrence@cepagallery.com or call 856-2717. Also, if you know of artists that we should be looking at please forward this call to them. You may also send proposals and work samples (slides, CDs, DVDs and video accepted). Please send your materials ASAP:
CEPA Gallery
617 Main St., suite 201
Buffalo, NY 14203 To review Deviant Bodies (2004) exhibition go to
Attn: Deviant Bodies 2 http://www.cepagallery.com/cepa/exhibits/exhibits04/deviant/index.html