Daryl Vocat & Peter Kingstone, Every Time We Played House, I Wanted to be the Pet Monkey, screenprint, 22″ x 30″, 2010.
May 25 – June 23, 2012
Opening: Friday, May 25, 7 – 9 p.m.
Open Studio George Gilmour Members’ Gallery
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Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
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Sissies & Psychopaths is a collaborative suite of prints examining popular representations of queer sexuality through a child’s eyes. These screenprints are evidence of a conversation between artists Kingstone and Vocat responding to one another in a playful manner, addressing their histories and understandings of growing up and developing a queer sensibility. From dragons and death metal, to disco balls and pin-ups, a varied world of queer archetypes emerges. By adopting pop culture imagery as their own, the artists suggest that queerness is as much about an understanding of the world as it is about sexual identity.