University of Oregon Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
Edie Fake: “An Impossible Place”
Davis Family Lecture
Thursday, February 9, 4:00 p.m.
Lawrence Hall, Room 115, 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR
Edie Fake is a painter and visual artist whose work examines issues of trans identity and “queer space” through the lens of architecture and ornamentation. Fake’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo shows at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY and Marlborough Contemporary, NYC, and in group exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC and the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU in Richmond, VA. His collection of comics, Gaylord Phoenix, won the 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel. Fake’s latest projects include mural installations for The Drawing Center, NYC and BAMPFA in Berkeley, CA. He is currently represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicago and Broadway Gallery in New York
This lecture is made possible by the Davis Family Endowed Fund in Art.
Lectures are also live streamed and archived on YouTube.
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Image caption: Oasis I, 2022, gouache on wood panel, 12 x 16 inches
