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The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is pleased to announce their upcoming exhibition FOUND: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction on view June 10 - September 10, 2017 and curated by Avram Finkelstein, founding member of the Silence=Death and Gran Fury collectives. Coinciding with this exhibition, the Museum will debut the new QueerPower fa莽ade commission in early June 2017 designed by the Silence=Death Collective, and will honor this collective at their annual Summer Benefit on June 8 from 6 鈥� 9 pm.

FOUND surveys the work of 27 contemporary artists as well as ephemera from Greer Lankton. The work on view examines queer identity utilizing the tools of abstraction, and the exhibition design and installation take inspiration from the concept of the artist's workshop as a space for excavation and inquiry. The exhibition begins with works depicting the inescapable stand-in for selfhood, the body, as reimagined by a group of artists intent on dismantling it. Here artists including Geoffrey Chadsey, Troy Michie, Rodrigo Moreira, Robert Lucy, and Frederick Weston survey notions of gender, race and class through depictions of human form.

The second grouping in this exhibition includes the work of Eve Fowler, LJ Roberts, Karen Heagle, Matt Lipps, and Angela Dufresne, which examines images of queerness within the canon of art history.

The third grouping of works in this exhibition presents works concerned with negative mark-making鈥攊ncision, refusal, and erasure, all gestures of counter-inscription through the works of Ken Gonzales-Day, Carrie Yamaoka, Lucas Michael, Nancy Brooks Brody, and Anthony Goicolea.

The fourth grouping of works by artists Sam Gordon, Maika'i Tubbs, Alyse Ronayne, Brian Christopher Glaser, Jacob Robichaux, Doron Langberg, and Gaye Chan examine notions of detritus thorough the exploration of the generative potential of the things we discard, and hints at what is perhaps the queerest gesture of all, transformation.

"Avram's brilliant curatorial vision for this timely exhibition captures the zeitgeist of our times," said Gonzalo Casals, Director of Leslie-Lohman. "As ideas of identities around the LGBTQ construct become more nuanced and intersectional, FOUND is a much needed survey on queerness that mirrors the need of LGBTQ contemporary artists to look back as they move forward."

The final section of the exhibition suggests meta-visions of the ways personal and social identity can be layered, and sometimes placed in conflict through the works of Omar Mismar, Buzz Slutzky, Boris Torres, Maia Cruz Palileo, Pamela Sneed, and ephemera from Greer Lankton.

Through these five specific contemporary observations of queerness, FOUND uncovers queerness depicted through images of the alternatively sited body, opening the doors to a queer abstraction.

"Avram's brilliant curatorial vision for this timely exhibition captures the zeitgeist of our times," said Gonzalo Casals, Director of Leslie-Lohman. "As ideas of identities around the LGBTQ construct become more nuanced and intersectional, FOUND is a much needed survey on queerness that mirrors the need of LGBTQ contemporary artists to look back as they move forward."