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Colossal Modality, 2021 It seems curious that the work of renowned gay British mid-20th-century artist Francis Bacon, known for his idiosyncratic painterly abstractions of the human form, isn’t widely associated with disability. It’s true that Bacon, though being both asthmatic and an alcoholic, didn’t explicitly represent disabled bodies. And yet, his organically rendered and dynamically textured figures and portraits, their blurred energy often starkly counterposed against

Rage Hug Solidarity, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo in collaboration with Finnegan Shannon, 2025-ongoing On June 23 of this year, leftist activists who protested at an immigrant detention facility in Texas received decades-long sentences as a result of terrorism charges and sentence enhancements, in stark contrast to the fate of right-wing rioters who invaded the US Capitol in January 2021. Connections can be made between these Texas activists and that of the Sozialistisches Patie

Giving Way 2, 2025. Hand-crocheted yarn strips (wool, linen, cotton, synthetic), hand-stitched. approx. 40 x 32 inches Painter and fiber artist Pooja Pittie reflected with me on the natural associations viewers draw from her vibrant abstractions. I live in a city, I grew up in a city, but also, I don't know what it's like to go on these long hikes, climbing mountains or going camping. I have some memories of doing things like that when I was a kid, but I got diagnosed whe