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Camp Fires: Subversive Queer Concepts in Clay

Camp Fires: Subversive Queer Concepts in Clay

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Staking a claim for queer identity through an exhibit of camp ceramics.

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Camp Fires, at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, reveals the concept of "camp" in the work of three important Francophone Canadian ceramic artists: Leopold L. Foulem, Paul Mathieu, and Richard Milette. Camp Fires is an often sensual encounter of these artists' powerful body of work, one that addresses subversive ideas about queer identity through clay.
Below, curator Robin Metcalf on the exhibit:


The exhibit is ongoing through September 1.
Gardiner Museum
111 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 2C7
Canada
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Leopold L. Foulem, So Many Men
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Leopold L. Foulem, Priest in Black Cassock with Boy on Mount, 2012

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Leopold L. Foulem, Pair of Male Couples

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Leopold L. Foulem, Juicy Banana, 1976

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Leopold L. Foulem, Urinoir, 1992

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Leopold L. Foulem, Urn Funereal

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Richard Milette, Cup on Fruits, 1998

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Richard Milette, Teapot for a Queen X, 1989

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Richard Milette, Guasparre, 2000

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Leopold L. Foulem, Bicycle Seat Blue and Yellow, 1977

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Paul Mathieu, Crucifixion Bowl, 1984

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Paul Mathieu, Camouflage series (E.M.), 2005

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Paul Mathieu, Camouflage series (G.L.), 2005

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Paul Mathieu, Kiss Vase 1-6, 2013

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Paul Mathieu, Kiss Vase 1-6, 2013

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Paul Mathieu, Kiss Vase, 2013

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Nested Eggs

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Christopher Harrity is the Manager of Online Production for Here Media, parent company to The Advocate and Out. He enjoys assembling online features on artists and photographers, and you can often find him poring over the mouldering archives of the magazines.
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