Tom of Finland Foundation presents
Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival 2021
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4th & 5th December

Second Home
1370 North Saint Andrews Place
Los Angeles (Hollywood), California 90028

#tofARTfair

11a – 5p Both Days

Event Tickets

 

Get your discounted tickets before the price goes up.

You’ll also find tickets for the fundraising dinner on 3rd December.

About the Festival

A central hub of the Queer erotic art community. Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival provides a space for artists to exhibit their work and offers the public a unique opportunity to view and purchase erotic art from all over the world.

Exhibitors

Artists, Vendors & Galleries

Shirts, soaps, hoodies and merch.
Video prints and drawings.
Small oil paintings on canvas.
Hand painted stained glass panels featuring latex and leatherwear.
Selected signed & limited edition black and white fine art photographs of male nudes from my upcoming book.
A selection of original oil paintings charcoal drawings and limited prints.
A new series of drawings compiled in a zine, original drawings and small ceramics.
Published art folios and graphic novels, art prints, pen & ink and color pencil drawings, watercolor paintings and prints.
Original watercolor paintings, drawings and prints and pins, patches and magnets featuring original artwork.
Original paintings, drawings and selected polaroids.
Full color books of nightlife sketches and screen printed art prints.
Original drawings, prints, limited edition copies of MisterOsborne's first book and greeting cards.
Original drawings risographs photographs and performance detritus created between 2020 and 2021.
T-Shirts, clothing, art and handmade punk accessories.
Embroidery prints, original collages in watercolor and gouache.
Rarely seen selected photographs from San Francisco 1984 - 1996 for On Our Backs magazine.
Sexy photos of porn stars I have known.
Homoerotic Ceramics including figurines, planters, ashtrays, soap dishes and watercolor paintings and pen & ink drawings of African men.
Paintings, prints and hand painted clothing dealing with trans affirmative themes.
Comics, art prints and T-shirts.
Large and small scale photographic prints. Fantasy, utopia and pleasure; how do these words resonate in queer bodies? Can acting on desires aberrant to the norm position us as significantly ‘other’, that we may be able to see the world critically and strive to make it better?
Exclusive series of small paintings each featuring collage resin and signature Josh Paul style illustrations.
Framed gouache and İnk paintings on cold pressed paper
Haircuts and barbering for Dames Gents and Folx in between since 2011. Folklore will be showing artwork from Spike. Spike is a queer, latinx, multi-medium artist and performer. Native angelino, Spike is a jack of all trades and master to some. live-event hosting, drag performance, performance art and leather and fetish enthusiast. Both in life and art, Spike explores and blends traditional dichotomies of light and dark, masculine and feminine, rage and joy. His raw, unconventional, yet inviting work reflects his view that expression is existence. No Fears. No Regrets. Just Life.
Peachy Kings and Kweer Cards creates cheeky gifts for cheeky gays. We focus on Tom of Finland merchandise with a new vibrant twist — but also specialize in gay greeting cards T-shirts Terry Miller merch and other works by queer artist.
Altered Innocence is dedicated to releasing LGBTQ & Coming-of-Age films with an artistic edge. This year we've worked with MoMA to release restored versions of Fred Halsted's long unavailable S&M hardcore masterpieces LA PLAYS ITSELF, SEXTOOL and THE SEX GARAGE now available on 2xDVD and Blu-ray packages with hours of bonus features.
I Should Have Known Better is a sequel to the sleeper hit I’m Open to Anything (2019) expanding the original’s scope and ambition. The new book has been produced entirely with the support of a crowdfunding campaign that reached five figures and 150% funding an unprecedented accomplishment for a literary novel.
One-stop shop for everything Tom of Finland and beyond
Sleek, modernly designed unit that makes and delivers animated gifs instantly at your event!
Dirty Looks Inc is a platform for queer film, video and performance founded in 2011
Murmurs is a multifaceted art space located In DTLA, focused on championing experimental and emerging art practices. Murmurs exists to challenge what is expected of an arts space by providing a new model of a multifaceted platform for strengthening community solidarity and building consciousness in order to transform reality.

Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya (@que.fresca) Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya’s lil monsters are a fantastic becoming that center around anthologies and social issues concerning border culture, abjection, and mestizaje. Aided by magical realism, nahualismo, Sci-Fi, and the labor of his family, his work hybridizes and creates parallels between land, the human, and the animal as a way to investigate the process in which violence eradicates, erases, and erodes communities of color.

Grace Wardlaw (@grace.a.wardlaw)Sci-fi sexual objects that playfully oscillate between functional and sculptural. Hot, sculpted glass works interpreting the artist’s experiences of faith, bodies, nature, relationships and the forces connecting them. Grace Wardlaw is an artist and craftsperson currently living and working outside of London, Ontario, Canada. Grace was born in 1989, and was raised in Kingston, Ontario. She went on to study ‘Craft and Design Glass’ at Sheridan College (just outside of Toronto), before moving between St. John’s (in Newfoundland & Labrador), Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City to immerse herself in creative communities. Grace’s art and design skills led her to floristry, where she had the pleasure of working with some of the most unique and well-known floral companies across the USA. Upon her return to Canada in 2019, Grace co-founded ‘Peace Lily Toys’, a handmade glass sex toy company.

Emily Lucid has created the TRANS 101 USB: a thumb drive can contain information but it is also a space for one to transcribe new information into it, an amphora. The video, text and images you will find within this drive are intended to open a door to your own personal exploration of gender. I don't have all the answers and I hope you add new files to the drive and add to your own ideas and discoveries about transgenderism into this vessel.
Edward Cella Art+Architecture proudly debuts a new body of work entitled Protection by photographer Blake Little. Initially started with the Little's visual interest in rubber and latex clothing and, specifically, how it covers and accentuates the body to create sexual desire while paradoxically worn in the pursuit of this human connection. In the midst of making the series during the pandemic, the work took on a new universal layer of meaning: In the artist’s words, "How do we navigate intimacy in this new reality when human contact can threaten your life?"

Exploring art created during the first AIDS pandemic, the gallery will also present works on paper by three historic gay artists Patrick Angus (1953–1992), James Huber (1950-1988) and Michael Hossner (1953-1990). Documenting a new burgeoning, gay identity and creating innovative visual representations, each of these artists explore portraiture and the male body as expressions of liberation.
Contemporary artwork by largely California based artists both renowned and emerging.
A Temporary Gallery featuring LGBTQ+ artists for viewing and or sales -- presented salon style installation and portfolios.
A group of queer NFT artists
Los Angeles fetish artist Rick Castro will be presenting Matte Fiber vintage photography & archival Digital prints, plus his books, DVDs, one-of-a-kind fetish dolls and original drawings by Parisian artist Marsorama.
Suzanne is a figurative oil painter.
Los Angeles based, Mexican born Illustrator/painter, photo Documentarian.
Lethal Amounts began as a clothing line predominantly focussing on graphic t-shirts being hand screen printed. With our first brick and mortar store we launched the gallery that quickly bloomed into a haven for outsiders and confrontationists. We gradually grew into working more with musicians to promote concerts, clubs as well as gallery shows surrounding the music subcultures we love.

We pride ourselves in curating provocative exhibitions and give opportunity to young artists that are creating dialogue challenging traditional views on sexuality.

Lethal Amounts is an extension of owner and curator Danny Fuentes and reflects his personal taste and interests.

Online Viewing Room

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The Program

 

3rd December 2021

  • Phenakite

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    Cocktails
    Location: Art Fair

  • Phenakite

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    Dinner
    Location: Oval Room

4th December 2021

  • Performance

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    LA Plays Itself starts screening
    first screening (continues all day)
    Location: Screening Room

  • Presentations

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    Art & Culture Fair

  • Presentations

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    Opening Ceremonies
    Location: Outdoor Performance area

  • Talk

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    Expanding and Subverting the Masculine in Queer Erotic Art
    Location: Outdoor Performance area

  • Performance

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    Steven Reigns Reading
    Location: Outdoor Performance area

  • Performance

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    William E. Jones Reading
    Location: Outdoor Performance area
    DESCRIPTION: Presented by David Kordansky Gallery

5th December 2021

  • Life Drawing

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    Life Drawing Session
    Location: Life Drawing Room

  • Presentations

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    Art & Culture Fair

  • Performance

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    LA Plays Itself starts screening
    first screening (continues all day)
    Location: Screening Room

  • Performance

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    Murmurs Gallery Performance
    Location: Indoor Performance Area
    DESCRIPTION: Three separate performances from Emily Lucid, Austyn Rich and Sebastian Hernández

  • Presentations

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    Awards Presentation
    Location: Outdoor Performance area
    DESCRIPTION: Lloyd L. Clayton | Martín Sorrondeguy | Suzanne Shifflett

  • Presentations

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    Auction Announcement / Closing Remarks
    Location: Outdoor Performance area
    DESCRIPTION: Lloyd L. Clayton | Martín Sorrondeguy | Suzanne Shifflett

Lloyd L. Clayton

Martin Sorrondeguy

Suzanne Shifflett

Food and beverage will be available for purchase throughout the weekend.

Printed Program

A fundraising dinner to open the Festival

Sponsors

Press

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Covid-19 Updates

We at the Tom of Finland Foundation want to assure you that we are taking all the necessary safety precautions and following all the safety guidelines and protocols for COVID-19, put in place by Los Angeles County and the City of Los Angeles.

We will require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test upon entry.

Masks are required in courtyard and all indoor spaces.

For more information, visit publichealth.lacounty