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SUMMARY:"Lavender Bloom"
DESCRIPTION:BOFFO Fall Benefit Exhibition 2025 \nLavender Bloom brings together artists whose work engages with florals as a site of Queer transformation\, embodiment\, and radical possibility.\n \nFlowers can function as symbols of identity\, desire\, and defiance. Flowers can be vessels of coded language\, subversion\, and politics. In the lexicon of Queerness\, flowers hold particular significance—coded markers of resistance\, their scent a whisper of histories both hidden and reclaimed. Lavender Bloom brings together artists whose work engages with florals as a site of Queer transformation\, embodiment\, and radical possibility. \nBotanical language has long been entangled with Queer histories\, operating as both metaphor and means of survival. Petals become sites of protest\, gardens evolve into spaces of care\, and blossoms—both cultivated and wild—emerge as emblems of resilience. This exhibition situates floral imagery within a lineage of Queer aesthetics\, examining its capacity to reflect the vast interpretation of Queerness as fluid\, strange\, deviant\, unclassifiable\, different\, eccentric\, excessive\, extravagant\, flamboyant\, curious\, weird\, exceptional\, peculiar\, odd\, outlandish\, and nonconforming. \nThrough painting\, sculpture\, photography\, and more\, Lavender Bloom explores the shifting relationship between Queerness and nature. Works interrogate the boundaries between the organic and the constructed\, the ornamental and the political. Some artists will engage with historical codes of floral symbolism—channeling the violets of Romaine Brooks\, the poetic symbolism of love and longing represented by floral motifs in Martin Wong’s paintings\, and the themes of loss and remembrance in the photographic images of roses by Félix González-Torres—while others will subvert traditional representations of nature through abstraction\, materiality\, and performance like the radiant\, almost spiritual energy of Beauford Delany’s late works\, blooms of Cy Twombly\, the charged botanicals of Robert Mapplethorpe. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\nLavender Bloom draws on the deep historical ties between lavender and Queer identity. The phrase evokes both the history of the Lavender Scare\, when Queer individuals were persecuted in the mid-20th century\, and the later reclamation of lavender as a sign of empowerment within LGBTQ+ activism. Just as lavender flourishes in unexpected places\, this exhibition celebrates the ways Queer artists have used floral imagery to assert presence\, cultivate beauty\, and reimagine belonging. \nDesigned by Math Bass \n\nPARTICIPATING ARTISTS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlannah Farrell \nAlessandro Teoldi \nBony Ramirez \nCFGNY \nChris Martin \nClifford Prince King \nDominique Knowles \nEJ Hill \nFicus Interfaith \nJimmy Wright \nJoe Brainard \n\n\n\n\n\n\n      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Giorno \nJohn Sandroni \nJustin Liam O’Brien \nK8 Hardy \nMath Bass \nMoses Leonardo \nNicole Eisenman \nOren Pinhassi \nPamela Sneed \nPeter Schlesinger \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Youn \nRoss Bleckner \nSahar Khoury \nScott Treleaven \nTabboo! \nTM Davy \nTom of Finland \nTravis Boyer \nUlrike Müller \nWangShui \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \nhttps://www.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SnapInsta.to_AQMYmhkVW9AdcQoBNJq6Tn2jSKgmrb5B9Cj2L9SiRr-QYiEsXFCFWEp5ZrkxBf1wYgbAktwLpKpREmCX83fi_HvW74w9q-62Tc25fUo.mp4\n  \n\nOpening: 23rd October\, 6–8p \n\nPanel Discussion: 25th October\, 4–6p \nTom in Bloom\nArtists reflecting on Queer figuration in their work with Tom of Finland as a source of inspiration.\nWith artists Bony Ramirez and Alannah Farrell in conversation with Michael Bullock. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n  \n\nPublic Hours: 24th-25th October\, 10a–6p \n \n\nWithin Lavender Bloom\, Tom of Finland’s Flower print unfurls as both tribute and transformation—a bridge between past and present\, and a testament to the endurance of Queer imagination. \nPlaced among contemporary Queer artists exploring floral imagery as a language of care and resistance\, Flower becomes part of a broader conversation on how Queerness continues to evolve through tenderness\, community\, and collaboration. The partnership between Tom of Finland Foundation and BOFFO turns legacy into dialogue\, showing that the radical beauty of Tom’s work still pulses through new generations of artists. \n\nTom’s in full bloom\n						Tom of Finland’s Flower—A New Limited Edition Print Celebrating Queer Beauty\, Legacy\, and Community Produced in collaboration with BOFFO and Powerhouse Arts TOM OF FINLAND\, Flower\, 1970 / 2025 Medium:... View Article
URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/lavender-bloom/
LOCATION:kurimanzutto new york\, 516 West 20th Street\, New York\,\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery Show
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