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COPYRIGHT 2007 Visual Studies Workshop
DEVIANT BODIES 2.0
CEPA GALLERY
BUFFALO, NEW YORK
SEPTEMBER 29-DECEMBER 17, 2006
Following on the heels of the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art's (CEPA) groundbreaking 2004 exhibition "Deviant Bodies 1.0," which explored not art by gay men, not art about gay men, but rather the gay male aesthetic in visual art/media, "Deviant Bodies 2.0" focuses on work by, about, and from within the transgendered community.
"Deviant Bodies 2.0," curated by CEPA Executive Director Lawrence F. Brose and J.R. Martin-Alexander, explores a wide range of experience as expressed through photography-based visual media by and about "transgender[s], genderqueer[s], and [those from] gender variant perspectives," as noted on the gallery's Web site. "Deviant Bodies 2.0" is an expansive exhibition that covers spaces on three separate floors. The work in this provocative and important exhibition reflects the viewpoints of this varied group of artists, as well as the perspectives of artists about these "transgender warriors," to borrow a term from the title of activist Leslie Feinberg's 1997 book. It successfully identifies the beginnings of both new ways of being in the world and a new type of community.
Precisely because of the subject matter explored by these artists, the use of self-portraiture or, at the very least, the exploration of the body and its parts, is prevalent. Tobaron Waxman, for example, a Toronto-based photographer, depicts through large-format photographs female-to-male (FTM) persons, post mastectomy, interacting with members of a Hassidic community. Seen in photographs of ritualized haircuts,...
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