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BEAUTIFUL BY NIGHT James Hosking

ABOUT THE ARTIST: James Hosking is a Chicago-based photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist. His portraiture explores underseen LGBTQ+ communities and subcultures. In recent work, he prints on fabric and acrylic, as well as collages with archival material, vernacular photos, and found textures. His work was included in the 2020 exhibition Come to Your Census at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and he had a multi-year collaboration with the city’s Tenderloin Museum. His work has been screened internationally and has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, and many other publications. He collaborated with National Book Award-winning writer William T. Vollmann on a portfolio about transgender women for Port magazine. His work has received support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and San Francisco’s Grants for the Arts program.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: James Hosking lived in San Francisco’s Tenderloin

residency at the Red Bull House of Art. In 2016 Rucker was honored as a Modern Man by Black Enterprise magazine. In 2017 Rucker created the original artwork for the critically acclaimed Detroit Free Press documentary 12th and Clairmount. His work was recently featured in HBO’s celebrated series Random Acts of Flyness and the movie Native Son. In 2019 Rucker was the first Red Bull Arts Detroit grant awardee and was named a Kresge Arts Fellow for his drawing practice. In 2020 Rucker was named a Sustainable Arts Foundation awardee. In 2021 he was awarded a prestigious International Studies and Curatorial Program (ISCP) residency. Rucker’s diverse work is represented in numerous public and private collections.

neighborhood from 2010 to 2018, during which time he developed the Beautiful By Night photo series and documentary film. The work is about the veteran drag performers at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, a small bar that has had an outsized influence on San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ community for more than twenty years. It is now the last gay bar in the area. The project captures the performers Donna Personna, Olivia Hart, and Collette LeGrande as they transform at home, backstage, and onstage. It is a candid exploration of aging, identity, and labor.

RELATED EVENTS: • Special evening viewing with James Hosking in conversation with Curator Amanda Krugliak

Beautiful By Night documentary screening including appearances by two of the film’s protagonists: Olivia Hart and Donna Personna.

NEVER FREE TO REST Rashaun Rucker

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Rashaun Rucker (b. 1978, Winston-Salem, NC) ) is a product of North Carolina Central University and Marygrove College. He makes photographs, prints, and drawings and has won more than 40 national and state awards for his work. In 2008 Rucker became the first African American to be named Michigan Press Photographer of the Year. He also won a national Emmy Award in 2008 for documentary photography on the pit bull culture in Detroit. Rucker was a Maynard Fellow at Harvard in 2009 and a Hearst visiting professional in the journalism department at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2013. In 2014 Rucker was awarded an artist Rucker in conversation with curator Amanda Krugliak

Fonsi, Shizu Saldamando

ABOUT THE INSTALLATION: See article on page 12

RELATED EVENTS: • Special evening viewing with Rashaun This exhibition was possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation as part of the Institute for the Humanities High Stakes Art Initiative.

WHEN THIS IS ALL OVER / CUANDO ESTO TERMINE Shizu Saldamando

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Shizu Saldamando is an Los Angeles based mixed media artist with an emphasis on portraiture. She received her BA from UCLA’s School of Arts an Architecture and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally and experiments with a broad range of surfaces and materials. Saldamando’s practice employs tattooing, video, painting and drawing on