A free public celebration of the fourth Aunt Charlie's art exhibition, featuring the work of Marissa Leitman,and performances by the queens featured in the exhibition.
In this exhibition, Marissa Leitman's vibrant photographic work focuses on High Fantasy at Aunt Charlie's, and it pays homage to a bygone era of quirky, rowdy, experimental drag that rebels against glam and redefines drag for a new generation.
On display until November 3rd, 2019
Marissa Patrice Leitman is a California based photographer and artist. Her work is heavily based in the Bay Area, routed in the drag, queer, techno and rock scenes. She rarely shoots someone unless she knows their name, and views photographing as an opportunity to publicly fess up her attractions. For Leitman, photography is a game of Truth or Dare; encouraging one to get as close to The Truth as possible; or else you just see how much you can get away with. She graduated from California College of the Arts in 2017; she recently published a photography book, EVERYTHING HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY through Nighted with another coming out through D3I. Leitman also runs Hit Gallery in San Francisco.
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This event is part of a larger series of events and exhibitions about the pioneering drag queen performers at the legendary Aunt Charlie's. Aunt Charlie's is one of the oldest continuously operating queer bars in San Francisco, the last working class queer bar in San Francisco, and the last of its kind in the Tenderloin district. Our project aims to celebrate and lend visibility to Aunt Charlie's as a remarkable space of socio-historical importance that is graced nightly by offbeat, eccentric characters whose seemingly idiosyncratic lives open up universal themes related to beauty, community, and self-acceptance.
Aunt Charlie's: San Francisco's Working Class Drag Bar highlights the work of numerous LGBTQ artists with a history of working in the neighborhood, and who reflect diverse approaches to portraiture: James Hosking, Tim Synder, Raphael Villet, Marissa Leitman, and Darwin Bell. Our project hopes to draw into focus the Tenderloin's low-income LGBTQ community, to reflect on the area's history as a center of drag performance, and to engage the intersectionality of drag as it relates to questions of class, race, gender, and beyond.
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In this exhibition, Marissa Leitman's vibrant photographic work focuses on High Fantasy at Aunt Charlie's, and it pays homage to a bygone era of quirky, rowdy, experimental drag that rebels against glam and redefines drag for a new generation.
On display until November 3rd, 2019
Marissa Patrice Leitman is a California based photographer and artist. Her work is heavily based in the Bay Area, routed in the drag, queer, techno and rock scenes. She rarely shoots someone unless she knows their name, and views photographing as an opportunity to publicly fess up her attractions. For Leitman, photography is a game of Truth or Dare; encouraging one to get as close to The Truth as possible; or else you just see how much you can get away with. She graduated from California College of the Arts in 2017; she recently published a photography book, EVERYTHING HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY through Nighted with another coming out through D3I. Leitman also runs Hit Gallery in San Francisco.
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This event is part of a larger series of events and exhibitions about the pioneering drag queen performers at the legendary Aunt Charlie's. Aunt Charlie's is one of the oldest continuously operating queer bars in San Francisco, the last working class queer bar in San Francisco, and the last of its kind in the Tenderloin district. Our project aims to celebrate and lend visibility to Aunt Charlie's as a remarkable space of socio-historical importance that is graced nightly by offbeat, eccentric characters whose seemingly idiosyncratic lives open up universal themes related to beauty, community, and self-acceptance.
Aunt Charlie's: San Francisco's Working Class Drag Bar highlights the work of numerous LGBTQ artists with a history of working in the neighborhood, and who reflect diverse approaches to portraiture: James Hosking, Tim Synder, Raphael Villet, Marissa Leitman, and Darwin Bell. Our project hopes to draw into focus the Tenderloin's low-income LGBTQ community, to reflect on the area's history as a center of drag performance, and to engage the intersectionality of drag as it relates to questions of class, race, gender, and beyond.
A free public celebration of the fourth Aunt Charlie's art exhibition, featuring the work of Marissa Leitman,and performances by the queens featured in the exhibition.
In this exhibition, Marissa Leitman's vibrant photographic work focuses on High Fantasy at Aunt Charlie's, and it pays homage to a bygone era of quirky, rowdy, experimental drag that rebels against glam and redefines drag for a new generation.
On display until November 3rd, 2019
Marissa Patrice Leitman is a California based photographer and artist. Her work is heavily based in the Bay Area, routed in the drag, queer, techno and rock scenes. She rarely shoots someone unless she knows their name, and views photographing as an opportunity to publicly fess up her attractions. For Leitman, photography is a game of Truth or Dare; encouraging one to get as close to The Truth as possible; or else you just see how much you can get away with. She graduated from California College of the Arts in 2017; she recently published a photography book, EVERYTHING HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY through Nighted with another coming out through D3I. Leitman also runs Hit Gallery in San Francisco.
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This event is part of a larger series of events and exhibitions about the pioneering drag queen performers at the legendary Aunt Charlie's. Aunt Charlie's is one of the oldest continuously operating queer bars in San Francisco, the last working class queer bar in San Francisco, and the last of its kind in the Tenderloin district. Our project aims to celebrate and lend visibility to Aunt Charlie's as a remarkable space of socio-historical importance that is graced nightly by offbeat, eccentric characters whose seemingly idiosyncratic lives open up universal themes related to beauty, community, and self-acceptance.
Aunt Charlie's: San Francisco's Working Class Drag Bar highlights the work of numerous LGBTQ artists with a history of working in the neighborhood, and who reflect diverse approaches to portraiture: James Hosking, Tim Synder, Raphael Villet, Marissa Leitman, and Darwin Bell. Our project hopes to draw into focus the Tenderloin's low-income LGBTQ community, to reflect on the area's history as a center of drag performance, and to engage the intersectionality of drag as it relates to questions of class, race, gender, and beyond.
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In this exhibition, Marissa Leitman's vibrant photographic work focuses on High Fantasy at Aunt Charlie's, and it pays homage to a bygone era of quirky, rowdy, experimental drag that rebels against glam and redefines drag for a new generation.
On display until November 3rd, 2019
Marissa Patrice Leitman is a California based photographer and artist. Her work is heavily based in the Bay Area, routed in the drag, queer, techno and rock scenes. She rarely shoots someone unless she knows their name, and views photographing as an opportunity to publicly fess up her attractions. For Leitman, photography is a game of Truth or Dare; encouraging one to get as close to The Truth as possible; or else you just see how much you can get away with. She graduated from California College of the Arts in 2017; she recently published a photography book, EVERYTHING HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY through Nighted with another coming out through D3I. Leitman also runs Hit Gallery in San Francisco.
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This event is part of a larger series of events and exhibitions about the pioneering drag queen performers at the legendary Aunt Charlie's. Aunt Charlie's is one of the oldest continuously operating queer bars in San Francisco, the last working class queer bar in San Francisco, and the last of its kind in the Tenderloin district. Our project aims to celebrate and lend visibility to Aunt Charlie's as a remarkable space of socio-historical importance that is graced nightly by offbeat, eccentric characters whose seemingly idiosyncratic lives open up universal themes related to beauty, community, and self-acceptance.
Aunt Charlie's: San Francisco's Working Class Drag Bar highlights the work of numerous LGBTQ artists with a history of working in the neighborhood, and who reflect diverse approaches to portraiture: James Hosking, Tim Synder, Raphael Villet, Marissa Leitman, and Darwin Bell. Our project hopes to draw into focus the Tenderloin's low-income LGBTQ community, to reflect on the area's history as a center of drag performance, and to engage the intersectionality of drag as it relates to questions of class, race, gender, and beyond.
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398 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
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