GayAlliance.org – Written by CEPA Gallery – Phalloplasty by Emmett Ramstad
Deviant Bodies 2.0 explores the margins of gender and representation by presenting work that speaks to issues and perspectives rarely made public. A companion to CEPA?s critically acclaimed 2004 project Deviant Bodies, voted Best Art Exhibit of the Year by ArtVoice and earning the Gallery a 2005 Empire State Pride Agenda Community Service Award, this complex exhibition investigates ideas through the multiple lenses of Transgender, Genderqueer and Gender Variant perspectives. It will run from Sept. 29 to Dec. 17. CEPA Gallery is located in the historic Market Arcade Complex in Buffalo. CEPA stands for Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art.
Gallery Director Lawrence Brose says that the Trans community runs the gamut of self expression. It is very different to be a white trans-person, a trans-person of color, a teenager, or a 40 year old. With these different points of view come numerous different notions of what it means to be a man, a woman, in-between, and beyond. Deviant Bodies 2.0 presents a range of perspectives and experiences intersecting with issues of race, class, age, ability, sex, sexuality, and nationality, to show Transgendered individuals as they truly are: angry, sexy, introspective, queer, and not like everyone else.