GENDER EXPRESSIONISM
Beyond the palette of pink and blue, this series explores gender as a metaphor for painting, as a societal projection, social construction, and expressive tool. It examines how norms and restrictions shape our expressive palette, with mostly queers working within those limitations more consciously, dipping into other creative choices to make their own genders on their bodies. The paintings are projected onto walls to emphasize how gendered meanings are projected onto bodies, as well as projected outward from an understanding of ourselves. Sometimes the paintings pass as paintings, sometimes they do not, and often they are read as abstract. This shows the constant dance gender non-conforming people must face when being read in a society largely unprepared to read gender beyond a binary framework.