Deborah Kass in We Fancy: A Legacy of LGBTQIA+ Artists at the League: The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY

Since its inception, the Art Students League has been a site of unbridled creativity and a home for radical artmakers who reject social norms in the name of Art. It is not surprising that many LGBTQIA+ artists have found the League to be a space where they can express themselves and create art that expresses their honest, proud, and emboldened lives. The artists included in this exhibition all studied or taught at the League, and they each played a unique role in helping to lay the foundation for the acceptance and popularization of queer aesthetics as we know them today.  

Work by Judith Godwin, Deborah Kass, Robert Rauschenberg, Emilio Sanchez, Chitra Ganesh, and Cy Twombly will be on display, as well as work by Bernard Perlin, William Behnken, Doug Safranek, Dominique Medici, Coco Dolle, and more. The exhibition will also feature a new commissioned work by Chicago-based Ajmal Millar who will create a site-specific installation at the League.