The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews

The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews was created to highlight the artists of the 2020 Naked Truth Pride Exhibition. Expanding beyond the 5 artists of the show, the show will continue beyond June with interviews of queer artists of all backgrounds and mediums, sharing their lives, discussing their work, and exploring the connections between their sexuality and their artistic practices, processes, and careers.Beyond the 2020 June show, The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews seeks to amplify the reach of queer artists, as the freelance art community has been deeply affected by the COVID-19 crisis, both bringing their works to a wider audience and bringing us all closer through a digital community of celebrating art and sharing our unique narratives as queer people. Artists will mostly be based out of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews

The Naked Truth: Queer Artist Interviews - Heather Raquel Phillips

July 09, 2020 • Peter Pup Orpheus / Heather Raquel Phillips • Season 1 • Episode 6

An interview with unfixed artist Heather Raquel Phillips, They are an unfixed, autonomous person of color living and working in Philadelphia as an interdisciplinary visual artist, educator and independent curator, dedicated to creating equity in the spaces they inhabit. Their work has been written about in Philadelphia Gay News, Hyperallergic, ArtForum.com & Sixty Inches From Center. They recently had their memoir of vignettes published in The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research in issue, 50.2, Black Radical Pleasure and are currently working on a public Art project in front of their residence and have an upcoming show at Practice Gallery (Date TBD).

Examples of Heather's Work (including works referenced in the episode):

Photography
- Figure #1
- Figure #2
- Figure #3
(S)ExtraCurricular (ongoing video project)
Tex(T)iles (pennants/banners)
Time-based media from a recent show
Margin (photography of black people and people of color in leather)

Ways to Connect:

The Naked Truth Show Website
Website: http://heatheraquelphilllips.com
Instagram: @heatheraquel
Vimeo
YouTube
Email: heatheraquel@mac.com

Referenced During the Episode:

Screenshot of the velvet painting from The Shining (1980, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

This episode was recorded using Zoom.