Rachel Ungerer
Disabled Drag is Joy
2023
Acrylic paint on canvas
12” x 9”
$142
Website: http://www.rachelungerer.com/
California, USA
2023
Acrylic paint on canvas
12” x 9”
$142
Website: http://www.rachelungerer.com/
California, USA
ARTIST INTERVIEW with ASL interpretation:
ABOUT THE ART AND ARTIST:
“In a society that is actively harming our queer and disabled communities, my art challenges discriminatory views by celebrating us as we are. The unedited sexuality in my work confronts the way disabled people are desexualized and infantilized. My work is a celebration of desirable disabled queer sexuality. We are beautiful and sensual as we are, access needs and all.”
BIO:
Rachel Ungerer is a local Bay Area queer disabled artist. She earned a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles with a focus on painting. Her work has been shown in Los Angeles, Louisville KY, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Palo Alto, and Oakland. After developing a constant chronic pain condition that limits the use of both hands, Ungerer re-trained herself to paint by working with her disabled body. She exaggerates human form and uses gestural brush strokes to capture fleeting feelings. By publicly identifying as someone with an invisible disability, Ungerer hopes to promote greater awareness and confront discriminatory social norms.
DESCRIPTION:
Disabled Drag is Joy
Facing us against a brown background is a disabled performer in full drag, dancing in wheelchair. Expressive brushstrokes capture her dance movements. While her left-hand guides her chair, she flips her right hand shoulder height. She has a dark brown complexion, curly shoulder length hair, and full red lips. Her pale blue hair matches the makeup on her curved eyebrows and contoured nose. The same blue expresses the movement of her wheels. She wears a low scoop neck dress. Bits of bright lemon-yellow paint highlight her arm, knees, leg and foot.
-description by Teri Grossman
Facing us against a brown background is a disabled performer in full drag, dancing in wheelchair. Expressive brushstrokes capture her dance movements. While her left-hand guides her chair, she flips her right hand shoulder height. She has a dark brown complexion, curly shoulder length hair, and full red lips. Her pale blue hair matches the makeup on her curved eyebrows and contoured nose. The same blue expresses the movement of her wheels. She wears a low scoop neck dress. Bits of bright lemon-yellow paint highlight her arm, knees, leg and foot.
-description by Teri Grossman
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