Contents:
- ATLANTA GAY ARTIST’S QUT ENDS DISVERY OF KEH HARG ART
- ‘MAS’-TER THE MAKG: GAY ATLANTA ARTIST AJMAL MILLAR’S FIRST SOLO SHOW
ATLANTA GAY ARTIST’S QUT ENDS DISVERY OF KEH HARG ART
” —Betsy RileyShanequa GayPhotograph by Johnathon KelsoShanequa GayArtistIn March and April of 2020, Atlanta artist Shanequa Gay found herself on timeout wh the rt of the world. There, agast a stark whe wall, Gay pated happy imag of Taylor’s face, showg her as “someone who was loved and is worthy of jtice and beg seen. Bis planned exhibs at the Atlanta Contemporary’s Atlanta Biennial and Le Mon Bossale Montreal, Gay plans to spend the balance of 2021 ntug to look ward, g Kev Quashie’s The Sovereignty of Quiet, as a reference exhib ia that’s gradually takg form: the ways that Black women have rated their hom.
Matthew Terrell, noted wily Atlanta for his amazg photography work for the natnally crilly acclaimed “Legendary Children” exhib featurg many of the cy’s emergg drag queens, took his art another directn when he cid to rearch everythg he uld on Keh Harg, the world famo, gay and HIV-posive artist whose work is stantly regnizable. Snail for the HuffPost Gay Voice blog. (by Bo Shell) Middle: Filmmaker Milford Earl Thomas is currently filmg a gay zombie movie and also creat mixed media art for ‘stant gratifitn.
From silent film to gay zombi Born Huntsville, Ala., Milford Earl Thomas, 46, grew up the nearby small town of Arab knowg he wanted to be an actor — at least until the sixth gra. After attendg Sundance and tryg to get people terted his ser film work, Thomas said he cid to go the grosst way possible — a gay zombie movie.
‘MAS’-TER THE MAKG: GAY ATLANTA ARTIST AJMAL MILLAR’S FIRST SOLO SHOW
Named “Pretty Like Me, ” the film is about zombi who are betiful gay men who kill their victims by eatg their ass. But Thomas says the film is “not a gay ghetto film. The ma love story is between an elrly woman who is a profsor and a gay male stripper.
“There is a ltle b of gay muny mentary that go on. Thomas also spends a lot of time creatg art om old photos he llects of homoerotic scen and has some of his work on display at Youngblood Gallery and Homegrown Detur.
“The whole procs is kd of raw, and ’s lic, ” said the openly gay Millar, who rporat the tradn to his upg art show, “Pated Bodi + Pholourie, ” which tak place at his fay’s Caribbean rtrant, Calabash Alley, Detur April 28.