Overview
This lecture focuses on the photographic work of three American artists from 1990 until now — Catherine Opie, Tammy Rae Carland and Mickalene Thomas. Through close visual analysis and via themes of sexuality, family and exclusion, Dr Tilly Scantlebury explores how the tactics of each artist puts traditionally marginalised subjects on bold display. By situating the photographic works within their LGBTQ+ communities and the art historical canon itself, Scantlebury argues that each artist both uses and updates the history of art as a quotation — one that is enriched and enlivened through its queer subversion.
Please note that this lecture includes explicit and nude photographic imagery. Viewer discretion is advised.
Academic Profile:
Dr Tilly Scantlebury is an art historian and educator at The National Gallery and The Courtauld. Since completing their doctorate in 2021, Tilly has been delivering outreach workshops to adults and young people, which widen access to art history. Alongside public programmes, Tilly also writes and delivers lectures in their research specialism of feminist and queer modern and contemporary art at institutions such as Imperial College London and UAL.
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