DeLorme’s work features Tom Wilson Weinberg, a founder of Giovanni’s Room and The Philadelphia Weekly Gayzette, John Whyte, physician and activist (Tom and John have been together for over 50 years), and Arleen Olshan, original Program Coordinator of GCCP and past co-owner of Giovanni’s Room from 1976-1986. Scarlett DeLorme’s work is also featured in a virtual exhibition by the Dina Wind Art Foundation.
Scarlett DeLorme , Arleen Olshan: Portal, Ambrotype, 5x4", $400.00
Scarlett DeLorme , Arleen Olshan: Abide, Tintype, 7x5", $500.00
Scarlett DeLorme, Arleen Olshan: Reposed, Tintype, 7x5", $500.00
Scarlett DeLorme, John Whyte: Cartes, Ambrotype, 7x5", NFS
Scarlett DeLorme, Tom and John, Tintype, 7x5", NFS
Scarlett DeLorme, John Whyte, Tintype, 7x5", $500.00
Scarlett DeLorme, Tom Wilson Weinberg, Tintype, 7x5", $400.00
Scarlett DeLorme, Tom Wilson Weinberg: Cartes, Ambrotype, 5x4", NFS
Justin Jain, a queer first-generation Filipino performance and visual artist, honors LGBTQ+ ancestors through ceramic tiles bearing their names, and dispersing them amongst an installation of 1970s objects purchased at Philly AIDS Thrift.
Jain also created hand-built figurative ceramic sculptures inspired by photographs in Philladelphia Gay News from 1976. Reworking patriotic symbolism into cultural dialogue, Jain unsettles dominant national narratives while honoring both the queer radical past and its living present.
Justin Jain, Ancestor Tiles, 1976, 35 Tiles of Varying Shapes, Stoneware & Glaze, about 5x5" each, $250.00
Justin Jain, Rising Freedom II, stoneware & glaze, 13x4x3”, $900.00
Justin Jain , Kiss (Sodomy Bill Repealed), Stoneware & Glaze, 16x6x5” $1,000.00
"Sodomy repeal bill delayed!" Philadelphia Gay News, no. 6 (June 1976)
Periodicals collection
John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center
Section X Pullout!, Philadelphia Gay News, no. 7 (July 1976)
Periodicals collection
John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center
Justin Jain, At Ease (Spirit of ’76 Nude), Stoneware & Glaze, 5x15x8”, $700.00
Justin Jain, Spread Eagle (Section X Pullout!), Stoneware & Glaze, 16x14x8”, $800.00
Section X Pullout!, Philadelphia Gay News, no. 6 (June 1976)
Periodicals collection
John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center
Amy Cousins is an artist and educator from Houston living in Philadelphia who works across media, including printmaking, fabric, and sculpture to investigate queerness and its relationship to history, futurity, and desire. Her work particularly draws from radical queer archives and the playfulness historically wielded by these communities to combat oppression.
Most of Cousin’s work in this exhibition comes from her show, You Will Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Again at University Galleries of Illinois State University in 2017, which developed from research into protest ephemera, feminist newspapers, and first-person accounts of radical queer histories, especially including groups like Dyketactics!
Amy Cousins, Housing for the Lesbian Feminist Declaration of 1976 (detail)
Amy Cousins, Housing for the Lesbian Feminist Declaration of 1976
wood upholstered in patent leather vinyl and lavender shag with piping, buttons, and decorative tack strips; engraved brass plate, reproduction of The Lesbian Feminist Declaration of 1976 on newsprint, plexiglass, $1,200.00
Amy Cousins, Studies on Longing & Belonging (#1), screen print, 2017, 14x18", $200 (unframed)
Amy Cousins, Thousands, stabilo pencil on okawara paper, 2018, $3,000.00
Amy Cousins, Can't Stop Dancing, twelve-color lithograph, 2018, 21x26", $1400 (unframed)