Ephemeral Housewarming
A Group Show
July 12 – August 17th

Eleventh Hour Art is pleased to present Ephemeral Housewarming, an all trans group show, July 12 – August 17, with an opening reception Friday, July 12 from 7-10pm.

Trans co-curators Alexia Catenazzo and Carter Shocket explore how fine art spaces can be used to catalyze queer community with a collection of works that touch on the transient and communal nature of queer placemaking/belonging, particularly surrounding the Home and the creation and maintenance thereof.

“Gay Bar” and “T4T” Plate by Jamie Wild

Queer, and especially trans, community has been historically forced into the margins, creating a notion of Home as a constant becoming and unbecoming, seldom tied to a specific location. Jamie Wild’s piece states bluntly, “they bulldozed the gay bar and now it’s a parking lot” encapsulating this dispossession so often imposed upon us by cis society. In a vacuum, this message might lead the viewer to despair, but beneath its ostensible pessimism lies the implicit fact that the gays are still here (if we weren’t, who’d be lamenting the gay bar’s destruction?). We are constantly making Home wherever we gather, whether it be in our dwellings, bars, bookstores, parks, streets, or art galleries.

During the run of the exhibition, Ephemeral Housewarming will host several events: an evening of trans writers on July 29th, a “Chess Salon” celebrating the launch of new community chess zine Forking Trans Women on August 8th, and a third, yet-to-be-disclosed event for the trans community specifically. Our aim with these events is to open up the gallery as a “third space” for people in the queer-trans community to exist together, outside of the standard channels of everyday society. 

Come out to our Opening Reception on Friday, July 12th to celebrate the work of twenty trans artists and be in community with us!

Featuring: Arden Henderson, Angel Pleasant, Ava Tuitt, Carter Shocket, Em Miller, Emma Smith, Forest Smotrich-Barr, Jealyn, Jamie Wild, Jesse Katz, Julian Prairie, Jules Magnus, Lucky Kernan, Mae Dessauvage, Mariquitx Bonomi, Nic Caldwell, Ryan Ketterer, Sheanni-Ra, Vivid Primrose, and Xhiba.

Please send all inquiries to: carter@eleventhhourart.com