Join us Friday the 13th of June, 6 - 9 pm to celebrate the opening of Fairy Prince by ONE Archives artist in residence Halo Starling and our new collections show The Space We Take: Portraits from the Archive. The event will include a DJ set by DJ Silver, free tacos, Friday the 13th tattoos, libations, and good people.
This is a free event -- no RSVP is necessary for this event.
Fairy Prince
Fairy Prince presents a variety of new work based on his research on the Radical Faeries, particularly the New York Radical Faeries Collection and the Harry Hay Papers at the ONE Archives at USC. The radical faeries are a loosely affiliated worldwide network and counter-cultural movement seeking to redefine queer consciousness through secular spirituality and ecology. Rejecting hetero-imitation, the Radical Faerie movement began during the 1970s sexual revolution among gay men in the US and is now a thriving LGBTQ+ community with a strong trans contingent. Core to the radical faerie lifeway is stewardship of various land sanctuaries worldwide, operating continuously under a functional anarchy model. Fairy Prince will explore the concept of sanctuary, a central tenet of the radical faeries. To learn more about Fairy Prince and Halo Starling, visit the exhibition page.
The Space We Take: Portraits From the Archive
The Space We Take brings together a selection of portraits from the ONE Archives collection across a range of media, with many of them on view for the first time. From photography to intaglio prints and oil painting to assemblage, these works speak to the human instinct to depict ourselves and others as well as the desire to see ourselves in others. This show celebrates the diversity and range in artist and sitter alike and serves as a reminder of both our strength as a community and our historical longevity. We are proud to exhibit a selection of recent donations, including paintings by James Huber and Michael Hossner by Lee Draper, prints from the Fairoaks Project by Gary Freeman and Nick Macierz, and Arthur Tress photography donated by the Vein Family. The exhibition also includes work by Eve Fowler, Amos Badertscher, Nancy Rosenblum, Laura Aguilar, Logan Beckett, Marc Geller, Simon Gad, Mundo Meza, and Ricardo Reyes, among others. To read more about The Space We Take, visit the exhibition page.