With multidisciplinary work from 18 trans artists, Alchemists explores how queer bodies, lives, and desires interact with and transform the natural world. The artists in this exhibition work with stone, clay, sunlight, metal, water, glass, fiber, and animal bones—hands shaping the earth to meet their needs. Lovers embrace in ocean foam; quilts piece together images of the Ozarks; heat-formed steel actualizes a previously impossible route of water. Throughout, trans artists and their subjects are revealed as alchemists, transforming natural materials into a holy sublime.
Featuring works by Earth Ængel, Sofia Klimkowski Arango, Cynthia Chang, Kaden Bard Dawson, James Parker Foley, Eden Imrie, Ryan Ketterer, Morgan King, Aida Lodge, Fe Lugo, Aullar Mateo, Duncan Richards, Asher Selle, Carter Shocket, Emma Smith, Summer Surgent, Giacomo Valerin, and Sage Vousé.
