Joey Terrill: Chisme y Memorias presents ten paintings unfolding as memoir and social history drawn from decades within queer, Chicano, and artistic communities. Shaped by the artist's recent milestone of turning seventy, the works move between the rituals of grief surrounding the AIDS crisis and the enduring relationships — particularly with women — that have sustained his creative life. Self-portraits capture intimate moments of gossip with poet Marisela Norte in 1984 East LA and with Joan Quinn in Tucson at seventy; paintings of New York mark Lennon's murder, street life on West 57th Street, and the communal mourning of a generation. Throughout, Terrill positions himself as witness rather than hero — navigating love, loss, and the persistence of chosen family.
