Celebrate Pride Month with artist features, top art collections and more. Hear from and discover your favorite artists below and empower creativity by shopping collections featuring work by LGBTQIA+ artists.
Featured Artist: Lane and Lucia
"For me, art and queerness go hand in hand. An integral part of both is honoring your authenticity in a really unique way. There is a drive to create, to feel, to challenge. To take something so precious and personal and to share it out into the world- because you have to express it. Being queer & transgender is a beautiful experience that weaves its way through all of my artwork, and I’m so proud to share it."
Westley is an artist who works across multiple mediums. His illustration shop, Lane and Lucia is celebrating a big milestone this summer - it will be turning 10 this July! He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife & their dog. When he’s not making art or writing he loves to travel, learn new things & collect cool rocks.
Featured Artist: Kim Leutwyler
"I create paintings of LGBTQ+ identified and allied people. My work explores the concepts of glorification, objectification and modification. Throughout the work I push and pull the boundary between realism and abstraction, highlighting the layers and complexity of identity, gender and beauty."
Born in America, Sydney-based Kim Leutwyler migrated to Australia in 2012. She works in a variety of media including painting, installation, ceramics, printmedia and drawing. Leutwyler's current body of work features paintings exploring notions of beauty, gender and queer identity. Some of Leutwyler's recent accolades include being selected as a finalist in the Archibald and Sulman Prizes, the Doug Moran Portrait Prize as well as the Portia Geach Memorial Award. Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums globally.
Featured Artist: Danny Brito
Danny Brito is a Queer, Cuban-American illustrator who was born and raised in Miami. He creates vintage-inspired kitschy and contemporary illustrations that are a blend of colorful, cute and whimsical in style.
Featured Artist: C Livingston Photography
"I am constantly drawn to the elusive places where color hides itself, as if it were playing a game of hide-and-seek. I have an unrelenting awareness of the ways in which color nestles itself within our world, akin to precious gemstones just waiting to be discovered. Within each of my photographs, color becomes my chosen language, allowing me to elicit a sensory experience that resonates deep within. I yearn for you to feel the embrace of deep green shadows in the pit of your belly, and to feel the tingle of rich golden light in your palms. For me, color is an understated yet profound form of communication, an invisible thread that binds us all. Color is the fuel that drives my creative eye– and lucky me, it’s everywhere!"
C Livingston is a visionary photographer and visual-thinker hailing from the vibrant city of Seattle, Washington. With an unwavering passion for human-ness, Livingston’s work shines a light on the unique beauty and interconnectedness of the world. Their refined sense of traditional photography tools like color, contrast and framing invites viewers into a realm where reality meets imagination and romance is found within the ordinary. In particular, C’s work harnesses the power of natural light to imbue their images with a captivating touch of subtle surrealism. Each image, no matter the subject, feels as if there is more to the story.
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