Tammy Rae Carland
Queer Like Me, 2020

archival pigment print
21”H x 25”W

ARTwork statement:

The photograph ‘Queer Like Me’ is part of a series titled A ‘Rose is a Rose’. The work utilizes the symbols, tropes and objects of the legendary relationship between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Stein was raised in Oakland and Toklas in San Francisco. Their kinship, relational collaboration, queerness and moment in history is at the root of the work. They were a team of dualities - artist and muse, domestic and external, political and matriarchal, gender differences and sexual sameness. Using first edition Stein books and carefully collected porcelain roses the work is both embodying and illustrating the relationship of lovers and the social and political landscape they occupied.

ARTIST BIO:

Tammy Rae Carland is an artist who works with photography, video, sculpture, and small-run publications. Her work has been screened and exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. Her photographs have been published in numerous books, including The Passionate Camera: Queer Bodies of Desire and Lesbian Art in America, and she is a featured artist in Sarah Thornton’s book, 33 Artists in 3 Acts. She is represented by Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco.