Erik von Detten is a collage, sticker, and mixed-media installation. This is one of the first activations of the Doyle’s Lobby Gallery; following the ceramics of Kevin Myers’ Red Wall. The installation represents a rejection of taste and restraint: the exploration of a queer, tropical, feminist, utopian imagination—the pleasure of looking at color and male forms. Through cutting and overlapping, Austyn de Lugo-Liston confronts and transforms social media censorship of queer bodies.
Curated by Dakota Noot, Acting Director, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion
About the artist
Austyn de Lugo-Liston (he/him/she/her) is a Los Angeles-based artist. He received his BFA in oil painting from the American Academy of Art in Chicago in 2014, and his MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2017. de Lugo-Liston was the Summer Artist in Residence at the Fundacíon Sebastian in Mexico City in 2017 and a Teaching Artist Fellow at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena for the 2017-2018 school year. His work has been shown in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Concurrent exhibitions: Julia Bui: The Couch Surfing Paintings and Seriously? Art and Humor for Challenging Times?
Follow Austyn de Lugo-Liston: @austynliston
Exhibition runs: Oct. 31 - Nov. 30
