Shaping a global survey of LGBTQ+ artists from the last fifty years.
About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art

Publication design, art direction, typography

Clients: Monacelli Press, Wrightwood 659

2024

256-page catalogue with texts by Julian Carter, Anthony Cianciolo, Amelia Jones, Jonathan D. Katz, Ava L.J. Kim, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Christopher Reed, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Dagmawi Woubshet; Hardcover, 9.5 × 11.5"

Typefaces: Founders Grotesk (Klim), Neue Haas Grotesk (Commercial Type)





RESEARCH

MARSHA P. JOHNSON AND GAY LIBERATION FRONT WOMEN DEMONSTRATE OUTSIDE CITY HALL, NEW YORK, 1969
Act up. How Many of Us Will Be Alive For Stonewall 35? 1992–95. Poster. 
Avram Finkelstein, Brian Howard, Oliver Johnston, Charles Kreloff, Chris Lione, Jorge Socarrás. Silence = Death. 1987. offset lithograph
MARSHA P. JOHNSON AND GAY LIBERATION FRONT WOMEN DEMONSTRATE OUTSIDE CITY HALL, NEW YORK, 1969





Book design




In seeking to curate a collection of queer art celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Stonewall, we grappled with how to resist the very categories in and through which that anniversary came to signify.


Jonathan D. Katz, art historian and curator