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Members’ Preview

Thu, Sep 8 / 7–8:30 pm

You're invited to the Members' Preview extravaganza!

Be the first to experience Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle, a multimedia exhibition of the fantastical costumes and performances created by the genre-defying artist and provocateur Matthew Flower, better known as Machine Dazzle.

The exhibition brings together more than 80 of the artist’s creations for stage, spectacles, and street theater, alongside various environments, ephemera, material samples, photography, and video.

Host Committee

Paula Al-Sabah
Hilton Als
Penny Arcade
Justin Vivian Bond
Charles Bush
Leslie Jackson Chihuly
Anthony Roth Costanzo
Caroline and Paul Cronson
Alan Cumming and Grant Shaffer
Duke Dang
John "Lypsinka" Epperson
Patricia Field
Joanna Fisher
Andrew Martin-Weber and Charlotte
Michael Musto
Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas
Davone Tines
Barbara Tober
Basil Twist and Kenneth Ard
Lynn Yaeger
Ann Ziff

Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle is generously supported by Leslie and Dale Chihuly. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.

Image—Machine Dazzle, 2019. Photo: Gregory Kramer.

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