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Installation view of UNABASHED RELICS: Queer Intimacies from the art of Alex Blom + Jack Manion at Revelry Boutique + Gallery. June, 2026. Throughout the beginning half of this year, I began work curating an exhibition at Revelry Boutique + Gallery specifically intended to highlight artists from the LGBTQ+ community. As a retail gallery, Revelry presents local and regional artists through a market-driven platform, balancing exhibitions that resonate with Louisville audiences

The artist-curator is not simply someone who occupies two professions simultaneously. Rather, they practice a mode of cultural production in which making, researching, exhibiting, and interpreting become reciprocal acts of knowledge-making. Artists are founding exhibition spaces, turning their living rooms into open-house galleries, organizing independent projects and pop-ups, writing criticism, and constructing archives along their studio work.