UNABASHED RELICS

UNABASHED RELICS: Queer Intimacies from the Art of Alex Blom + Jack Manion unites the romantic, queer subject matters of Blom’s print-making and Manion’s paper-cut illustrations to explore desire, attraction, and memory in creative processes. Working with personal photographs and materials, Blom emphasizes the power of intimacy and records it through a laborious action of etching, dye-sublimation, and silkscreen mono-printing, while Manion approaches the intimate form through illustrative collages pulled from public sources. The conversation formed between the two artists centralizes the encounter, recollection, and archival attitudes toward the intimate. Queer love and intimacy is an unabashed focus in the artists’ work, where moments of affection linger as visual relics. 

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The show ran from June 5th - June 29th at 742 E Market St, 2026.