Edie Fake Explained

Edie Fake
Alt:Edie Fake
Birth Place:Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Education:University of Southern California
Alma Mater:Rhode Island School of Design
Known For:Fine Art, Comics, Illustration, Author, Transgender Activist
Movement:Decorative Art, Queer Art

Edie Fake (born 1980) is an American artist, illustrator, author, and transgender activist. Fake is known for their comics/zines, gouache and ink paintings, and murals. Fake has an award winning comic-zine series about Gaylord Phoenix, a bird-like man that travels to different environments and has various lovers. He is currently based in Joshua Tree, California, after previously residing in Chicago and Los Angeles.[1] [2]

Early life and education

Fake was born in 1980 and raised in Evanston, Illinois.[3] [4] [5] In 2002, he received a B.F.A. degree in Film, Animation and Video (FAV) from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).[6] [7] After graduating from RISD, Fake worked as a negative cutter for approximately 6 years,[8] and started working in comics, collage and drawing, and translating their animation into two dimensional work because it was more accessible.

In 2015, Fake had been enrolled at Roski School of Art at University of Southern California (USC) and was one of the seven artists (nicknamed the "USC7") that dropped out of the school in protest of the mistreatment by the administration.[9]

Work

Fakes work uses visual abstraction in their work as an exploration of identity in the transgender and queer experience.[10] [11] The Gaylord Phoenix short comics series started in 2002.[12] In the illustrated book, Gaylord Phoenix (2010) there is expression of desire and transformation happening to a bird-like man in a dream-like, fantasy environment.[13]

In the illustrated book, Memory Palaces (2014), Fake reimagines the facades of historical queer spaces in Chicago in abstract, fantasy-like paintings of architecture, which are used as a metaphor for the transgender body.[14] Both with architecture and the human body, these exist as structures and present decoration and protective features, and both of these are vulnerability due to shifts in U.S. politics and social change.[15] [16] Additionally in the exhibition of the same name, Memory Palaces (2013), at Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago, there were a series of drawings titled "Gateway", where Fake pays tribute the death of his five artist friends, Mark Aguhar, Nick Djandji, Dara Greenwald, Flo McGarrell, and Dylan Williams.[17] [18]

Fake won the 2011 Ignatz Award for "Outstanding Graphic Novel" for Gaylord Phoenix.[19] [20] [21] In 2019, Fake was one of the guests of honors at MoCCA Festival by the Society of Illustrators.[22]

Exhibitions

This is a list of select exhibitions of Edie Fake's work, separated by the type of exhibition and listed by year of exhibition.

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Edie Fake: Off the Grid. Benson. Eben. Juxtapoz Magazine. en-gb. 2019-11-06.
  2. Web site: Episode 346: Edie Fake - RiYL (podcast). Listen Notes. June 23, 2019 . en. 2019-11-06. After stints in Chicago and Los Angeles, Fake currently resides in the California desert of Joshua Tree..
  3. Web site: Ever Get Turned on by Cooking Instructions? Comics Artist Edie Fake's Personal + Playful Exploration of Sexuality. 2018-07-12. Eye on Design, AIGA. en-US. 2019-11-06.
  4. Web site: Edie Fake. MacMillan. Kyle. 2018-12-01. Art in America. en-US. 2019-11-06.
  5. Web site: "Where's Their There?" — Visiting Artist Lecture with Edie Fake. 2018-03-16. Oberlin College and Conservatory. en. 2019-11-06. Fake was born outside Chicago in 1980.
  6. Web site: USC7 Artist Edie Fake's Gorgeous Drawings. 2015-06-08. artnet News. en-US. 2019-11-06.
  7. Web site: Questions of Queer Space. 2015. Our RISD. en. 2019-11-06. Edie Fake 02 FAV.
  8. Web site: You Can't Always Give and You Can't Always Take Edie Fake. Art21 Magazine. April 9, 2013 . en-US. 2019-11-06.
  9. Web site: USC Roski Fiasco Points to Wider Problems. 2015-06-05. artnet News. en-US. 2019-11-06.
  10. Book: Getsy, David J.. Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender. Yale University Press. 2015. 9780300196757. New Haven, Connecticut. 327.
  11. Web site: Translating Identity. Mautner. Chris. The Smart Set. Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University. en-US. 2019-11-06.
  12. Web site: CLOSE TO HOME: Spotlight on Local Artists at Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair 2015 - Edie Fake. 2015. Hammer Museum, UCLA. en. 2019-11-06.
  13. Web site: MoCCA Arts Festival Guests of Honor Announced. Milligan. Mercedes. 2019-01-23. Animation Magazine. en-US. 2019-11-06.
  14. Web site: With 'Gut Rehab' at Western Exhibitions, Edie Fake connects trans bodies with queer architecture. Hawbaker. K. T.. 2018. ChicagoTribune.com. 2019-11-06.
  15. Web site: Gut Rehab: Edie Fake's Elaborate and Maze-like Paintings @ Western Exhibitions, Chicago. Juxtapoz Magazine. en-gb. 2019-11-06. November 6, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191106065247/https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/gut-rehab-edie-fake-s-elaborate-and-maze-like-paintings-western-exhibitions-chicago/. dead.
  16. Web site: Artist Edie Fake explores gender identity and sexuality through architectural drawings. 2018-06-01. Archpaper.com. en-US. 2019-11-06.
  17. Web site: Edie Fake's Ecstatic Afterlives. Orendorff. Danny. 2013-01-11. Bad at Sports. en-US. 2019-11-06.
  18. Web site: Homage to a City's Queer History. 2013-01-11. Hyperallergic. en-US. 2019-11-06.
  19. Book: Hall, Justin. No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics. Fantagraphics Books. 2013. 9781606997185. Seattle, Washington. 309.
  20. News: The SPX 2011 Ignatz Award nominees are here.... 2011-08-18. Washington Post.
  21. Web site: Winners announced for 2011 Ignatz Awards. 2011-09-11. Cbr.com. 2019-11-06.
  22. Web site: 2019 MoCCA Arts Festival Guests of Honor Announced. Solan. Colin. 2019-01-23. Convention Scene. en-US. 2019-11-06.
  23. Web site: Art Wall: Edie Fake. 2019. BAMPFA. 2019-11-06.
  24. Web site: Current Exhibitions: Edie Fake Labyrinth. The Drawing Center. 2019-11-06.
  25. Web site: Edie Fake: Structures Shift. Everson Museum. 2019-11-06. November 6, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191106080854/https://www.everson.org/explore/past-exhibitions/edie-fake. dead.
  26. Web site: USC's MFA Student Dropouts to Show at New LA Non-Profit. 2016-04-06. Observer. en. 2019-11-06.
  27. Web site: AR: Edie Fake at Marlborough Chelsea. Contemporary Art Daily. 2019-11-06. November 6, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191106080844/https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2016/08/ar-edie-fake-at-marlborough-chelsea/. dead.
  28. Web site: Edie Fake. Thomas Robertello Gallery. 2019-11-06.
  29. Web site: Edie Fake's Memory Palaces dazzles. Berlatsky. Noah. Chicago Reader. May 11, 2014. en. 2019-11-06.
  30. Web site: Katherine E. Nash Gallery. Katherine E. Nash Gallery. Regents of the University of Minnesota. en. 2019-11-06.
  31. Web site: Queer Abstraction at Des Moines Art Center. Trusty. Rachel. 2019-09-17. ARTMargins. en-US. 2019-11-06.
  32. Web site: Queer California: Untold Stories. Oakland Museum of California. 2019-11-06.
  33. Web site: Beyond the Surface: Miriam Schapiro's Enduring Legacy Is on Full View at the Museum of Arts and Design. Selvin. Claire. 2018-04-24. ARTnews. en-US. 2019-11-06.
  34. Web site: Edie Fake. Institute for Contemporary Art. en-US. 2019-11-06.
  35. Web site: A Dazzling Decade. 2017. Johnson County Community College. en. 2019-11-06.
  36. Web site: Tomorrow Never Happens. 2016. Bucknell University. 2019-11-06.

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