Essential to the understanding of queer art is the consideration of the world as a more complex, layered and dynamic place than often allowed for.

In partnership with Exposure: Edmonton's Queer Arts and Culture Festival, the Art Gallery of Alberta is pleased to present GET BENT, an exhibition of queer youth art, that allows artists to explore their (queer) identity through art.

Artists in this exhibition express new, understandings of identity and address what it means to be queer in Alberta at the start of the 21st century. Wary of ghettos, which isolate and stereotype, and suspicious of integration into heterosexual communities, today's young queer artists are creating a new place to situate themselves: in a post-Stonewall, post-ACT-UP, post-Matthew Shepard, post-Vriend, post-Homoglobalization world.

GET BENT represents art-making that moves forward in remembrance, on its own terms, to a new, radically queer(er) understanding of identity.

CLOSING RECEPTION
Saturday, December 1, 1:30 pm
Closing remarks by five-term City of Edmonton Councillor Michael Phair
Art Gallery of Alberta, Free Admission

MAKING QUEER ART WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Saturday, December 1, noon–4 pm
Art Gallery of Alberta, Free Admission