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This is a handmade ceramic beast plate with dark yellow glaze.  The breast plate is clasped with dark red and turquoise beads and wood details.  

Measures 25in in length Ceramic breast plate Plastic dark red and turquoise beads Wooden beads

All the ceramic plates and beads are handmade by me

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Queer Icons as part of the Into Action exhibit that happened last month in LA.

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A time lapse video of me printing one of my Queer Icon images.  It is a polymer photogravure process with chine-colle.  

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small | precious | shiny | rebellion

a pointed redeployment of adornment + embellishment as identity & representation

Gabriel Garcia Roman | Embroidered patches & embellishments

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My Queer Icons work at The Cathedral of St John The Divine in NYC. Up til March 12th.

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WELCOME TO BEAUTIFUL THINGS, A QPOC INTERGENERATIONAL LOVE STORY. With a crew led by queer people, women, and people of color - the film follows a romance nuanced by motherhood with a Brooklyn backdrop. Help us bring this project to life with our Kickstarter! 

We’re excited to bring this story to you, but even give back to our community. Follow our Facebook page for notes, tips and tricks from professional creators. 

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Feeling myself

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Opened up an etsy shop and selling handmade ceramic necklaces.

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Jamal. 2016, From the series Queer Icons, Photogravure w/ Chine-Colle and silkscreen, 15x18, image size 11x14. Gabriel Garcia Roman

Text by Jamal T. Lewis

Freedom is inextricably tied to the power of creating one’s own image: in that we dare to create a new world’s, everlasting evidence that we existed; that we lived and loved and created and cried and fucked and screamed and gave birth to ourselves over and over again a complicated embrace.  That’s is me!

I love myself enough to be who I am every layer, every contour, every contradiction.  I love myself enough to be who I am: BLACK FAT GENDER TERRORIST.  A BLK FAG – Who won’t hush his-her mouth

Jamal T. Lewis is a cultural worker and emerging multidisciplinary performance artist living in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York, hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. He/She received a Bachelor of Arts in Music with concentration in Vocal Performance from Morehouse College, and recently received his masters in Media Studies at The New School.

Jamal's work interrogates and explores identity formation, ugliness, desire(ability), race, class, gender, and sexuality through a Black, queer, feminist, abolitionist lens. He/She is currently working on his/her first documentary film, No Fats, No Femmes; and, receiving submissions for his/her forthcoming varied anthology, Femme to Femme.

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#Repost @beyondpridebymic with @repostapp ・・・ Artist @gbrlgrcrmn created #QueerIcons, a photographic series that highlight queer and trans people of color who are artists, poets and activists. The series not only offers much-needed representation of QTPoC, but uniquely presents them in a historically religious style, with gold accents and halos around their heads. “This series has opened me up to such a large community of people who are fearlessly making things happen for themselves and the community,” Garcia Roman told Mic in 2015. Ultimately he hopes his work — and better representation of LGBTQ individuals in the art world, and in media — will allow others to become equally well-acquainted with these incredible individuals as well.

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“To My Father”  Installation shots of my first solo show at Gallery Aferro earlier this year.

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A little preview of the latest Queer Icon print

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So honored to have my work included in this amazing group show at such an iconic space like the Cathderal of St. John The Divine.  Opens this Thursday, Oct 6th from 6-8:30pm.  If you’re in NYC!  Stop by and say hello.  It will run until March 2017.

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Kia. 2016, From the series Queer Icons, Photogravure w/ Chine-Colle and silkscreen, 15x18, image size 11x14. Gabriel Garcia Roman

Text by Kia Labeija

Learn more about Kia’s work;  http://goodnight-trafficcity.com/

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Sagrado Corazon / Sacred Heart