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nother piece to look out for is mixed-media
cate shell beads that spell out the words “Radiating
what to do with it in this culture and, at my age,
artist Mar Goman's. “1 make art out of every
the pain.”
realizing that as you and your partner retire, you
in there that are kind of fun," Carrigan says. “It has
thing that doesn’t move,” the 59-year-old says. For
“Everyone experiences pain in their lives,”
a gay theme. It’s not an in-your-face gay theme. If
this particular piece, Goman cut painter’s linen
Goman explains. “It’s sort of a part of the human
you start to look at it, you realize that there’s gay
stained with wax into the shape of a dress and sewed
condition, but I think gays and lesbians, particu
Goman says she and her partner are eager to file
plots in it that you can kind of read.”
on shell buttons of varying hews from very dark at the
larly those growing up in my generation, and still,
for a domestic partnership under the new Oregon
Carrigan’s artistic career has been sporadic since
center to soft, pearly shades as they fan out from the
I mean it’s not over yet, they have a lot of pain...
Family Fairness Act. She sees the City Hall art
he was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 1987.
center of the piece. Also sewn to the dress are deli
I mean, figuring out your sexuality and figuring out
show as an important element in the movement
don’t have any fucking rights! That pain keeps
coming back in different ways."
“Thanks to the medicines and all the help 1 got
toward full equality.
from Project Quest and stuff, 1 feel like I got,a sec
“Last year was the
ond chance and I do get to do it all over again and
first time this show
1 kind of relish life itself,” he says. “I want to put
happened, and they
something that I did back into life in that way, and
sort of decided that
art is my way of doing it.”
June would be queer
Carrigan says he doesn’t show his work often,
month
because
it’s
although he was just featured in the Alberta Art
Gay Pride and every
Hop and has a solo show premiering next month at
thing. So, I’m assum
the Tea Zone. His partner, Tabor Porter, also has art
ing and hoping that it
in the City Hall exhibit.
will happen every
year," she smiles. ©
P ortland C ity
H all celebrates Pride
Month with an exhibit
of queer artists June 7
to 30 at 1220 S.W.
Fourth Ave. An
opening reception
will be held from 5 to
7 p m. June 7.
J ulie S abatier is
a Portland freelance
writer and radio
Jennifer Billig is returning to her home state
of Arkansas this fall to be closer to family.
producer.
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