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Brooklyn Rail IN CONVERSATION: Lola Flash with Amy Deneson
Lola Flash’s retrospective at Pen + Brush, 1986 to Present, honors creative activism at its finest. … This historic retrospective of seventy-one photographs spans a life of advocacy.
Qweerist
Photographer Challenges Stereotypes in Career-Spanning Exhibition.
Aperture
Flash’s germinal bodies of work continue to serve as an important touchstone for any student of photography, and certainly the lineage of art produced by black, queer women.
Duggal Connect – Art Scene
Photographer Lola Flash presents an engaging oeuvre of portraiture.
ARTNews
The solo exhibition presents work spanning three decades, including a cross-processed color photography series the artist made in response to the AIDS crisis.
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The artist is known for her often feminist-tinged work that challenges preconceived notions about race and sexuality.
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Flash focuses on upsetting normalized and oppressive standards of gender, age, and race.
Time Out Loves
For more than three decades, Lola Flash’s photos have challenged gender, sexual and racial norms. Nonprofit Pen + Brush hosts the first comprehensive exhibition of Flash’s photos.
A Photographer Who Has Spent Decades Capturing Queer Culture
Lola Flash wants you to see the world the way she sees it. “As an artist, I think that’s what I’m supposed to do,” she says. “I am supposed to invite the audience to see things the way I do.”
Lola Flash’s photography immortalises queer, black New Yorkers
We caught up with Lola Flash ahead of her first ever 30-year retrospective at New York’s Pen + Brush to discuss how photography once illuminated the height of the AIDS crisis, and how it continues as a tool of activism for queer, black communities today.