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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.

Photographer Lola Flash presents an engaging oeuvre of portraiture.

The solo exhibition presents work spanning three decades, including a cross-processed color photography series the artist made in response to the AIDS crisis.

The artist is known for her often feminist-tinged work that challenges preconceived notions about race and sexuality.

Flash focuses on upsetting normalized and oppressive standards of gender, age, and race.

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.

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.”

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.

A not to be missed ode to the feminine flow of 25 artists who are diverse and complement each other well enough to say that “King Woman” takes the crown.

Pen + Brush’s partnership with ArtLeadHER is deeply rooted in our shared mission to provide professional female artists with a channel for acknowledgment and recognition.