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In the Galleries: Identity and Representation
Andy Macasil's and Kellan Shanahan's art and sculpture explores identity and self expression at the Advocate Gallery in Los Angeles.
 Christopher Harrity
          
          Jun 06, 2012
          
        
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Christopher Harrity is the Manager of Online Production for Here Media, parent company to The Advocate and Out. He enjoys assembling online features on artists and photographers, and you can often find him poring over the mouldering archives of the magazines.
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Gestalt, organized by Lia Halloran, showing now through July 7, is an examination of identity and cultural expression through the work of two graduating Chapman University BFA candidates at the Advocate and Gochis Galleries at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center at Ed Gould Plaza.

Andy Macasil's rich feminine-style nude paintings (above and on the next page) investigate self-representation and examine components of masculinity in the "chubs" and "bears" gay subculture.

The larger-than-life wood sculptures of Kellan Shanahan address the relationship between identity and Western ideology, challenging the established tropes of traditional figurative sculpture and pulling apart their cultural rhetoric.
Pixelated Bust, and Standing Figure, by Kellan Shanahan

        
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In the Galleries: Identity and Representation

Andy Macasil's and Kellan Shanahan's art and sculpture explores identity and self expression at the Advocate Gallery in Los Angeles.

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