Gabriel Garcia Román transforms everyday queer people of color into saints, imbuing them with numismatic power and bringing out the emotional beauty inherent in their faces. By applying a chine-collé technique to a polymer photogravure print process, Román references the style of Renaissance and Russian icon paintings. The technique and vision reveals the dignity of the everyday.
At left: Andrew, 2013, photogravure with chine-collé, 8x10
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.
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.
