Joseph Abbati

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The San Francisco Examiners ran an article today featuring the LARGER THAN LIFE exhibit at Senator Scott Wiener’s office. http://www.sfexaminer.com/?p=175189

LARGER THAN LIFE, my tribute to San Francisco drag queens, will be on view at the office of California State Senator Scott Wiener, in San Francisco, for the month of June to help celebrate Pride 2017.

Happy Pride!

My portrait of Edward Sotomayor Jr. will be part of this exhibit at Fort Mason honoring the victims of the Pulse Nightclub attack.

https://fortmason.org/event/pulse/

A new series I’m working on, “Forma Humana”, combining portraits with organic shapes.

P1XELS.com interviewed me following the LARGER THAN LIFE exhibit of mine. We talked about the tapestries, as well as the history of drag queens and the iPhone photos that were part of the exhibit.

Click here for the complete interview as well as the “DRAG SFO” video and profiles of the drag queens for the exhibit. http://p1xels.com/portr…/larger-than-life-with-joseph-abbati

Sketchy

In my spare time I like to sketch on my iPhone using Adobe Sketch. This is a series of “scruffy” sketches from images found on Instagram.

LARGER THAN LIFE is a solo exhibit of Joseph Abbati’s portraits of San Francisco drag queens turned into large scale tapestries. Those featured included well known drag queens who have contributed to the LGBTQ community: Sister Roma, Heklina, Peaches Christ, Honey Mahogany, Juanita More!, Creme Fatale, Grace Towers, and Juicy Liu. The exhibit had an opening reception on March 3 and will be exhibited throughout the month at Strut, 470 Castro St., San Francisco.

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