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In Dragging Away Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and
material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists,
showing how they use abstraction as a queering tactic for social
and political ends. Through a process Lancaster theorizes as a
drag-dragging past aesthetics into the present and reworking them
while pulling their work away from direct representation-these
artists reimagine midcentury forms of abstraction and expose the
violence of the tendency to reduce abstract form to a bodily sign
or biographical symbolism. Lancaster outlines how the geometric
enamel objects, grid paintings, vibrant color, and expansive
installations of artists ranging from Ulrike Muller, Nancy Brooks
Brody, and Lorna Simpson to Linda Besemer, Sheila Pepe, and
Shinique Smith offer direct challenges to representational and
categorical legibility. In so doing, Lancaster demonstrates that
abstraction is not apolitical, neutral, or universal; it is a form
of social praxis that actively contributes to queer, feminist,
critical race, trans, and crip politics.
In Dragging Away Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and
material innovations of contemporary queer and feminist artists,
showing how they use abstraction as a queering tactic for social
and political ends. Through a process Lancaster theorizes as a
drag-dragging past aesthetics into the present and reworking them
while pulling their work away from direct representation-these
artists reimagine midcentury forms of abstraction and expose the
violence of the tendency to reduce abstract form to a bodily sign
or biographical symbolism. Lancaster outlines how the geometric
enamel objects, grid paintings, vibrant color, and expansive
installations of artists ranging from Ulrike Muller, Nancy Brooks
Brody, and Lorna Simpson to Linda Besemer, Sheila Pepe, and
Shinique Smith offer direct challenges to representational and
categorical legibility. In so doing, Lancaster demonstrates that
abstraction is not apolitical, neutral, or universal; it is a form
of social praxis that actively contributes to queer, feminist,
critical race, trans, and crip politics.
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