Edie Fake | |
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Born | 1980 (age 43–44) Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of Southern California |
Alma mater | Rhode Island School of Design |
Known for | Fine Art, Comics, Illustration, Author, Transgender Activist |
Movement | Decorative Art, Queer Art |
Edie Fake (born 1980) is an American artist, illustrator, author, and transgender activist. Fake is known for their comics/zines, gouache and ink paintings, and murals. Fake has an award winning comic-zine series about Gaylord Phoenix, a bird-like man that travels to different environments and has various lovers. [1] He is currently based in Joshua Tree, California, after previously residing in Chicago and Los Angeles. [2] [3]
Fake was born in 1980 and raised in Evanston, Illinois. [4] [5] [6] In 2002, Fake received a B.F.A. degree in Film, Animation and Video (FAV) from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). [7] [8] After graduating from RISD, Fake worked as a negative cutter for approximately 6 years, [9] and started working in comics, collage and drawing, and translating their animation into two dimensional work because it was more accessible. [9]
In 2015, he had been enrolled at Roski School of Art at University of Southern California (USC) and was one of the seven artists (nicknamed the "USC7") that dropped out of the school in protest of the mistreatment by the administration. [10]
Fakes work uses visual abstraction in their work as an exploration of identity in the transgender and queer experience. [11] [12] The Gaylord Phoenix short comics series started in 2002. [13] In the illustrated book, Gaylord Phoenix (2010) there is expression of desire and transformation happening to a bird-like man in a dream-like, fantasy environment. [1] [14]
In the illustrated book, Memory Palaces (2014), Fake reimagines the facades of historical queer spaces in Chicago in abstract, fantasy-like paintings of architecture, which are used as a metaphor for the transgender body. [14] [15] Both with architecture and the human body, these exist as structures and present decoration and protective features, and both of these are vulnerability due to shifts in U.S. politics and social change. [16] [17] Additionally in the exhibition of the same name, Memory Palaces (2013), at Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago, there were a series of drawings titled "Gateway", where Fake pays tribute the death of his five artist friends, Mark Aguhar, Nick Djandji, Dara Greenwald, Flo McGarrell, and Dylan Williams. [18] [19]
Fake won the 2011 Ignatz Award for "Outstanding Graphic Novel" for Gaylord Phoenix. [1] [20] [21] In 2019, Fake was one of the guests of honors at MoCCA Festival by the Society of Illustrators. [22]
This is a list of select exhibitions of Edie Fake's work, separated by the type of exhibition and listed by year of exhibition.
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After stints in Chicago and Los Angeles, Fake currently resides in the California desert of Joshua Tree.
Fake was born outside Chicago in 1980
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