Edie Fake

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Edie Fake
Born1980 (age 43–44)
Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Education University of Southern California
Alma mater Rhode Island School of Design
Known forFine Art, Comics, Illustration, Author, Transgender Activist
MovementDecorative 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]

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Early life and education

Fake was born in 1980 and raised in Evanston, Illinois. [4] [5] [6] In 2002, he 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, Fake 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]

Work

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]

Exhibitions

This is a list of select exhibitions of Edie Fake's work, separated by the type of exhibition and listed by year of exhibition.

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Publications

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