Deep Needle
In her solo exhibition DEEP NEEDLE, Chicago artist Angela Davis Fegan presents mixed-media portraits and letterpress posters drenched with queer desire. The 18 paintings and 200 letterpress prints collected in this feature range from antifascist political slogans, intimate self-portraits with a lover, and abstract renderings of life at the intersection of political identities.
Taking advantage of the gallery’s window displays that span entire corner of the building, Fegan transforms materials from her letterpress studio — including handmade paper, scraps from artist books, and ephemera from her Lavender Menace poster project — into a site-specific commentary on intersectional identity and its representation in printed and figurative media.
Rooted in resistance, particularly toward being made invisible or ignored, the works included in DEEP NEEDLE also speak to the “racial fault line” that co-prosperity’s Bridgeport location sits above; given the neighborhood’s history as a white enclave within a starkly segregated South Side of Chicago.