MOLAA Pride Series: Exploring Queer Art History Through a Latin American Canvas

Join us for an engaging lecture by Ignacio Darnaude! Renowned Latin American artists, such as Frida Kahlo and Claudio Bravo, all the way to Chicanx artists like Carlos Almaraz and Joey Terrill created astonishing queer imagery hiding in plain sight. Their coded images allowed them to express taboos and same-sex desire in a way that wasn’t punishable. Get ready to see their work as well as art history with completely new eyes. Wine and light refreshments served.

About the Speaker: Ignacio Darnaude is an art scholar and lecturer, whose expertise lies in deciphering the creative codes used by queer artists to express their forbidden desires during repressive times. Mr. Darnaude relinquished his roles as Head of International Marketing for Walt Disney Studios and for Sony Pictures to focus on his project “Hiding in Plain Sight – Breaking the Gay Code in Art,” which includes a documentary in the works, articles, lectures and his Instagram @breakingthegaycodeinart

Some of his recent lectures include “Don’t Say Gay – the Erasure of Queerness in Art,” for the Social Equity Conference organized by the University of San Francisco; a conference at New York Historical Society entitled “Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker” and the lecture “Picasso, Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali: Revealing the queer themes in their work” for UCLA and the Cervantes Institute. A regular contributor to the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review magazine, Mr. Darnaude was recently honored with an Arts Grant from the City of West Hollywood for his 4-lecture series about the impact of queer artists throughout history.