"Idexa [Stern, the San Francisco-based tattoo artist] said to me just this past week, "What's interesting about you, Cathy, and about lesbian poker night, is that I think you have more communities than anybody I know. You don't stick with one group. You're not a posse person. You don't have to have a specific group of people around you to feel complete.""
"On a beautiful November morning in Los Angeles, I found my way to the Brewery, where Catherine Opie keeps her studio. I've known her since I moved to LA 20 years ago - indeed, the very fact of Cathy's presence here, as an LA-based artist, professor and queer householder, made the city feel more possible for me, when I was a bewildered exile from New York."
Catherine Opie, a prominent Los Angeles-based photographer and professor, is featured in an interview conducted by writer and artist Maggie Nelson to discuss her exhibition "Catherine Opie: To Be Seen" at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Nelson and Opie have a long personal history spanning two decades in Los Angeles, during which Opie's presence as a queer artist and householder made the city feel more welcoming to Nelson. The conversation explores Opie's work, including her notable portraits from the 1995 Domestic series. A key insight emerges through a comment from tattoo artist Idexa Stern, who observes that Opie uniquely maintains multiple communities without adhering to exclusive social groups or posses, distinguishing her approach to relationships and artistic practice.
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