Iconic at the Lexington Club
Opening Reception Tuesday, May 9th from 7 - 9 pm
3464 19th St. (between Mission and Valencia)
Mission District, San Francisco

Show continues through June 16th



"please me, please be mannish, do please me" Cut wood panelling. 4 ft x 5 ft. Quote is from Gertrude Stein's essay "An Exercise in Analysis" written in 1917.




Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas are one of the famous most famous lesbian couples of all time. Interestingly, they both grew up in the Bay Area and Alice was a survivior of the 1906 earthquake. They met in Paris just after the earthquake and spent the rest of their lives there. Gertrude became famous for her modernist writing style, which was as incomprehensible at the time as Picasso's cubist paintings. In amongst her writings, there are glimpses of her relationship with Alice, which was an open secret at the time.

The wood panel collages in the show are inscribed with quotes from Gertrude's writings which speak to her intimate relationship with Alice, and which are surprisingly contemporary considering they were written almost one hundred years ago.

The show also includes smaller, embroidered pieces which each capture an image from a tattoo of a famous lesbian.



The tattoo embroidered here belonged to Portia de Rossi. It was a ring tattoo which incorporated the initials of her former girlfriend Francesca Gregorini. She had the tattoo removed when she became Ellen Degeneres' partner.