For nearly thirty years, Kaucyila Brooke has excavated the lesbian bar scene across urban America and Europe. Their facades are varied—they range from discreet and confidential to unapologetic and expressive, yet their interiors are unified in serving as physical lifelines for an overlooked community to gather and thrive. Blending photography and archival research to confront the politics of cultural production and sexual representation, her work takes on an intimate psychogeographic lens tracing the ties between sexuality, sexual identity, memory, and the mutability of lesbian nightlife that allow these dimensions to exist.

Aurora Tang is a curator and researcher working at the intersections of Land Art’s legacy and site-specific installation, architectural criticism, history, photography, and the imperative of ground-truthing. (The term, borrowed from geography, means simply knowing places through firsthand experience of them.) Since 2009, she has worked for The Center for Land Use Interpretation, an organization that exemplifies all of the above, and is nearing its third decade of operation. Here, Tang discusses the multivalence of her work in land use phenomenology and education, the freedom of research, the significance of rephotography, and approaching landscape as readymade.

Since the 1990s Amy Adler has used film stills and photographs (her own as well as found) as the basis for her work, methodically drawing the existing images, most often in pastel. In the careful construction of her compositions, she stages scenes that buzz with a dynamic charge, even when depicting only a single figure. Jordan Karney Chaim examines Adler’s career, and its evolving relationship with images over decades.

Flora Africanus (D.C.) 2018, Two archival pigment prints in found frames and artist’s frames and UV laminate // 31 1/4 x 40 x 2 in © Todd Gray, 2019. Courtesy of Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles. I first met Todd Gray in 2015 when I served as the assistant…