In a time where the Rainbow Flag has become a ubiquitous symbol of LGBTQIA+ allyship, queer identities are facing increasing legislative efforts around the country looking to marginalize their expression. In Not Just Rainbows, Deidre De Franceaux and Gooch give us portraits of San Franciscans whose artistic self-expressions are joyful, empowering, and under threat.
Deidre DeFranceaux is a painter and sculptor residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her figurative paintings, portraits, sculpture, and kinetic sculpture installations are nationally exhibited and widely collected. Her portraits of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and Harvey Milk developed out of a need to reflect on joy and inspiration during a period of personal loss, social upheaval, and political disenchantment.
San Francisco photographer Gooch has been documenting the disenfranchised sub-cultures of our time: the dynamism of street art and the artists who create it; the recent LGBTQIA+ political struggle with marriage equality and gender identity; and the LGBTQIA+ performing arts community. Gooch seeks to memorialize these fragments of society in spite of transitory culture.