Join us for a virtual curatorial talk and exhibition tour with Nathan Storey, the guest curator behind the 2025 Rough Gems exhibition, RUINS: PERFORMING QUEER HISTORY. Led by Union Hall’s Chief Curator, Esther Hernandez, we will be discussing the concept, inspiration, and selected works in the exhibition.
About RUINS
RUINS: PERFORMING QUEER HISTORY is an exhibition featuring six interdisciplinary artists with diverse backgrounds reckoning with queer histories, pasts, archives, legacies, and loss within their own contemporary studio practices. The artists in RUINS search for their fragmentary pieces and reimagine queer constellations as they unearth LGBTQ+ histories. They grapple with their collective pasts, allowing them to look toward queer futures. Artists include: Jessica Buie, Dillon Chapman, Cody Norton, Be Oakley, Kyle Quinn, and Alexander Richard Wilson.
RUINS will be on view through Saturday, February 15.
Nathan Storey
Nathan Storey is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, educator, and facilitator based in Boulder, Colorado. Storey’s work traces the relationship between printed matter and queer desire, memory, liberation, loss, and collectivity. Storey holds a BFA from New York University and an MFA from the University of California San Diego. He is currently an Instructor at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.
Storey has participated in exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego; 80WSE Gallery, New York; Mandeville Art Gallery, La Jolla; PS120, Berlin; Assembly Room, New York; Prattsville Art Center, Catskills; Espacio Negativo, Guadalajara; and the Houston Center for Photography, Houston. Storey’s work has been featured in MATTE Editions, Queer Aesthetics Journal, HereIn Journal, and the San Diego Union-Tribune.
In 2019, he founded SUBLIMATION, an artist-run space supporting multidisciplinary exhibitions by emerging artists in New York's Lower East Side. In 2024, he established UNDERTOW EDITIONS, an artist-run press supporting queer artists’ printed matter and ephemera.