Selected Press

  • "These stories of looking are also about witnessing—here too we, as viewers, are forced to realize our stakes in representation."

    — Variable West

  • "subverts traditional notions of both these male spaces by depicting them as places used by a predominantly female cast of characters and their desires."

    — San Antonio Magazine

  • "What’s it all about? Queer lineage."

    — Artforum

  • "An Exhibition Mines the History of SoCal’s Gay Motorcycle Clubs"

    — Hyperallergic

  • "functions more as a self-conscious throwback during an era of widespread gay visibility, and suggests that this very visibility will eventually be a corrosive force for queer subcultures."

    — Contemporary Art Review

  • “an archive of safe spaces,” Lerew says of the collection. “[These were] sites of solidarity. Many of them are gone now and [the matchbooks] are the only record they ever existed.”

    — The LA Times