FETCH FAVES: GERTRUDE'S QUEER ICONS

This June, Gertrude the Art App is launching the Queer Icons collection, an online exhibition celebrating the cultural contributions of LGBTQ+ artists, figures, and community, featuring artworks that depict or draw inspiration from LGBTQ+ people, places, and objects. Fetch's staff picks celebrate the artists that were invited to interpret this theme freely, resulting in a diverse array of artworks spanning multiple mediums and subjects.

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Daisy Culleton |Writer Rosemary Jane Cronin, Seven of Diamonds, 2025

Rosemary Jane Cronin, Seven of Diamonds, 2025

They say a photo tells a thousand words, but in this case, a smudged lipstick, a playing card, and a boudoir photo whisper just one intimate secret.

Rosemary Jane Cronin’s Seven of Diamonds (2025) is titillating, salacious, and oozing with a type of femininity that makes you want to lean in and inhale. It’s so evocative, you’re certain you can almost smell the sweet, musky aroma of a fresh bouquet of roses and the powdery notes of the lipstick itself.

Joaquin Baerga | Writer Neil Haas, Genet, 2025

Neil Haas, Genet, 2025

I completely relate to the excitement of discovering new voices. Getting into literature around my junior year of high school made life feel more colorful, like this painting. I remember how wonderful it felt to step into worlds like Magical Realism and learn about literary giants such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Haas’s ode to Jean Genet is beautifully vivid, with visible brush strokes that don’t fully cover his unconventional canvas: a discarded pizza box. I love the way he repurposes something seemingly worthless.

Arina Baburskova | Writer Constanza Pulit, Watering the plants, 2022

Constanza Pulit, Watering the plants, 2022

A half-remembered dream caught between tenderness and eroticism: Constanza Pulit writes a sapphic love scene in fog. Pulled from queer nightlife and reworked through layers of screen print, her work shimmers somewhere between memory and myth. Part real, part fantasy the image unfolds like a half-remembered encounter: blurred, feral and intimately tender - just how I like it!!

Victoria Comstock-Kershaw | Editor and Critic Daniel Rey, Scott, 2024

From left to right: Daniel Rey, Contigo Aprendí, 2024, Daniel Rey, Scott, 2024

Seeing the visceral intimacy of Rey's 2024 performance Collective Cuddles translated onto rough denim canvas feels deeply channeled. The 9 part series sees Rey's semiotics shifted from something bodily, gestural, and emotionally precise into material trace: soft, persistent, and affectively charged, quietly reclaiming male touch as something reverent rather than restrained.

Nzinga Audre | Director of Communications James Dearlove, Reclining Figure with Ectoplasm, 2024

James Dearlove, Reclining Figure with Ectoplasm, 2024

There's a bit of Freud and a bit of Bacon is this piece. The smokiness of the outlines, the perspective of the reclining figure, the weight of the lines around the face and toes... it's such an intimate, powerful piece.

Jay Bristol | Graphic Designer Maayan Sophia Weisstub, Untitled, 2022

Maayan Sophia Weisstub, Untitled, 2022

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