My love letter to butches and mascs.
Ray Fleming is an interdisciplinary artist working out of Guelph and Hamilton. Creating tender, unabashed, and exciting artworks about the joys and sorrows of life as a gay trans person navigating the world while recalling a history larger than himself. All the while trying his best to be a good person to his friends, family, and community, by making art that is meaningful and hopeful to new and old generations.
Themes in Ray’s practice are joy, sadness, frustration, intimacy, and political activism. With a strong emphasis on zines and newsletters, he sources reference material from his own personal archive as well as public archives, contemporary artists, and queer history. Artists that have helped inform his work are G.B. Jones, Allyson Mitchell, Bob Mizer, Tom of Finland, and Faith Ringgold. He is also interested in the mass production of self published and DIY media in the pre-internet era. As Ray’s current body of work grows, public queer and trans archives have become tangential in his process.
Featured Work
Cock Quilt, Screen Print on Quilt, 2025
Knock Out Ron Henderson and Henry Nicols c. 1963, Pencil Crayon on Quilt, 2025
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