Fat Body of Work Christine Gaffney

Deja Patterson is a Mississippi native who is currently based in Queens, New York. She is a painter and photographer who addresses societal discrimination against plus sized women through her work. Voluptuous women are prominent in her examinations of body image, race and sexuality.

Anne Sturgeon is a nonbinary artist based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. They currently attend the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) where they are pursuing a Bachelor’s in fine arts. Their current work Please Give Me Room (To Exist) exists in two separate photo series and focuses on the experience of being non-binary and what it means to exist in this body, and what it means to be in a cis-hetero presenting relationship. They document both the mundane and moments where their body needs to take up space, creating photos that are uninhibited. This work follows their journey to become comfortable in their body, questioning what non-binary looks like and how they can normalize their own body creating a space in which it can exist in.