About the Artists
Pierre Gour (left) and Garth Amundson
Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour work as a collaborative team, their work explores the perceptions and politics surrounding the domestic sphere and identity. Using collage and photo-scanning techniques, they speak metaphorically about social construction. Some of their work is literal collaboration, and at other times, they serve one another in a support role. Amundson holds an MFA from Syracuse University and Gour from the UNM. Their work has been exhibited in South Korea, Spain, Sweden and throughout North America. They have completed several residency programs; Sculpture Space in NY, Cimelice Castle near Prague, Fundación Valparaíso in Spain, Lademoen in Norway, Bellagio Rockefeller Center in Italy, and a Fulbright in Mexico.
“Amundson and Gour have been engaged in a long-standing recuperative effort, producing an affirmatively out, openly queer art decades before it was politically safe to do so. Their pioneering efforts not only originate in a queer response to the hostile erasure of our collective history, but they pursue this recuperation in a notably queer way, namely through scouring and sifting the past for its unrecognized signs of queerness, those quietly coded, easy to overlook bits of evidence that produce in queer observers a sudden sense of familiarity or jolt of acknowledgment.”