In the Future We’ll All Be Fun

Alex M. Petersen’s solo exhibition, 'In the Future We’ll All Be Happy,' uses graphite drawings and acrylic paintings to speculate on how social media, virtual reality, and biohacking are changing the way we culturally identify. Alex focuses on post- humanism, emergent technologies, and how these movements affect sex and gender.

His content deals primarily on queer representation and identity through the lens of eroticized figuration, speculative technology, and culturally codified coloration and pattern. Petersen’s work translates line and color to large scale representational, mural-style, installations that can easily co-exist with, yet subvert, traditional notions of fine art presentation. In Alex’s words, “aesthetically engaging, and when successful, sexy AF”.

IC: Alex M. Petersen, 'They Took From Us Everything But Our Silence,' acrylic on paper, 60 in x 60 in, 2018