Zackary Drucker is an American trans woman artist, LGBT activist, actress, and television producer. She is an Emmy-nominated producer for the docu-series This Is Me and a consultant on the TV series Transparent, and an artist exploring themes of gender and sexuality and critiques predominant two-dimensional representations.
Documenting a six-year relationship with photos, video stills, letters, and ephemera, this book is a stunning, intimate, and wholly original visual narrative by two rising artists who “put[s] queer consciousness on the front burner.” Male becomes female. Female becomes male. Life becomes art. Private becomes public.
A major feature of the 2014 Whitney Biennial, this series of photographs that the New York Times called “extremely provocative” explores ideas of transformation both physical and psychological. It’s the story of two people in love, in a culture where the notion of gender has become more fluid and at a time when trans people have never been more accepted. As both subjects and creators of these images, Drucker and Ernst, both of whom transitioned gender, represent themselves in the midst of shifting subjectivities and identities.
Drucker has stated that she considers discovering, telling, and preserving trans history to be not only an artistic opportunity but a political responsibility. Drucker's work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, and film festivals including but not limited to the 2014 Whitney Biennial, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern art."
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