California’s Queer Art History
with Ignacio Darnaude

Lecture

Saturday, August 10

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM 

$20 non-members | $10 students & seniors | Free for members

As part of Bakersfield's Second Saturday programming join art scholar Ignacio Darnaude, who is developing the docuseries Hiding in Plain Sight: Breaking the Queer Code in Art, as he introduces the artists who have created queer imagery hiding in plain sight throughout history. Inspired by the exhibition Resonantly Me, this lecture will also feature the work of current queer California artists and queer trailblazers from David Hockney to pioneering photographer Bob Mizer and Chicanx groundbreakers like Carlos Almaraz and Joey Terrill. Guests will hear how queer voices always have and will continue to shape both the art world and popular culture.  

 Subject to change.

Ignacio Darnaude is an art scholar and lecturer, whose expertise lies in deciphering the creative codes used by queer artists to express their forbidden desires during repressive times. 

Having carved a remarkable path in Hollywood’s studio system, Mr. Darnaude relinquished his roles as Head of International Marketing for Walt Disney Studios and for Sony Pictures to focus on his project “Hiding in Plain Sight – Breaking the Gay Code in Art,” which includes a documentary in the works, articles, lectures like this and his Instagram @breakingthegaycodeinart 

Some of his recent lectures include “Exploring Queer Art History through a Latin American Canvas,” at Long Beach’s Museum of Latin American Art, MOLAA;  “Don’t Say Gay – the Erasure of Queerness in Art,” for the Social Equity Conference organized by the University of San Francisco; a conference at New York Historical Society entitled “Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker” and the lecture “Picasso, Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali: Revealing the queer themes in their work” for UCLA and the Cervantes Institute. 

A regular contributor to the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review magazine, Mr. Darnaude was recently honored with an Arts Grant from the City of West Hollywood for his 4-lecture series about the impact of queer artists throughout history.