name: Gabriel Garcia Roman

project explored: queer icons

medium: photography & portraits

about the project:
Gabriel Garcia Roman transforms everyday queer people of color into saints, imbuing them with numismatic power and bringing out the emotional beauty inherent in their faces. By applying a chine-colle technique to a polymer photogravure print process, Roman references the style of Renaissance and Russian icon paintings. The technique and vision reveals the dignity of the everyday.