Rosebud Gallery & @_elvis_on_velvet_ invites you to our 3rd Annual Affordable Pride Show 🌈 100 artists. One queer-ass gallery. All artwork priced $399 and under. With folks trying to erase, silence, and take our queerness, we decided to go BIG and pack these walls with 100 Incredible Queer Artists & keep the show affordable and accessible for our community. Come celebrate queer art, queer joy, queer rage, queer love, and queer community at the first official Pride event of the season!!! We’ve done the work, now we’re asking y’all to show up and support local queers with your queer presence.

🌹 Rosebud Gallery
📍 839 Larkin Street

Alta Organic Coffee 2712 Mission St Santa Cruz CA
9 am -1 pm

📍Martin Wong Gallery — SFSU, Fine Arts 195
🗓️ February 9th to 13th ⏰ 12-4 pm

Sordid Gaze explores the experiences of chronic migraine and coming of age between the years of 2018-2020 during Trump’s first term and the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. These years were formative at the ages of 18-20, and were often used as an outlet for pain, emotional stress, and as a means to understand the world changing around me. The pieces reflect the struggle with chronic pain, depression, anxiety, and discomfort. While also examining the politics of 2018 that normalized violence, racism, and corporate greed—emphasizing the issue of selling personal data through social media apps and media addiction, touching on violence overseas, pollution, and climate change. These pieces are still relevant today during Trump’s second term, underscoring how current events and politics affect our mental and physical health and the strength of local communities.