Toronto-born artist G. B. Jones (*1965) rose to prominence in the 1980s. In her queer punk magazine J.D.s she published so-called Tom Girls drawings, which then as now − albeit in a toned-down form − were subject to censorship in Canada due to their LGBTQ+ theme. Jones never let this stop her and produced other well-known drawing series such as Car Crash and The Last Woman On Earth. She created the term »queercore«, worked as a no-bugdet filmmaker and musician. Her visual art can best be classified as post-punk. The Organisation Kunstverein is showing GB Jones, the artist's first European solo show, in Amsterdam from 20 January to 1 April. The exhibition will be accompanied by a book that presents Jones' drawings and their censorship history in more detail.
The Kunstverein is a women-led non-profit organisation with locations in Amsterdam, Aughrim, Milan, New York and Toronto. Its trademark is experimentally curated exhibitions dedicated to avant-garde artists who − often unjustly − play only a minor role in art historiography.
