Closing Reception EDEN V Performances: Ron Athey Jesse Clark Van Jazmin Emily Lucid Mz Neon & more Curated by Emily Lucid & Matthew Brannon In the beginning, everything was trans. In the beginning, everything was queer. The fifth iteration of Emily Lucid’s curatorial series EDEN- founded and curated by Lucid andc, will feature a group of artists working across disciplines. Thematically the work exhibited will branch around notions of intersections of transness, queerness, the divine and the organic. EDEN is a collaborative benefit for The Trans Latin@ Coalition, an organization dedicated to advocating for and directly supporting transgender people of color as well the trans community at large. Through imagining the start, one delineates their vision for the future. In a moment of shutting down, boarding up, locking doors, delusional nostalgia, and conservatism, In a cultural moment of facing the end of transness and queerness as we know it; EDEN is a meditation on potential beginnings. EDEN blooms with the delicate rage of the flowers with art by B. ANELE ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS AND HONEY DIJON RON ATHEY LOVE BAILEY BECK+COL JONATHAN BERGER MATTHEW BRANNON GWYNETH BULAWSKY JESSE CLARK EARTHEN CLAY AND EM ROONEY OSCAR CORONA MARCEL CASTELLANO VAGINAL DAVIS NAT DECKER PATRICK JAMES DONOVAN RUBEN ESPARZA MICHAEL ESPINOZA LUKA FISHER WESLEIGH GATES PAIGE GRECO MAS GUERRERO GORDON HALL MADDY INEZ HUNTREZZ JANOS LARRY JOHNSON WILLIAM E. JONES HEDI EL KHOLTI YOUNG JOON KWAK VAUGHAN LARSEN LIZ LEE EMILY LUCID DIEGO LUCIANO MACIAS CADE MOGA JOE MAMA-NITZBERG MATTHIUS PACO MAY EDUA MERCEDES MARCEL HUMBERTO MONROY OAT MONTIEN, RB (POODLE) MORAN, MZ NEON NIKKI OCHOA SUNG HWAN PARK PAU S. PESCADOR CICI RECIO KYLE PATRICK ROBERTS JAKLIN ROMINE FRANCIS RUYTER SAMARA 66 FORREST SCHERER MIN JI SON EMJI SAINT SPERO KAYLA TANGE, ANTIGONI TSAGKAROPOULOU THANOS VALENTINE SAMMIE VEELER CARMEN WINANT AND RAFAEL STETTNER DORIAN WOOD DAGGER WOUND JASON YATES DEMIAN DINE YAZHI AND RUBY ZARSKY Benefits the TransLatin@ COALITION IN THE USA