Àirǎn Míngwáng / Dr. Wang – work in progress Lustful drag king? A shape shifter transforming trauma = passionate love & enlightened compassion
2023 - 2024
Los Angeles, California
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
Jerri Allyn is an activist artist, educator and scholar interested in civic engagement, exploring themes of social justice and empowerment. She/He often questions power structures, challenges gender norms, and addresses women’s labor, sexuality, queer rights, and resolving conflicts creatively.
Allyn’s interdisciplinary artworks are often in a storytelling form. S/heHe strives for aesthetic innovations, incorporating contemporary insights, historical facts, and satiric wit. Frequently collaborating, she/he utilizes site-oriented performance and installation art; sculptural tableaus; audio, video, billboards; artists books and graphic multiples—adapting each to suit theme and intention.
Allyn joins others in bringing a fresh lens to debates about sexual mores, dignifying the subjects through confident, elegant portraits. Allyn’s project Sex Celebrated: Expanding Erotic Power explores sex ed, body positivity, and sex workers’ rights. Allyn’s crafted photomontage banners uplift colleagues in pro-sexuality gigs. Vinyl prints advertise their events outside on lampposts, while fine-art prints hang from exhibit ceilings inside.
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2002
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2025
I embrace the objectives of feminist art to raise awareness, invite dialogue, and ultimately transform culture.”