Queer World
Icelandic-U.S show about identity and place comes to Metro Gallery

By Evan Serpick
Published: July 25, 2012

http://citypaper.com/arts/visualart/queer-world-1.1347896

Jaimes Mayhew went to Iceland on a Fulbright scholarship last year to study artistic responses to energy production—what better place than the world capital of geothermal and hydroelectric power? But as a transgender man, he quickly found himself taken with the way queer identity is affected by place and how that dynamic was reflected in the work of Icelandic and American artists.

"I started looking for transgender artists—and having a hard time finding them—and thinking about how different their experiences would be," says Mayhew, who received his MFA from UMBC. "There are only 300,000 people in Iceland, and only so many of those are going to be artists, and only so many of those are going to be practicing queer artists."