SamLevi
Middleton-Sizemore.
queer and trans. artist and writer. disabled and creating. growing and making. haver and doer of many things and yet collecting more.

There is an inherent spirituality to the body, intimate touch, learning and loving the truest forms of yourself. Girlhood and years of church attendance is not antithetical to the artist’s queerness. These formative experiences didn’t limit or define what they would go on to make, but spiritually divined that they would be a maker. SamLevi's work is heavily influenced by the historical and cultural iconography of religion being juxtaposed by ideas of sexuality, gender, and disability justice. In making this art, they have become their own God. Their work also engages with queer and disabled joy as their queer, trans, disabled bodymind is a wonderous thing. The work spiritualizes this body, this variation, this thing made in the image of God. Highly informed and in conversation with gender/sexuality and disability studies, they often incorporate found text into the visual, do lots of historical and literary research before beginning any project, and are a huge fan of the public domain and archives.

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• Printmaking
• Digital Illustration
• Books
• Zines

• Sculpture
• Drawings
• Digital Design

Queer War / If I Die
CMYK silkscreen printed on paper | 9x12 inches | 2022
Image description: Halftone screen print. The print has text in the background that is largely covered up but which reads in part QUEER WAR: DO WE WANT A WAR? sourced from the zine Freaky Queers. Covering the text is Keith Haring’s “Unfinished Painting” (1987). In the midground is David Wojnarowicz in a jacket painted with a pink triangle and text reading IF I DIE OF AIDS - FORGET BURIAL - JUST DROP MY BODY ON THE STEPS OF THE FDA. In the foreground, ACT UP protest photo featuring signs that read READ OUR LIPS 11400 DEAD, WE DEMAND HEALTHCARE NOW, HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE, and ACCESS FOR ALL TO AIDS DRUG TRIALS.

how strange the moon seems / for Oscar
two color screen print based on Oscar Wilde's play Salome, and the opening lines of said play "how strange the moon seems"

Power to the People
relief carving and Franklin Gothic Extra Condensed wood type, printed on a Vandercook SP15

Handset wooden type and ornaments printed on a Vandercook SP15

The Changes Coming / Are Due To Last (diptych)
ink on photopolymer plate letterpress printed speckled french paper | 9x12 each | 2022
Text thanks to Mom, Adrienne Rich's "Change of World," and pharmaceutical labels. Photos thanks to Grandma.

Collection of pochoirs made with the following contraints:
- two colors
- maximum printed space of 4x6inches
- stamps must be carved from a single 4x6 block for all 10 prints
- all other shapes must be made using stencils, a bristle brush, and ink pad
Made in the fall of 2021

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