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I MEET Cole in Yerba Buena, where the party is already in full swing.

INDUSTRY BABY – Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow

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I’m showing my new series, The Other Gender. This one isn’t drawn from

my past. It’s an examination of female empowerment through the

iconography of the ages. I’ve painted gender-swapped versions of Attila the

Hun, Alexander the Great, Suleiman the Magnificent. I’m showing the

history of the world if women were the only species. Marilyn Monroe sings

happy birthday in her see-through dress, dancing on the lap of a female JFK

who smokes her cigar with all the same lust in her eyes, but a sense of

playfulness too, mutual enjoyment.

The music blasting from the speakers is nothing like my last show: it’s

boisterous, confident, triumphant.

Because that’s how I feel.

I’m on top of the fucking world right now. I don’t need to wait to hear what

everyone thinks of my show. I fucking love these paintings. I loved every

minute of making them. I put them out with overflowing pride, with

confidence that everyone who saw them would feel something: they’d feel

what I felt painting them.

Every woman who walks the galleries is laughing and pointing out their

favorite images to their friends.

I’ve deliberately invited every woman in this city that I admire. I want them

all here, celebrating who we are and what we can accomplish.

It’s not about wishing we were JFK. It’s about planning how we WILL be, in

the not-too-distant future. The next person who stands behind the presidential

pulpit and gives a speech that enlivens the heart of the nation won’t be an old

white man.

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