Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst
Zackary Drucker (b. 1983) and Rhys Ernst (b. 1982), Relationship (Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, 2008). from the Relationship series, 2008–13. Chromogenic print. Courtesy the artists and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. This image is part of Drucker and Ernst's installation in the 2014 Biennial exhibition.
Drucker
Born 1983 in Syracuse, NY
Lives and Works in Los Angeles, CA
Ernst
Born 1982 in Pomona, CA
Lives and Works in Los Angeles, CA
For the 2014 Biennial, Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst present three collaborative projects. Ernst is a director and filmmaker; Drucker’s work as an artist spans photography, film, and performance. The photographs on view on the Museum's third floor,Relationship, are an intimate and diaristic record of their relationship as a transgender couple whose bodies are transitioning in opposite directions (for Drucker from male to female, and for Ernst from female to male). As both subjects and makers of these photographs, Drucker and Ernst engage various elements of self-fashioning, representing themselves in the midst of shifting subjectivities and identities—making images that are simultaneously unguarded and performative, an extension of their narrative filmmaking practice. Collectively, the photographs become a cinematic document of their romantic, creative negotiation and collaboration. In Drucker’s words, “Our bodies are a microcosm of the greater external world as it shifts to a more polymorphous spectrum of sexuality. We are all collectively morphing and transforming together, and this is just one story of an opposite-oriented transgender couple living in Los Angeles, the land of industrialized fantasy.”
On View
Third Floor, Lobby Gallery and Off-Site
Work by Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst is on view in the Museum's third floor galleries.
Their collaborative film She Gone Rogue (2012) will be screened in the Lobby Gallery, March 24–April 26.
As part of their contribution to the Biennial, Flawless Sabrina, an icon of drag performance who features in She Gone Rogue, will hold tarot card readings at her apartment the weeks of March 24–April 26. View the calendar for more information.
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Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, still from She Gone Rogue, 2012. HD video, color, sound, 23 minutes. Courtesy the artists
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Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, still from She Gone Rogue, 2012. HD video, color, sound, 23 minutes. Courtesy the artists
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Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, still from She Gone Rogue, 2012. HD video, color, sound, 23 minutes. Courtesy the artists
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Zackary Drucker (b. 1983) and Rhys Ernst (b. 1982), Relationship (Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, 2008). from the Relationship series, 2008–13. Chromogenic print. Courtesy the artists and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. This image is part of Drucker and Ernst's installation in the 2014 Biennial exhibition.
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ary Drucker (b. 1983) and Rhys Ernst (b. 1982), Relationship (Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, 2011), from the Relationshipseries, 2008–13. Chromogenic print. Courtesy the artists and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
2014 Biennial: Tarot Reading With Flawless Sabrina
Whitney Stories
Interview: Flawless Sabrina, Zackary Drucker, and Elisabeth Sherman
In the News
"In Their Own Terms: The Growing Transgender Presence in Pop Culture"
—The New York Times
