The Brilliance of Caitlin Cherry

The artist creates kaleidoscopic paintings of Black women, many of them luminaries like Cardi B. and Dominique Jackson.

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Welcome to a new GAYLETTER. In this edition we explore the work of artist Caitlin Cherry. Her colorful and erotically charged paintings were a joy to discover. Tyler Ackers spent some time getting to know Caitlin and writes about the artist in this week’s edition.

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PAINTINGS BY CAITLIN CHERRY

TEXT BY TYLER AKERS

While their spectral iridescence is reminiscent of gasoline splashed on pavement or the psychedelic images made by infrared cameras, Caitlin Cherry’s recent paintings are actually inspired by a phenomenon of glitching LCD screens.