About

As an artist and student of art history, Anthony Sonnenberg’s multifaceted studio practice explores inner motivations for outer presentations of self. Throughout history and in present day, whether through appearance, clothing, adornment or home and garden design, the choices people make about their “decoration on all levels” hold important and consequential expressions of social standards of hierarchy. As Sonnenberg asserts within the framework of the Beauty Parlor exhibition, “through my own career and research of the history of visual culture, I came across queer artist after queer artist …