Displayed at Revelry during June 2026.
We are thrilled to introduce Alex Blom and artist Jack Manion for their first joint show at Revelry Gallery!
UNABASHED RELICS unites the romantic, queer subject matters of Blom’s print-making and Manion’s paper-cut illustrations to explore desire, attraction, and memory in creative processes. Working with personal photographs and materials, Blom emphasizes the power of intimacy and records it through a laborious action of etching, dye-sublimation, and silkscreen mono-printing, while Manion approaches the intimate form through illustrative collages pulled from public sources. His subject matter centralizes the presentation of allure, and visual condition of desire. The conversation formed between the two artists centralizes the encounter, recollection, and archival attitudes toward the intimate. Queer love and intimacy is an unabashed focus in the artists’ work, where moments of affection linger as visual relics.
About the Artists:
Born in Louisville, KY, Alex Blom (he/they) is a recent MFA Graduate in Printmedia from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). As a transdiciplinary artist, Blom’s work encompasses blown glass forms, wax casts from lovers’ undergarments, and the use of textile objects as both subject and substrate in the print making process. He is also the co-founder of Queer Impressions: an international printmaking portfolio project that highlights the dissemination of LGBTQ+ visual culture, lineage, and collective histories through means of exchange.
Jack Manion (he/him) is an illustrator based in Bellevue, Kentucky, working primarily in cut paper illustration. His compositions are created by cutting and layering cardstock and applying colored pencil to explore queer identity and presentation. His figurative illustrations emphasize the disparate components of the subjects’ presentations, carefully and joyfully suggesting the performative quality of queer identity.
 Lucas I, by Alex Blom |
 Lucas II, by Alex Blom |
 Lucas III, by Alex Blom |
 Self Portrait I, by Alex Blom |
 Self Portrait II, by Alex Blom |
 Self Portrait III, by Alex Blom |
Soft ground copper etching; spit bite aquatint, a la poupee on mulberry pouper chine-colle, attached to poplar hanging armature.
 Afterimage X, by Alex Blom |
 Afterimage XI, by Alex Blom |
 Afterimage XII, by Alex Blom |
 Afterimage VIII, by Alex Blom |
 Afterimage VII, by Alex Blom |
 Afterimage VI, by Alex Blom |
 Afterimage V, by Alex Blom |
 Afterimage IV, by Alex Blom |
 Afterimage III, by Alex Blom |
 Afterimage II, by Alex Blom |
 Afterimage I, by Alex Blom |
Silkscreen monoprint with fiber reactive dyes on dyed linen, dyed cotton yarn, stretched in handmade poplar artist's frame
 Threshold I, by Alex Blom |
 Threshold II, by Alex Blom |
 Threshold III, by Alex Blom |
 Threshold IV, by Alex Blom |
 Threshold V, by Alex Blom |
 Threshold VI, by Alex Blom |
 Threshold VII, by Alex Blom |
 Threshold VIII, by Alex Blom |
 Threshold IX, by Alex Blom |
Dye submlimation on polyester fringe with glass beads and cotton, attached to poplar wood
 Red 1, by Jack Manion |
 Red 2, by Jack Manion |
 Red 3, by Jack Manion |
 James, by Jack Manion |
 Ethan, by Jack Manion |
 Joan of Arc, by Jack Manion |
 Orange 1, by Jack Manion |
 Orange 2, by Jack Manion |
 Orange 3, by Jack Manion |
 Orange 4, by Jack Manion |
 Orange Gear, by Jack Manion |
 Yellow 1, by Jack Manion |
 Yellow 2, by Jack Manion |
 Yellow 3, by Jack Manion |
 Yellow 4, by Jack Manion |
 Aquaria, by Jack Manion |
 Boy Radio, by Jack Manion |
 Green Scarf, by Jack Manion |
 Green 1, by Jack Manion |
 Green 2, by Jack Manion |
 Green 3, by Jack Manion |
 Apollo, by Jack Manion |
 Self Portrait in Teal, by Jack Manion |
 Teal 1, by Jack Manion |
 Brandon, by Jack Manion |
 Colton, by Jack Manion |
 Blue 1, by Jack Manion |
 Blue 2, by Jack Manion |
 Blue 3, by Jack Manion |
 Blue 4, by Jack Manion |
 Blue + Purple in Bed, by Jack Manion |
 Atila, by Jack Manion |
 Purple + Gold with Bird, by Jack Manion |
 Purple on Cardboard, by Jack Manion |
 Purple 1, by Jack Manion |
 Purple 2, by Jack Manion |
 Purple 3, by Jack Manion |
 Purple 4, by Jack Manion |
 Pink 1, by Jack Manion |
 Evin, by Jack Manion |
 Pink Landline, by Jack Manion |
 Men at Work, by Jack Manion |