UNABASHED RELICS: Queer Intimacies from the Art of Alex Blom + Jack Manion
We are thrilled to introduce Alex Blom and artist Jack Manion for their first duo-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. 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.
The show will be on view June 5th-June 29th, 2026.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Alex Blom (he/they): Born in Louisville, KY Alex Blom 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. Alex has completed residencies at the Art Gym Denver and at Kriti Gallery in Varanasi, India. Recent notable exhibitions include Catholic Gilt (Solo, Memento Mori Gallery, Denver), Rhythm Collision (Friend of a Friend), Denver.
Jack Manion (he/him): Manion is an artist based in Bellevue, Kentucky, working primarily in cut paper illustration. He has been included in exhibitions and public art projects across the country. 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.