Jeffrey Cheung’s bright figurative work celebrates queerness within his personal life and within skate culture. He is a prolific maker, whose vivacious art examines freedom, identity, and intersectionality, through bold color and intertwined characters. Cheung’s figures stem from his homoerotic zine making practice and have grown into larger than life paintings. On canvas his playful androgynous characters fearlessly take up space, blend together and playfully unite in non-binary identities. His genderless body positive world questions the boundaries of sexuality, body, gender, and race. Cheung’s simplistic line-work of gender nonspecific bodies offers a clever yet loving response to the heteronormative male gaze creating a more inclusive and accessible entry point.

Jeffrey Cheung is a Bay Area based, Chinese-American artist. He graduated form the University of California Santa Cruz, and has since shown in a variety of shows throughout the Bay Area as well as City Bird Gallery in Paris, France. Alongside his visual artwork, Cheung is the co-founder of Unity Press and Unity Skateboarding, a queer skating collective. He also plays music in both local punk bands Meat Market and Unity. Cheung currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.

Pave by Jeffrey Cheung
at New Image Art in Los Angeles
November 3rd to December 22nd, 2018