This week we speak to Elliot Doughtie who explores the terrains inhabited by the transexual communities. Elliot's show Locker Room, currently scheduled for November, is made possible with the support of the ArtsWave's Pride grant, connection with the ACRE artist residency and the Crossport social support organization. Thank you to these organizations for working with us to share Elliot's work with Cincinnati.  

At the core of Doughtie's work is a desire to form intimate relationships between objects and the body in proximity to the awkwardness of a vulnerable situation. Relating alchemy, queerness, the quotidian and the strange, Doughtie utilizes sculpture and installation in the service of generating new bodily experiences that transcend socially normative expectations or functions. 

Elliot Doughtie's sculptures and installations are metaphors for how he envisions his own body and the bodies of those who are, like himself, transgender. Often within the sculptures, or the sculptures themselves, are tools that would be used specifically as a trans person to push the body to something that is other than its current limits. Currently, he is focusing on the setting of the bathroom, both public and private, using materials and forms commonly found within its' walls. Copper pipes and bathroom plumbing implements molded out of plaster are transformed from their original function to stand in for limbs or strange, exposed genitals, emphasizing the fluidity of identity. 

ArtsWave

Elliot Doughtie

ACRE Artist Residency

Crossport