FXLK PLAY is an exhibition celebrating fifteen years of artists-in-residence at Tom of Finland Foundation and frames TOM House as a living pantheon of Queer mythmaking. Here, curator Jamison Edgar highlights the themes and sections of the exhibition that transforms historic Long Hall into an immersive exhibition of painting, sculpture, and video that evokes the maximalist nature of TOM House and its world-renowned erotic art archive.
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Featuring works from Tom of Finland Foundation’s permanent collection and archives, the group show is organized into three thematic collections and features an immersive installation of artists’ videos, a listening station with reflections from past residents, and a comprehensive timeline of TOM House.
FXLK PLAY on view in West Hollywood’s Plummer Park through March 19, 2026. It’s free and open to mature audiences Thursdays through Sundays, Noon–5pm with docents on site to guide. Join curator Jamison Edgar each Saturday from Noon-2pm for a guided tour. There are several associated special panel events, including one on Saturday, February 21 at 2pm taking place at TOM House. Visit for more information.
I’m excited to announce the opening of FXLK PLAY, my first collection’s exhibition, a project that has challenged me to refine my curatorial voice in pursuit of a framework that champions sexual liberation without flattening the complexities of those who steward it.
The title—with its phonetic and orthographic resemblances to Folk Play, Fuck Play, and Fix Play—gestures to the Foundation’s slippery folklore and to the indispensable roles the artists-in-residence play in shaping its 21st century identity.
At its core, FXLK PLAY proposes Tom of Finland as a modern-day folk hero, whose own residence at 1421 Laveta Terrace engendered a seismic shift from underground icon to something larger. Working in Los Angeles, Tom emerges as a mythic figure whose image continues to be rewritten through the desires, anxieties, and fantasies of queer folk today.
The artists-in-residence who follow in Tom’s footsteps form a formidable chorus of provocateurs, pushing at the boundaries of erotic self-expression. The exhibition features over seventy artworks, organized into three collections that echo the architectural fixtures of TOM House as well as the social fabric formed through decades of queer cohabitation. As residents, these artists do not simply reflect the Foundation’s worldview. In fact, they often find generous ways to subvert it. In doing so, they are the truest orators of Tom’s evolving legacy—bending, stretching, and slipping into it with mischief and devotion.
🏳️⚧️OPENING MARCH 14 - 6-9PM
QUEERING DIGITAL
Artists In Response to Anti
Trans Legislation &
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Participating Artists:
Jenna Caravello @jennafruit
Amina Cruz @aminacruz.studio
Nat Decker @nat_decker .
Marsian DeLellis @hausofmarsian
Andres Payan Estrada @andres_payan
Edgar Fabián Frías @edgarfabianfrias
Vita Kari @vitakari
Ibuki Kuramochi @ibuki kuramochi
Duane Paul @duanepaul
Phil Tarley @philtarleywrites
Thanos Valentine @celibatechase
Sammie Veeler @miss__sammie
Devin Wilson @devinwilsonstudio
Kira Xonorika @xonorika
Ruby Zarsky @rubysateen
Curators: Steve Galindo & Jamison Edgar @jamisonkh4
Location: Pacific Design Center: Blue Building 8687
Melrose Ave, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Queering Digital explores the social ramifications of digital technology through the lens of queer, trans, and non-binary artists working in Los Angeles. Over time, queer individuals have used technology and media not only as tools for survival, but also as sources of radical liberation-transforming inanimate objects, ideas, and movements into powerful symbols of resistance and self-expression. From secret printing presses and word-of-mouth newspapers to the infamous “first brick” thrown at the Stonewall Riots, to cruising phone lines and anonymous web browsers, Queering Digital traces the myriad of ways that technology has been instrumental in shaping queer social movements in perpetuity. Visitors to the exhibition will have the opportunity to trace these digital echoes across a range of visual mediums and digital systems. The resulting exhibition invites visitors to consider how digital influences are migratory-how they travel across borders, impacting individuals and communities.
QUEERING DIGITAL is supported in part by an arts grant from the City of West Hollywood. Thank you @WehoArts@WehoCity and @PacificDesignCenter
EXHIBITION DETAILS Opening Reception: March 14, 2025, 6-9 PM Exhibition Dates: March 14 - March 30
Artwork @xonorika
