Memory: The Homosexual Memorial Imagination

Noreen Dean Dresser

1998

Art installation of inverted triangle with object underneath.
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Noreen Dean Dresser

b. 1952

The art of American artist Noreen Dean Dresser often deals with sexual identity, gender, and feminism. In 1998, Memory: The Homosexual Memorial Imagination was selected for the permanent collection of the International Association of Gay and Lesbian Children of Holocaust Survivors. From 2002 to 2004, she was president of the national board of the Women’s Caucus for Art.

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