CHARTRUISA .... CHAR for short
Chartreuse is the color of my queer: mesmerizing with an underlying rotten grease: tough to look at. Chartruisa is the embodiment of chartreuse. Alone on stage, Chartruisa interrupts hetero time with slow recounts of sexual misreads, slow burns, late-bloomings, and lesbihonesty. Char has been visiting the polychrome world since 2013, starting in Baltimore, making their way to New York City, and beyond.Char has brightened the stages of:
The Poetry Project, NY, NY (2020)
After Hours, NY, NY (2020)
Stellar Projects, NY, NY (2019)
Spectacle Theater, NY, NY (2019)
Swale house, Govenor’s Island, NY, NY (2019)
Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY (2019)
Assembly Room, NY, NY (2019)
H0L0, Brooklyn, NY (2019)
Theater Workshop (2019)
The Root Cellar, Bard College, NY (2018)
The Velvet Garden, Buffalo, NY (2018)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2018)
The Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA (2018)
Anytime Dept, Cincinnati, OH (2018)
Electric Eye, Ann Arbor, MI (2018)
Helltrap Nightmare with Sara Squirm, Situations, Chicago, IL (2018)
State Street Pub, Indianapolis, IN (2018)
DRMTR Collective, Nashville, TN (2018)
Revolve Gallery, Asheville, NC (2018)
The Pinhook, Durham, NC (2018)
Gallery 5, Richmond, VA (2018)
The Holy Underground, Baltimore, MD (2018)
Otherfeels, Washington DC (2018)
Vox Populi: Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (2018)
The Sound Hole, Philadelphia, PA (2018)
The Windjammer, Ridgewood, NY (2018)
The Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven (2016)
Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2013, 2014)
Transmodern Festival, 14K Cabaret, Baltimore, MD (2014)
Pictures by Ashley Boman
plastic jumpsuit by Lily
Char’s vividness typically is too bright for cameras to capture... here is a rare recording :
Sunning
The Poetry Project’s Marathon Reading
Hand-dyed + altered clothing
New York, NY
January 1, 2020
WHO IS SHE tour .... with Jennifer Vanilla
Chartruisa and Jennifer Vanilla Homecoming show, 2018
Windjammer, Ridgewood Queens, NY
SOCK NECK : 6:19 minutes of sock necking, captured and edited by Sara Sowell. 2017...
Screenings include:
Queer Moving Image Screening Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA (2018)
Tender FM The Crown, Baltimore, MD (2017)
SOFT: Queer Cinema Screening Coral Short, Berlin, Germany