Melancholy Pleasure

Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Artist in gowns, 2020, charcoal, marker, pen, watercolor, and glitter on paper, 14 by 11 inches.
The New York–based playwright and actor Jeremy O. Harris and the Philadelphia-based painter Jonathan Lyndon Chase are two Black queer artists who resolutely display their imaginations without restraint. On Harris’s stages and Chase’s canvases, the complexity of pleasure and the degradation of trauma are often explored through romantic fabulations that endeavor