The Boomer Gallery - "Identity" Call For Artists

Somewhere between the surface and the soul lies a truth we spend our lives trying to uncover, identity. It is not a fixed point but a shifting constellation of memory, culture, desire, trauma, and imagination. A mask and a mirror. A performance and a confession.

For many artists, the creative process becomes a journey of excavation, digging through inherited narratives, societal expectations, and personal mythology. Art is how we ask: Who am I when no one is watching? Or conversely: Who do I become when everyone is?

Some find clarity in this search. Through paint, fabric, clay, code, they craft versions of themselves they recognize, perhaps for the first time. Their art speaks with a quiet certainty: This is me. Or at least, this is who I am right now.

Others dwell in the uncertainty, questioning not just who they are but what identity even means. For them, art is…