LEAH FADNESS

VERMILLION ART GALLERY

MAY 7-30th 2026

OPENING: MAY 7th 5-8pm

CAPITOL HILL ART WALK: MAY 14th 5-9pm

Skrimsli, meaning monster in Old Norse, refers to the perception of Loki and his children as monstrosities that must be controlled or killed out of fear that they will bring about the apocalypse. This perspective feels like a mirror for how queerness is viewed by certain subsets of modern society.

In this series of drawings, Leah Fadness uses characters from Norse mythology to explore fear based treatment of queerness through the lens of their cultural heritage’s folklore. Creating this series has been a way of processing this repetition of misconceptions.

This body of work is a collaboration between Fadness and two dancers, Kyrin Grey and Ezra Dickinson who posed for the series.