LEAH FADNESS

VERMILLION ART GALLERY

MAY 7-30th 2026

OPENING: MAY 7th 5-8pm Performance at top of 5 o’clock hour

FIGURE IT OUT!: MAY 12th 6-7pm Performance at 6:15pm Drawing Night 7pm

CAPITOL HILL ART WALK: MAY 14th 5-9pm Performances at top of 6 and 8 o’clock hours

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 dancers, Kyrin Grey and Ezra Dickinson who posed for the series. They will be performing a piece choreographed by Grey to a selection of songs from Lori Goldston’s album High and Low to accompany Fadness’s drawings during events pertaining to the show.