Joan Cox (born 1969) is a figurative painter who focuses on intimacy and family relationships in the lesbian community. Images of female couples in both painting and photography have been repressed, hidden, or explained as erotic material for the male gaze. Working in large-scale figurative painting, Cox adheres to the notion that representation matters. She seeks to portray dynamic, complex, sensual, sexual, and loving relationships between women—normalizing them. Paintings of… more