Dustin August’s work is a study in process—an exploration of layering, transparency, and assertion. Rooted in traditional printmaking techniques like screen printing and lithography, his approach deconstructs the final image, suspending it in a state between resolution and evolution. Each layer is deliberate, yet fluid, allowing meaning to shift and settle over time.
Colour, gesture, and space are not just compositional tools but acts of resistance. Black lines cut through softness, anchoring form, while pink—a recurring motif—demands attention, disrupts expectation, and reclaims presence. It is both playful and political, a visual insistence that queer identities are not only visible but integral.
The Male, Formed situates the queer and trans masculine body within the subversive yet predominantly hyper-masculine culture of skateboarding. Here, the skateboard becomes a site of reclamation—an insistence on space, movement, and recognition. Through this interplay of process and identity, August’s work operates as both resistance and reconstruction, unsettling fixed narratives and expanding the possibilities of representation.
Dustin August’s work is a study in process—an exploration of layering, transparency, and assertion. Rooted in traditional printmaking techniques like screen printing and lithography, his approach deconstructs the final image, suspending it in a state between resolution and evolution. Each layer is deliberate, yet fluid, allowing meaning to shift and settle over time.
Colour, gesture, and space are not just compositional tools but acts of resistance. Black lines cut through softness, anchoring form, while pink—a recurring motif—demands attention, disrupts expectation, and reclaims presence. It is both playful and political, a visual insistence that queer identities are not only visible but integral.
The Male, Formed situates the queer and trans masculine body within the subversive yet predominantly hyper-masculine culture of skateboarding. Here, the skateboard becomes a site of reclamation—an insistence on space, movement, and recognition. Through this interplay of process and identity, August’s work operates as both resistance and reconstruction, unsettling fixed narratives and expanding the possibilities of representation.