June 10 from 5:00 pm–8:00 pm
The Line DC
Join us for a summer soirée celebrating PRIDE and “Icons,” a photography exhibition by Rachel A Sale & John Coplen rooftop at the LINE DC! Complimentary wine & lite bites + cash bar available!
Transformer and the LINE DC present “Icons,” an exhibition developed through a collaboration between creative director John Coplen and photographer Rachel A Sale that reimagines culturally iconic images through the reversal of gender – not as imitation, but as disruption. By unsettling familiar representations of beauty and desire, the work exposes how deeply these ideas are conditioned, and how easily they can be reassigned. In reconstructing these images, the artists are not only questioning what we see, but why we see it that way. What is beauty if it can be transferred from one body to another without losing its power? Rooted in a personal search for self beyond appearance, this series points toward something more constant beneath the surface – an identity not defined by gender, image, or form, but shared across all of us. What remains is not the body, but the awareness that recognizes itself within it.
About Rachel A Sale:
Visual storyteller working at the intersection of commercial production and humanitarian documentary. Based in Baltimore. Working globally. Two decades capturing human stories across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and beyond. Building visual narratives that connect mission-driven brands with their audiences.
About John Coplen:
John Coplen is a Washington, DC based recovering architect turned real estate agent. His career has always focused on how the spaces we design and inhabit reflect our inner lives. As a gay man, he brings a keen understanding of what it means to exist outside expected norms. He uses the freedom that comes from that to inspire his own architectural designs, and his clients. He is excited to help organize this debut collection featuring friends breaking the rules and looking fabulous.
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