BODYFLUID

A Group Exhibition by the Artist Collective QueerSoftOrange

Adrien Crossman, For the Archive, 2025, Velvet lined shadowboxes with found objects. Photo: Eli Nolet.

BODYFLUID

Maddie Alexander, Dana Buzzee, Adrien Crossman, Jane Foley, Morris Fox, Luke Maddaford, Tyler Matheson, and Sheri Osden Nault

August 8 – 29, 2026
Opening Reception: August 15, 2 – 5pm
Orchid Contemporary, Hamilton
Email orchidcontemporary@gmail.com for address

BODYFLUID is a hot late summer exhibition at Orchid Contemporary, bringing together QueerSoftOrange collective members’ works into heated contact and dialogue. BODYFLUID absorbs the fluids that permeate our queer bodies, the fluidity of our desires, and the messiness of body politics. BODYFLUID embodies the burning friction of QSO’s thirst to hold each other, to feel good forever, and to maintain queer communal feelings across body, space, and time. BODYFLUID flags the orange hanky code signaling “anything, anytime” or “nothing now, just cruising”. Playing in the languid days of summer, hot and idle, QSO reflects on the shimmer of a heat wave, or the sweet rush of lust as the unwavering sun transitions into dampening August night, dripping sweat.

Featuring Works By:
Maddie Alexander, Dana Buzzee, Adrien Crossman, Jane Foley, Morris Fox, Luke Maddaford, Tyler Matheson, and Sheri Osden Nault.

Tyler Matheson, Milk Thistle, 2026, Image transfer on wood board.

About the Artists

Maddie Alexander > www.maddie-alexander.com
Dana Buzzee > danabuzzee.com
Adrien Crossman > adriencrossman.com
Jane Foley > janefoley.club
Morris Fox > www.morrisfox.net
Luke Maddaford > lukemaddaford.com
Tyler Matheson > tylermatheson.ca/home.html
Sheri Osden Nault > @so_nault

About QueerSoftOrange

QueerSoftOrange is a trans-national multi-artist collective born out of a shared desire for connection, community, and collaboration. Current members include Maddie Alexander, Dana Buzzee, Adrien Crossman, Jane Foley, Morris Fox, Luke Maddaford, Tyler Matheson, and Sheri Osden Nault.

qso.gay
queersoftorange@gmail.com
Instagram @queersoftorange

Orchid Contemporary is an independent DIY art space and gallery located on the occupied territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, and Mississaugas in the east end of so-called Hamilton, Ontario.

Orchid Contemporary
Crown Point East, Hamilton, ON
Email orchidcontemporary@gmail.com for address
orchidcontemporary.com
Instagram @orchidcontemporary

Accessibility:
Orchid Contemporary is a partially accessible DIY gallery space in the Crown Point East Neighbourhood, Hamilton Ontario. The gallery is wheelchair accessible. The washroom is located up a short flight of stairs.

Image Descriptions:
1. Two framed shadow boxes hang on a wall of a room with a pink glow. The left frame holds a small black box that read: Type (Transition), the right frame holds three small metallic bottles.
2. Black silhouette of a milk thistle plant on wooden board. A small metal key hangs from the right side.