Portland's Own Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper
The duo formed GLOOP, the Glamorous Ladies of Opulent Persuasion, giving our audience three evenings of spectacularly unhinged drag.
Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP, 2023, PICA (2023) by Arists include Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper, photos by Robert FranklinPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
What is GLOOP you ask?
GLOOP is a lifestyle. GLOOP is a brand. GLOOP is a modality.
Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP, 2023, PICA (2023) by Arists include Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper, photos by Robert FranklinPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
Who is GLOOP?
Gloop is Portland, Oregon’s premier avant-garde drag duo comprised of artist and writer Anthony Hudson, better known as Carla Rossi, and multimedia performance artist and writer Pepper Pepper.
After over a year on tour, GLOOP returned to Portland for the first time since February 2021 for a spectacularly unhinged set of performances at PICA from August 17-19, 2023.
Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP, 2023, PICA (2023) by Arists include Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper, photos by Robert FranklinPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
Each evening audiences were treated to Carla Rossi and Pepper-Pepper tackling art therapy, micro-dosing, land acknowledgments, and demonstrating what it looked like when a drag queen had a meltdown while lip-syncing on an actively-inflating airbed.
Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP, 2023, PICA (2023) by Arists include Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper, photos by Robert FranklinPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
Needless to say GLOOP hilariously showed PICA's audiences how to overcome (and monetize) our limiting beliefs through a gauntlet of spectacular drag performances from two of Portland’s most beloved grifters.
Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP, 2023, PICA (2023) by Arists include Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper, photos by Robert FranklinPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
Learn More!
You can learn more about GLOOP and all of PICA's programs at pica.org/events/gloop
All photographs are by Robert Franklin and courtesy of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
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