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The First Time Is Not Like Porn Linda Griggs brings together
images taken from porn next to people’s real life loss of virginity stories to create an ironical contrast between the fiction and reality.
French Vineyard, Jazz-Minh Moore’s small scale painting of a couple
making love on a country road is from a series of paintings inspired
from the artist’s own sexual experiences in the most uncommon
places such as parking lots or broom closets. Multidirectional Sexual
Compositions is a group of paintings by KM Copham who creates
works on wooden boards telling stories of sex and personal memory
while using the rigidness of the wood as a metaphor.
MLSP Open Cape is a part of Marne Lucas’ ongoing series of nude
photographs in which the artist comments on how gender and social
roles relate to the notions of sexuality and femininity in pop culture.
Constance and Eric is an artistic duo depicting the contrast of what
mainstream media presents as sexual or erotic. Through intimate and
alluring photographs, the duo documents the common and the variant aspects of coupling in this series of photographs. Azmi Mert
Erdem’s I Contradict Myself represents a moment of evanescent
charged with love, fear, desire and letting it go. Applying his own
semen on paper, the artist revisits the suppressed contradictions and
sexual desires lying beneath of every self, including his.
Explosive Union is Lowell Boyers’ quest for the unseen by using abstraction as a metaphor for ecstasy and revery. The outcome of the
artist’s investigation for a new visuality is an exuberant rejoicing of
colors and sensuality. Randy Palumbo’s phallic sculptures present a
challenge to redefine the understanding of materialization as well as
carnality. Breaking the norms of the creation process while questioning the notion of beauty, Palumbo’s sculptural work suggests a new
understanding for aesthetics. Yulina Lanina’s Bible Reader is a stop
motion animation in which classic characters from her paintings
come to life to perform a spectacle on uneasiness, empathy andfantasy. Ambrose & Wether’s Unfulfilled Desires, a wet-plate collodionseries is the artistic duo’s homage to early twentieth century
erotica. The idea of fetish, both as a longing for the object and the
pleasure, is used as a method to portray deprivation and desire
present a challenge to redefine the understanding of materialization as well as carnality. Joanne Leah’s Earth is an interpretation of
the artist’s childhood memory recalling playing dead to trick
attacking dogs. The fear of being eating alive and the calmness of
surrender are embodied in the artist’s work as her childhood
memory is revised in her adult body. Katie Peyton’s Auto-Kitenic
Compositions are a study on human form, embracing its
perfectness--and its flaws--to roam around the shoreless waters of
sexuality. Presenting various views of a single female nude model
in different poses, the drawings discuss the ways nudity is observed in the society.
Betty Tompkins’ drawings focuses on the glorifying moment of
sexual intercourse- capturing viewers beyond voyeuristic pleasures.
Two works from artist’s Fuck Photo series are examples of her celebration of detailed figurative depictions of the sexual imagination.
Web-based multimedia project VVVVVV by Faith Holland is a
speaks to the ever growing technology presence in today’s world,
the fully functioning porn site Holland created addresses how the
internet influences the perceptions towards sexuality.
Archibald Frank & Syrie Moskowitz contemplates on the urge to
create ephemeral moments through different mediums, such as
photography, film or painting. From the mountains of Tennessee to
dreamy Italian shores, the duo’s performances find their meanings
in the most carnal and sensual forms. For the opening reception of
the exhibition, Genevieve White performs Eye Candy,