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in 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,