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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 ,

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 ,