John Waiblinger

John Waiblinger is a new media artist who explores masculinity and desire through his Post Photography compositions. Hailing from an academic background with degrees in English, Women's Studies and Library Science, Waiblinger redefined himself as an artist in his early 60s, first exhibiting his work at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) in 2014. Since then he has continued to exhibit in galleries and has established a small group of collectors. Waiblinger is a member artist of LACDA, the Los Angeles Art Association and the Los Angeles Center of Photography.
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"In my art I explore the mystery of why I find some men so beautiful and so intriguing. I use found images from the Internet's vast store of gay pornography, and combine them with my own photographs to articulate a relationship with those men. I consider the work Post Photography in that I am "making" a new photograph that is specific to my internal point of view.


The work presents the men I've appropriated via their pornographic performance and reconstructs them within the realm of my imagination. I manipulate these images to portray a masculinity that celebrates softness and a different type of e...

B.A. English & Certificate, Women's Studies
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
M.L.S. - Masters in Library Science
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

SOLO EXHIBITS:
June 2021, Different from the Others, tag Gallery, Los Angles, CA
March 2019, The Beauty of Men (celebrating tenderness), Hellada Gallery, Long Beach, CA
October 2018, The Beauty of Men (an iconography of desire), Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
March 2018, Solo show collaboration with Sean Yang, Window Dressings, Cerritos College Fine Arts, Cerritos, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS:
2021:
January 2021, tag Artists present: The Body Politic, tag Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020:
December 2020, 2020 Open, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
August 2020, Queer Isolation, tag Gallery (upstairs studio), Los Angeles, CA
July 2020, PROUD+, The Studio Door, San Diego, CA
June 2020, Fifth Annual, The Creative Portrait Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
June 2020, Out There, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
February 2020, Superfine! Currated Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
January 2020, Perceive Me, Group Show, Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA
January 2020, PhotoLA, Round Hole, Square Peg Group Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA
January 2020, Postcards from the Edge, Benefit show for Visual AIDS, New York, NY
2019:
December 2019, L.A. Fly By, Los Angeles ...