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About The Artwork
My most recent paintings are of selfie pictures of gay men you can find on gay dating apps and Instagram. Obsessed with how we look, we isolate ourselves with our faces glued to our screens compulsively scrolling through pictures whilst ironically posting the most private of moments. Here I am in my new underwear. Here I am with my new lover. Here’s my dick pic, and here’s my ass spread open for you to see. We’re seeking validation for our self-image, for the workouts we do at the gym, for the sienna tan we work hard to achieve. Online we have the illusion of privacy, while everyone views. We are nurtured with “likes” rather than smiles or nods. These likes encourage this form of sharing because we appear to be in control. We control the amount of intimacy, a kind of fabricated intimacy, which ends up defining the persona we create. We become avatars of homogenous homosexuality, creating a blanket of sameness as you scroll from one gay man’s selfie page to another.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:11 W x 14 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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During my formal training in University, i almost entirely focused on printmaking and design; mores specifically traditional and offset lithography and etching. With the inevitable layering of imagery forming the basis of printmaking, i was fascinated with the very technical and forceful methodology of this kind of art-making. After graduating, I realized that the medium of print wasn't easy to continue within the confines of my home studio. I had no printing presses and fork lifts to move large limestones around or massive sinks to clean them off. I had to change mediums and so i taught myself how to paint! Having been steeped in heavy step by step production for so long, I transferred this knowledge to painting: the science of colour mixing, the different layers of grounds and paints and oils applied. It seemed that my natural inclinations for the technical became easily applied to a painterly almost photo realism in painting. So here I am, many years later, a formed but still learning painter, painting portraits of gay men.
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