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These paintings have been segregated onto this page due to their provocative imagery. Having said that, they really have less (or little) to do with sex than with politics, ageing and sexuality in general -- of anyone. Within a long history of artists using explicit imagery to delve into sexual politics, (for example Manet, Picasso, Egon Schiele, David Wojnarowicz, and Lynda Bengliss), not to mention the many contemporary artists borrowing on pornography or simple erotica (eg. Tom Wesselman, Jeff Koons, John Currin), these paintings present the figure as everyman, and recontextualize youthful and idealized bodies into situations all of us share to varying degrees in our daily lives -- having to do with thoughts not only about sexual gratification, but how we feel about ourselves, and how sexuality of any kind figures into a society where religious taboos continually try to douse the subject with cold water. Of particular interest to me are ideas of sexuality when it is equated with militarly power, the urge for immortality via procreation, and the burden that procreation places on the earth's resources and our political systems.
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