![]() ![]() They tell me it’s “niche,” that they aren’t sure they have the “clientele” for it, or my personal favorite: “It doesn’t fit with our programming.” ![]() For years, I’ve been rejected by gallery owners who say that my art is too sexy, too graphic, and too unapologetically queer to sell - although they don’t use those words exactly. But the victory is bittersweet because I know how rarely artists who made the kind of work I do get this kind of exposure. These pieces represent the best, most radically queer art I’ve ever made - fluorescent paintings depicting nude men frolicking in a three-dimensional garden of desire, with images sourced from vintage gay porn magazines. Being a queer artist can mean working twice as hard to get even a modicum of the same respect afforded to your peers, but many of us never get that far to begin with, especially if the work you make is considered “too gay.”Īfter years of long nights and taxing weekends at the studio, my first solo show in Los Angeles finally opened last month, an exhibition of six paintings, 10 photographs, and 10 drawings that runs at Noon Projects in Chinatown until October 21.
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