«I have worked with my own likeness since the early nude paintings from the 1970's through
large naked images of myself done more than 30 years later.
Not exact matches
It was placed in front of Richard Prince's Spiritual America 3 (2013), the incendiary, infamous
image of a young,
naked Brooke Shields, blown up
large to poster - size, with modesty pixels over the pubic area.
This exhibition of
large and medium scale works features photographs that plumb the depths, showing what the
naked eye does not always see, as well as unusual dreamlike
images, resulting from water, heat and time working to deconstruct archived slides.
KAWS» deep black Michelin - like figure CHUM (2009) stands determinedly next to graphic paintings by Gokita, offering his protection to the
naked and faceless vulnerables posed in the
images, while ACCOMPLICE (2010)-- a matte black toy bunny sculpture with
large Xs covering his eyes — stands hunched in defeat across the room, out of sync with the bright canvases that surround him.
Openly gay, he started selling his
large - scale digital photographs — including pictures with multiple
images of himself running
naked through the streets of Beijing or copulating with his double in public places — even before he graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2005.
In one
large - scale painting, projectors broadcast beams of light onto the
naked men's bodies; where each beam hits their flesh or another surface it leaves behind an
image of a smiley face.
In the
large photograph unscharfer Rückenakt (Out - of - Focus Nude Back), 1994, the slightly blurred contours of the
naked male body possess a painterly quality reminiscent of Gerhard Richter's works; it is only at second glance that a vulnerability evoking life at the margins of conventional society becomes evident in this
image of a kneeling man with dirty feet, who is seen from above and contained in a narrow pictorial space.