Johnathan Yeo : Sweet Scalpel

New Works by Johnathan Yeo 

For information about available works, please contact Ralph Taylor (ralph@lazinc.com)

For information about the limited edition portrait portfolio please contact Charles Booth Clibborn or Florian Simm (florian@paragonpress.co.uk)

For information about paintings for sale, please contact Charlie Phillips or Susannah Haworth at www.elevenfineart.com 

Bill Durgan : Still Life

Bill Durgan portrays nude figures with elegance and subdued erotic nature, oozing refined sensuality even through inanimate object. The tangible flesh he refers to as "living sculpture" captured with resistance to the portrayal of traditional figuration.

http://billdurgin.com/

Andrei Varga : Painterly Portraiture and Blackness

BUY ORIGINALS HERE:

http://www.saatchionline.com/andreivarga

JUERGEN TELLER : EROTIC LEGEND

http://www.juergenteller.com

REPRESENTATION:

Thu Nguyen
CLM UK

Tel: +44 (0)20 7313 8310
Fax: +44 (0)20 7792 8507

Enquiries: thu@clmuk.com
Web: www.clmuk.com

Top Floor
19 All Saints Road
London W11 1HE

GALLERY:

Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Tel: (001) 212 255 2923
Fax: (001) 212 255 2924

Enquiries: stephanie@lehmannmaupin.com
Web: www.lehmannmaupin.com

540 West 26 Street
New York, NY 10001 USA

Julien Spiani : Love in Settlement

JULIEN SPIANI

Beth Caverner Stitcher : Ferel Humors

 "There are primitive animal instincts lurking in our own depths, waiting for the chance to slide past a conscious moment."

"The sculptures I create focus on human psychology – stripped of context and rationalization, and articulated through animal and human forms. This body of work was developed in an effort to understand how my own desires, fears, and insecurities have shaped my sexuality.

For this work, I collected stories from individuals who were willing to confide their most intimate experiences relating to gender identity, fantasies, fetishes, and abuses. I wanted to understand how these complex private experiences haunt our public personas.


The portraits created for this exhibition found their genesis in these shared personal accounts; I took their stories in and merged them with my own. The figures which have emerged use their animal body language in an effort to communicate their human natures:  coy, desperate, lonely, and full of both fear and an unspoken longing." - Artist statement for the series 'A Modest Proposal'

Images from the series, 'A Modest Proposal'

A Necessary Delusion, 2006

Do I dare eat a peach?, 2006

The Fallacy of Virtuosity, 2006

         The Voyeurs, 2006

_________________________________________________

From the series, 'On Tender Hooks'

A Rush of Blood to the Head, 2009

"Following from my work on the exhibition, “A Modest Proposal,” in which I explored aspects of human sexuality, I still felt that I was struggling to understand and relate to certain aspects of gender identity.  I remembered reading an account of an antiquated view of homosexuality as being described as ‘aberrant and unnatural behavior caused by a rush of blood to the head.’  The phrase ‘a rush of blood to the head’ was also used as a legal defense to describe ‘a crime of passion’ for which the person could not be held accountable.  It made me think about the desire to ascribe anything other than ‘accepted normal behavior’ as a fault of one’s own irrational body…an excess of blood in the body. " 

All Text From the Artists Website: www.followtheblackrabbit.com

 A Second Kind of Loneliness, 2009

Every 8 seconds, a breath is released  

   from the goat's mouth, causing the 

 pinwheel to spin slowly.

Humiliation by Design, 2009

The handle to the right  

   turns the cast iron gears, 

 slowly rotating the figure

 on the center shaft  

Roger Reutimann : Morte di Venere

The Death of Venus Sculpture.

"Art has become more of a commodity and investment tool; something that people by and hope it will be worth more in the future. In my sculpture the skull symbolizes those changes of cultural ideas and values. The shell from which she emerges is now closed, resembling a coffin. The Ferrari red auto paint is a representation of out fast living times of glitz and glamour yet to some degree the figure itself represents old traditions." - Roger Reutimann

Botticelli's The Birth of Venus
http://www.rogerreutimann.com/

Julia Randall : Tongue & Mouth

from Lick Line

Lick Line #1

2002, colored pencil on paper, 16"x12"

 Click here for more images from the "Lick Line" series

Lick Line is a series of disembodied mouths floating in space. Rendered in exacting detail, the tongues protrude and beckon the viewer to come close. The mouth is the body's critical site, where we eat, speak, kiss and bite; it is both ferocious and tender. We see the mouth and tongue all the time, yet they are highly intimate. Seen as a group the mouths undulate and bounce. Like many voices talking at once, they strangely invade our space with humor and perversity.

from Lovebirds

Lovebird # 5

2005, colored pencil on paper, 30” x 22”

Click here for more images from the "Lovebirds" series

The Lovebirds take the fetishization of animals to the extreme. Various exotic birds are depicted with heads and beaks that have morphed into mouths and tongues. Reminiscent of wind-up toys redesigned for human pleasure, these wacky and disturbing hybrids leave the world of Audubon, and tweak our desire to capture and consume exoticism.

from Lures

Lure # 4 

2007, colored pencil on paper, 22” x 30”

Click here for more images from the "Lures" series

The Lures are drawings of mouths and tongues on the move; the rapid motion is suggestive of speech, biting, and sexual signaling. Glimpses of moist lips, tongues and teeth hint at the potential ferocity of sensual flesh. Isolated in space, the mouth in motion becomes a visceral spectacle.

from Decoys

Decoy #7

2007, colored pencil on paper, 29"x 41"

Click here for more images from the "Decoys" series

The "Decoys" are surreal riffs on genetically modified plants, and hint at the perils of human intervention and biotechnical "advances" in the natural world. Nature has signed up in the service of seduction, for the purpose of entrapment. Sex play, violence and scientific exploration all merge in hybrid botanical drawings, that are at once beautiful and disturbing, erotic and fanciful.

from Lick Line

Lick Line #26

2004, colored pencil on paper, 16” x 12”

from Lovebirds

Lovebird #1

2003, colored pencil on paper, 22"x 30"

from Decoys

Decoy #6

2006, colored pencil on paper, 46"x34"

from Blown

Plumgum

2011, colored pencil on paper, 24"x 18"

from Blown

Bubblemouth #2

2012, colored pencil on paper, 62"x 45"

Click here for more images from the "Blown" series
Bubblegum initially connotes innocent, cheeky pleasure, yet the fragile skin of gum also points to the susceptibility of the body, and the dreaded passage of time. Bubble gum is an insignificant, disposable material, and the pleasure taken from its flavor is fleeting. The bubble is a vessel that holds our breath, for a brief moment, in a physical form. Seen as a group, the inflating/ deflating bubble imagery is a visual manifestation of breathing. They are decidedly anthropomorphic, and can appear abject, fragile, and as vulnerable as the human body.






Articles and Reviews on Julia Randall's Artwork
All text from: JuliaRandall.com
Jeff Bailey Gallery
625 W27TH ST (11th & 12th Aves)
NY, NY 10001