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Cory Peekeclick image to enlarge
Artist's Statement With my latest series of collages I have begun juxtaposing appropriated images acquired from amateur internet porn websites, found photography, art historical masterworks, illustration, as well as contemporary and vintage wallpaper samples in order to explore visual expressions of masculinity. The integration of both transparent and opaque elements alludes to complicated relationship society has to the naked male form. On the one hand we have a puritan need to screen public display of male genitalia at the very same time there is a proliferation in online profiles featuring nude self-portraits and an escalation in the act of sexting by individuals of all ages with a cell phone. This mixed message is indicative of our society’s conflicted relationship with displays of the male nude. These pieces investigate how we perceive and react to the dualities embodied in representations of the male form: the ideal and the familiar, the historical and the contemporary, the religious and the erotic, the decorative and the repulsive, the animal and the human, the serious and the amusing, and the naked and the nude. They also question the role visual images of masculinity play in the way we view men in general. Artist's Biography Peeke earned his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design and his MFA from the University of Idaho. His work is motivated by an interest in exploring social and cultural conceptions of sexual identity. He is represented by the Conrad Wilde Gallery of Tucson and Gallery I M A in Seattle.
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