A Gay-Oriented Collection of Art Works, Literary Quotes, Songs, Films, and Male Images. Please be aware thet there is mature content on this blog. Information and links to sources will be provided unless unknown. Enjoy your visit.
Illustrations by Owen Freeman
Owen Freeman is a freelance illustrator based in Los Angeles. He graduated with a BFA from the Art Center College of Design. His work is used for editorials, advertising, film, and comic books.
The first illustration is from the “Vault of Sahdows”, the second book in “The Nightsiders” trilogy by Jonathan Maberry and published by Simon & Schuster. The second illustration is from “The Orphan Army” , the first book in “The Nightsiders” trilogy.
Brandon, “Sahib” Photo Shoot
Reblogged with many thanks to the artist’s site: http://br8nd0n.tumblr.com
Jeffrey Milstein, Five Photographs from His Series LANY: Aerial Photographs of Los Angeles and New York, Published by Thomas & Hudson,
Using the highest-resolution cameras available mounted to a stabilizing gyro, Milstein leans out of helicopters and does steep circles in small airplanes over Los Angeles where he grew up and over New York where he now lives, looking for shapes and patterns of culture from above, continually awed by the difference between the aerial view and the view on the ground.
Millstein emphasizes the abstraction of pattern and reveals aspects of urban design and planning of both cities at the same time as he offers an intensification of detail and an abundance of information. He composes his images so that the viewer is still vividly aware of the human scale.
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David DiMichele,” Pseudo Documentation”, Installation/ Photography Series
David DiMichele’s current body of work, Pseudo Documentation, is a series of large-scale photographs depicting grandiose installations in fantasy exhibition spaces. DiMichele creates this work by first building scale models of exhibition spaces, and producing original artworks in drawing, painting and sculpture mediums, which are sited in the spaces and then photographed to create the final works.
The Pseudo Documentation photographs are inspired by DiMichele’s background as an installation artist, love of abstract forms and passion for monumental museum and gallery architecture.
Images from Top to Bottom: Hose Drawing, 2008; Salt and Asphalt, 2007; Pendulum Drawing, 2005; Broken Glass, 2006: Melting Ice, 2007; Light Rods, 2008; Apollonian and Dionysian, 2009; Holes, 2009.
Top image reblogged with thanks to http://contemporary-art-blog.com
Carl Dobsky, “Ship of Fools”, 2014-2015, Oil on Canvas, 72 x 108 Inches
Carl Dobsky, a realist artist who is also the proprietor of the Los Angeles based Safehouse Atelier, showed his recent six-by-nine-foot canvas “Ship of Fools” at John Pence Gallery in June 2015.
“The theme for the work has been around for a long time, but kind of comes into it’s own in the 15th and 16th centuries with works by the likes of Hieronymous Bosch and others. It usually depicts a boat without a pilot filled with deranged or people who are kind of oblivious to their situation. In some cases, it has been used as social commentary. To
I wanted to show them in a situation where they were caught between an ideal vision and a practical situation. In this case, the practical situation is obvious enough; they’re about to wash up into the rocks if they can’t take care of matters at hand. To show the vision of the ideal, I chose the symbol of the butterfly for it’s delicate and fragile beauty. The thought to use butterflies came to me after reading about Chuang Tzu’s dream where his identity becomes interchangeable with the butterfly.” – Carl Dobsky