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07/16/2008


If You're Lonely...

Jessiefinleyreed

This is one of a series of images by Jesse Finley Reed at a show opening tonight at Sloane Fine Art in New York. The series is comprised of backlit portraits of men he met in online communities in Berlin and New York.

(more at Band of Thebes)

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  1. "met in online communities". You mean like, horny-right-now sort of communities?

    Ah, yes, looked it up, that's exactly what's meant. Nothing wrong with that.

    But the pictures are unbelievably boring and unimaginative. Dude went to Yale for this? Backlighting- wow. Ten thousand album covers in the 70's did it too.

    Why is so much of "gay" art so bad these days?

    Posted by: Bell | Jul 16, 2008 9:16:31 PM


  2. These are quite lovely.

    One thing: the linked story at Band of Thebes has a bit more text, but no other images. However, several images from the exhibition are at his website, linked through his name.

    There's also a funny series of nudes of guys with average bodies made up to look as if they have six-packs.

    Posted by: thin mint | Jul 16, 2008 10:01:34 PM


  3. 'BELL', art is and always has been a subjective experience. Individual taste. Full Stop.

    Nice to see Band of Thebes mentioned on Towleroad. The internet is awash with mindless gay fluff, however BofT is consistent with intelligent substance and a wonderful place to visit.

    Posted by: Jing-reed | Jul 16, 2008 10:41:50 PM


  4. Quite amazing...lovely work.

    Posted by: sachin | Jul 17, 2008 3:19:47 AM


  5. But Honey, I am meeting all these random guys on the net for my art!

    Posted by: kujhawker | Jul 17, 2008 8:16:10 AM


  6. @Bell:
    It's a symptom of class stratification. As the working class has less and less time to devote to leisure, there is a correlative decline in their time to produce art. This allows only for those of a limited class (the wealthy) to have time to produce art (also? literature, music, more).

    Since most of the wealthy are of similar backgrounds (cultural and educational) there has become a self-congratulatory class of artists who dominate the art world. Relatedly, as the art world has become more tied to the transactional world of business, there is now an even higher ceiling to break into art. So basically we have a bunch of Yalies and other Ivy-educated folks in a circle-jerk, congratulating the perpetuation of their mediocrity.

    Posted by: Rod | Jul 17, 2008 8:25:03 AM


  7. Rod, as a full-time working artist, I have a hard time finding any similarity between what you describe and my life.

    Most of the artists I know are struggling to stay afloat, keeping up with their bills and stubbornly remaining in the game as full-time artists and part-time whatevers just to survive. The bulk of us are not wealthy or Ivy-leaguers. When and IF we get a chance to exhibit our work in the already over-glutted art scene, we're happy to get the sparest of mentions, let alone a boost by the online press, critics or best of all: patronage.

    The world of art is much bigger, more stratified and far more varied than what you imagine here.

    Posted by: johnny | Jul 17, 2008 8:58:24 AM


  8. I think Rod is joking. If anything is a circle jerk, it's spouting Marxist theories of Art.

    Posted by: anon | Jul 17, 2008 11:16:10 AM


  9. One picture = nice

    Two pictures = ok

    15 pictures = zzzzzz...

    Posted by: Q | Jul 17, 2008 11:50:47 AM


  10. Completely agreed, Q.

    Posted by: Paul R | Jul 17, 2008 1:49:15 PM


  11. Anon, It's pretty clear that Rod is definitely not joking.

    You can cleverly label my post whatever way you want to, but throwing clever labels onto it doesn't change anything.

    It's not art theories, it's our lives and our realities. If you can't relate, fine, but don't use intelligencia phrasing to put artists down. It makes you the anonymous jerk in the circle.

    Posted by: Johnny | Jul 18, 2008 9:36:58 AM


  12. i see a third nipple!

    Posted by: thethird | Jul 18, 2008 4:41:31 PM


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