MoMA featured Australian artist Adam Seymour is following in the footsteps of Grindr Illustrated, and painting a series of watercolors depicting Grindr profiles. Seymour's been exploring the digital spaces around him since 2012, when he began painting the G-Force series. Unlike other artists' work in this space, which tend to exaggerate the inherently sexual aspects of Grindr, Seymour's paintings focus on the accidental humor and mundaneness that the platform sometimes creates.
“I began the project as I had become intrigued by the idea of our private worlds being made public through social media,” the artist told Buzzfeed in an interview. “We reveal our most wild, deviant, sexual, fantastical selves to the digital universe, for anyone to see, and yet, for some reason, maintain this subconscious expectation that only our desired audience will see it.”
Check out more of Adam Seymour's Grindr portraits AFTER THE JUMP…
