The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia
Gabriel Martinez, Untitled (Abstractions) #5, 2011, Archival pigment print, 30"x30"
Chad States, Untitled from the series Cruising, 2010, Archival pigment print, 24"x30"Gabriel Martinez and Chad States are both Philadelphia-based artists that have recently completed extensive photographic bodies of work that are receiving national and international attention. Both bodies of work look at unique facets of male homosexual culture and desire. Martinez, in his recent body of work exhibited in Boston, photographed groups of gay men who come together for safe sex encounters. States, meanwhile, has traveled nationally documenting men that "cruise" for anonymous sex in the woods. This body of work was recently released in a beautiful book entitled Cruising.
The event at the Print Center in Philadelphia (6PM on the 23rd, free to the public) will be a discussion between the two artists and the public, examining the complex issues that bring together and also differentiate the sexual cultures depicted in these fabulous bodies of work.
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