Icons & Intimacy: An Exploration of Queer Tendency
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ICONS & INTIMACY: An Exploration of Queer Tendency dives into the complex and vibrant landscape of queer culture, where passion and admiration for icons intersect with intimate, often unspoken desires. This exhibition captures the essence of how queer people, often characterized by their unapologetic embrace of sexuality and freedom, celebrate their own identities through devotion to icons—figures who embody the spirit of liberation, sensuality, and self-expression. Through exploring our shared tendencies in the creation of icons in each of the photographs, we unveil the unique relationship between queer individuals and the icons they revere. These icons often appear in fantastical settings, representing ideals of beauty, strength, and defiance. The fantastical nature of our depictions serves as a powerful metaphor for the aspirational and transformative qualities that each figure embodies. For many queer people, icons provide a space to project and explore their own desires, dreams, and identities beyond the constraints of everyday reality. These settings create a visual language that elevates these icons to a near-mythical status, offering a realm where the extraordinary becomes possible and the normative boundaries of gender, sexuality, and identity can be transcended. With a bold and unapologetic openness, this space celebrates the dual nature of queer devotion: the intense admiration for public figures and the personal, intimate experiences that define queer desire. Ultimately this exhibition is a tribute to the power of queer liberation, where being a "whore" is a badge of pride and devotion is a form of self-expression.
Massimo Greco is a queer artist and director based in New York. They are a recent alumnus of the Rochester Institute of Technology, earning a BFA in Photographic and Imaging Arts. During their time Massimo’s photographic and experiential work predominantly focuses on the performance of identity in the contemporary digital world that transcends the spaces of photography, VFX, and fine art.
Silas Sims is a queer artist based in New York and Illinois. They produce hauntingly evocative imagery fueled by a curiosity to explore the intricate nuances of identity, beauty, and desire. Currently perusing a BFA at RIT, they have produced a variety of work including the books such as, Seeing G.O.D. (Girls on Drugs) and have exhibited in several group shows while attending university. They dedicate free time, outside of holding a position as a cager at RIT to supporting other artists with lighting and camerawork to better themselves and others.
Embracing Paradox: Paintings by Carey Corea
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Carey Corea earned a BFA from RIT College of Art and Design in 1969. He enrolled with the vision of becoming a painter. At the conclusion of his junior year, Corea embarked on a career in commercial art. Along with two fellow students, he formed a design agency while still attending college. After decades of serving the design and promotional needs of local and national businesses, Corea once again turned his attention to drawing and painting.
This exhibition features Corea’s most recent work along with paintings from the last decade. The paintings have been painted with encaustic medium. Invented by the Greeks, it is one of the most ancient paints known to mankind. Encaustic paint is created with a beeswax binder, pigments and tree sap that acts as a hardener.
The paint is applied to an absorbent surface, usually a wood panel. During the painting process, the medium is kept in a molten state on a heated palette and must be rapidly applied. Each brush stroke of paint requires “fusing” which is a process of slightly re-melting the wax to ensure adherence to the layer underneath.
“I believe it is the artist’s responsibility to explore the interplay of both the inner and outer realities, the visible and the invisible, the realms of the material and of the spiritual. This paradoxical journey has led me to adopt an outward orientation that seeks to enrich the beholder. It is the intention of my work to act more like a portal to new worlds rather than a painting with just aesthetic virtues. I believe that the composition of the diverse elements of any form of art, when mirroring the order of existence, affects the viewer’s heart and spirit in dramatic ways. When successful, such a work has the potential to elevate the soul, to be the source of comfort and tranquility for troubled souls, and to possibly stimulate reflection upon the mysteries of life. When art operates on this plane it becomes eternal.” - Carey Corea
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