‘This series explores the subject of sexuality via contemporary still lifes. These paintings at once demystify the sexual nature of the objects by candidly displaying them for the viewer’s eye, but then remystify their intent by divorcing them from their sexual context via arrangement in the manner of conventional still lifes. Rendered in this liminal state, the meaning becomes ambiguous. Are the objects meant to incite outcries of scandal and obscenity, or merely to invoke the viewer’s inner anxieties about sexuality? To comment on the excesses of, or to celebrate, sexuality in today’s culture? Or, are the objects rendered primarily for their aesthetic beauty?’
See more of Pat’s work at Pat Hobaugh ~ Still Lifes.
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