Davide
dell'Acqua. From
origfinal pen and ink drawings this artist creates powerful digital
cyber art featuring erotic male and female images and architectural
forms. A mysterious highly sensual quality permeates the work of
this gifted artist from
Como, Italy. (May 2008 Site of the Month). Aleuyar. A
visually fascinating site featuring net.art, digital art, web pages,
literature, culture and photography (Castellano). Charles
Alexander: His collage, mixed media, acrylics, watercolors,
prints, and 3D constructs are energetic-- bursting with color,
line and movement. Augie
Alvarez, Phinix Grafix. Paintings and photography. Kalliope
Amorphous.
artist and self-taught phootgrapher working with the self portrait
as a means of exploring ideas of identity, gender, myth and archetype. Paolo
Angelotti. Sculpture
in metal and wood by the Italian artist. Francis
Bacon: Even
as old as I am, it doesn't stop me from looking at men...as if anything
might happen, as if life were about to start again;
often when I go out
in the evening I flirt as if I were only 50. We ought to be able
to change
our engines. This is the artist’s privilege—to be ageless.
Passion keeps you young, and passion and liberty are so seductive.
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty
of painting. -In
conversation, August 13, 1973. Wolfgang
Bauer. An
Austrian born oil painter and artist, Wolfgang is known for his expansive
use of canvas.
Educated in Europe and America,
he has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. and many other countries.
(April 2007 Site of the Month) Robert
Roane Beard, recent
paintings, watercolors and drawings from South Africa by the
New York-based artist. Kurt
von Behrmann. Visual artist, arts writer and published
poet living and working in Phoenix, Arizona. Claudio
Bindella. Gay, Italian artist in Milan. His paintings
mainly concern gay themes and male portraits. Simon
Bell. New paintings of the human body fragmented, by
the London artist. Luis
BlancSimon
Bell. New paintings of the human body fragmented, by the
London artist.hard. Argentine
artist from La Rioja whose colorrful "paintings from the end of the world" masterfully
blend European influences
with pre-Columbian designs. (March 2007 Site of the Month) Richard
Bolingbroke. Lush,
joyous and vivid watercolors and monotypes of flowers. (Sept. 2008 Site
of the Month) Marie
Bourdages: Mady
is an amazing Canadian Lesbian painter from Montreal whose
works range from abstract seascapes with fabulous whales to
haunting
figurative works mostly of women and androgynous characters. (July
2005 Site of the Month) Michael
Breyette.Studio1088 celebrates the athletic male form,
though you will find fantasy and whimsical works as well. Romaine
Brooks. She
is one of a handful of lesbian painters from the early 20th Century
for whom we have substantial documentation. Lots of images. (Text
in Italian) ---website is temporarily down--- Hilton
Brown: "I
like to look at men. My earliest memory of what I now realize
was
sexual desire was directed towards another boy. That reality
has been a constant focus throughout my long life as a man
and artist. Since I believe self expression is the reason to
be an artist, then it follows that my sexual desire as a gay
male is the subject of my art." Works on paper
and canvas spanning 40 years with nearly 30 devoted to the
male form. Highly recommended. (Site of the month: January
2006) Marco
Brown Maltese
artist who exhibits in Tel Aviv. "Marco's paintings are
Zen meditations that let you immerse yourself in them.
They glow
and one feels a light emanating out of them. A single stroke
of colour either delinates or creates a visual field and
the positive and negative spaces intermingle creating
a sensual dance to delight the senses." -Bernadette
da Cunha, Artist and Film Director, India. David
Carr. Male
figures painted by David Carr occupy a void; sometimes
taking over the canvas, or just intruding onto it, but their
realistic, almost
photographic, treatment and his use of light to carve the
figure from the background seek to draw the eye into each
work and captivate the viewer. Ray
Castro. Surrealistic
solutions to personal issues of a gay man, in oil on canvas. Paul
Chisholm. Beautiful
paintings of the male form by young Brtish artist. Peter
Colstee. "Painter of the male nude and other stuff." Francisco
Córdoba.
Painting by the Costa Rican-born artist living and working in
Rome, Italy. Federico
Correa. Contemporary oil paintings by the California-born
artist. Xavier
Cortada, paintings
by the Cuban-American gay artist, attorney and activist. Rob
Costin. Paintings
and drawings in a very attractive site. Howard
Cruse. The kid
from Alabama moved to the big city and became an underground
cartoonist and gay activist. Martin
Davies, Australian artist using the idea of a labyrinth
to display his art online. Danny
Boy Studio.
Danny Babineaux creates Artwork of Hairy Bears, Daddies, Mature
Men
and Muscle. He works in oil, acrylic and graphite. He has become
quite well known in the Mature/Bear Communities and sells his
work worldwide. (May '07 Site of
the Month) Greg Denton. Bold
oil on canvas paintings and poetry by the Washington, D.C. based
artist.Drub. Digital
illustrations combine photo-pornography with a comic book aesthetic,
mixed with humor and pop culture references. The subject matter draws
upon images of punks, skaters, skinheads and blue collar workers. Bart
Dick. Fine homo-eotic
male art Paper Cuttings and Drawings. Homosexuality as part of
nature and related to otherworlds. Bruce
Eves: Bruce
has two sites you'll want to visit, an introduction to his work,
and My
Idea of Fun, conceptually-based digital work which
navigates the area between desire and despair. Fagart.
Work by Dan Pillers. "My intent is not to lessen or dismiss the
work of others but rather to acknowledge the individual perspectives,
issues of concern and facts of life, as seen through the eyes of gay
men." Daniel
Ferguson Gay Canadian artist and illustrator. Peter
Flinsch. "I try to communicate the beauty of the body,
of the male body, of the human body, and in a very positive sense.
I'm not trying to take the body apart - I see it as a whole. I'm
optimistic about the body. I say yes to the body. I don't deny
it. I never have." Sandrine
Follère.
Featuring sculpture, pastels, watercolors and paintings by the
French artist. (Jan
'09 Site of the Month) Peter
Foss. Focusing on the vibrant gay scene in Berlin,
Germany, he seeks to explore elements of the fetish scene
including subjects
such as modern gay leathermen, rubber, uniforms, bondage, and skin
identities. Foss' paintings also depict the more mature male body. Ann
Foster In all patriarchies images pervade of women as victims,
passive onlookers or receptacles. In her courageous work Ann utilizes the
very archetypes that define us turning and twisting them slowly and curiously
into 'Warrior Women.' Why not visit onlline this talented Lesbian Artist
from the small town of Scarborough,England? (Nov.
'05 Site of the Month) Michael
Freed. This artist from Santa Fe, New Mexico, works
with the male figure in mixed media on panel. "I'm interested
in the male nude in the context of composing the body as landscape.
Rather than photo realism, I seek an emotional or even ethereal
approach to the male form." (Feb.
'06 Site of the Month) Richard
Freeman.
A wide range of subject matter, but best-known for his vivid
portraits. Gay-Art.ru.
Alexey and Alexey – two gay Russian artists in Moscow
– believe
gay art should be present in everyday surroundings: "We hope it
will decorate your life and the interior of your house." In addition
to their paintings, drawings, and sculptures, they create
original hand painted glass clocks, plates and pendants. Gilbert
and George: The
official website is down, but check out the ArtEncyclopedia for
a list of their online exhibitions and articles. Andrew
Georgiou:Graphic
artist and creator of the comic
strip "Mr. Gisby's Totally Gay Pet Shop" which is
internationally syndicated and in print in over 100 cites worldwide.
The antics
of his homo-animals deal with gay issues in a way
that skillfully undermines gay bigotery. Comic strips are one
of the great popular art forms of our time and this strip explores
the most sensitive gay issues with disarminghumor. Bob
Gregory, bronze statue art representing the Nude Male form
including erotic artthat ranges from partial nudity to explicit
gay male expression. Aurelio
Grisanty, Dominican born artist, served as Director and
professor of Graphic Design in both Catholic and Autonoma Universities
in
Santo Domingo City.
His work has captivated audiences on three continents since his
first solo show in 1974. (Feb. '01 Site of the Month) The
Art of Hafeez. Autumn,
flowers, and human feelings are the inspiration for Hafeez's
oil-on- canvas paintings. Adam
Halicki is an international working artist specializing
in paintings and drawings: erotic, portrait and travel impressions.
His art works
are in major\collections. in Canada, USA and Germany. Paul
Hamilton.(temporarily closed) Aged 28 and with no formal
art education, Paul was featured in a prestigious coffee-table
homoerotica
book
and
given the tag "oneof the world's greatest photographers." "I'm
hardly all that," he says, "and still unemployed/homeless/poverty-struck.
But I'm beginning to sell some prints online and have further book
projects in the works and a lot of critical praise accumulating." Check
out his site and see why.(July '02 Site of the Month) Edd
Tokarz Harnas. Blog
showing paintings and drawings, portraits andfigures of this
Honolulu based graphic artist. Moxy Hart. Enter
the colourful vibrant world of this SouthAfrican artist. Homoerotic
art, portraits and studies of the male figure in
oils. Becki
Jayne Harrelson. Fine
art exploring religious mythology and
contemporary
social issues. Kenneth
Hemmerick explores the creative deconstruction and reconstruction
of gaypornographic images found on the Internet. Kole
Bentley Hicks: "In
its simplest form my work represents the
deconstruction and reformation of identity;" abstract and figurative paintings by San Francisco artist, (March 2010 Site of the Month). Rinaldo
Hopf is a visual artist using
painting, photography and installation.
He deals
with issues of Queer identity, history,
rebellion, beauty and ecstasy. Ken
Hurd.
British artist who creates original screenprint
paintings on canvas or small editions on paper. Subject matter
ranges from flowers to male nudes. Iko
Studio. Italian stained glass studio of Diego Tolomelli
who produces the world's first homo-eotic stained glass panels
(June '08 Site of the Month). Alan
Bennett Ilagan. This website features the writing, photography,
articles, and projects reflecting the life of a gay
man making
his way in the world. His first solo photography, "The Eye
of the Ego", a visual meditation on the battle between
the artist and the ego, took place in 2008 at the Capital
DIstrict Gay and Lesbian Community Center in Albany,
NY. Scott
Jeffs. Gay
artist from Portland, Oregon, Scott's work includes award-winning
pencil drawings, pastel landscapes and other works on paper.
Inspired by Michelangelo's drawings, his emphasis
is on classical and contemporary studies of the male figure. (July
'08 Site of the Month). Jeff
Junker – aka
Jeff Flasher – is
a gay graphic artist actively creative since his
teenage
years. Different punk scenes, especially the street punk scenes,
have
influencd
his work which uses
both profession materials and household items. He's a member of Gay Men,
Hardcore Punk and Let There Be Rock! at
Redbubble. David
King. Gay artist,
based in San Francisco, who creates traditional cut and paste
collages on the themes of sexuality, spirituality and HIV. Chris
Komater is
reinvigorating the male nude tradition in photography. His website
brings the same spirit of innovation to the Internet. That's
why we've selected it as (Feb. '99 Site
of the Month). Krayel
Art Studio offers an eclectic array of styles, themes and
subject matter, from celebrity portraits and abstracts to photo
realistic figurative works. Clarke Lane:
an artist, teacher and activist living and working in Providence,
Rhode Island. "My hope is that this site will be an intervention
into the homogenization of culture and life and not a reproduction
of existing
queer sites. Max
Lawrence. Website
includes a portfolio of abstract work and an extensive slide
portfolio including figurative, photography, and video works. Jeff
Long. Long's
poetic paintings and works on paper encompass both religious
symbolism and postmodern theory. Loren
J. Macias. The
ButchDick collection. Just what it sounds like: very Tom ofFinland,
but at the same time, oddly elegant. Madwillow
Creekhouse, a
gallery dedicated to the work of American artist William Joseph
Petrie. Mara
McWilliams is a bipolar Lesbian artist who shares her
voice through her art and writing galleries. From mental health articles
to essays
on the legalization of same sex marriage, her Recovery Through Art
website touches on it all. The site is also filled with valuable mental
health and LGBT links. Barry
Margolin. Creator of Painted Screen Productions, a website
showing story-board Ken doll animated gay streaming videos dealing
with
iconoclastic Christian subject matter and S&M bondage with
whips and cattle prods. We expect to see Margolis' films soon at
the major international gay film festivals! Catch them here first
and free! Nicolaas
Maritz. A South African artist whose colorful, bittersweet
work is morecamp than overt, more peculiar than queer. Mara
McWilliams. Outta My Head and In Your Face is a selection
of poetry anartwork that chronicles Mara's journey through the
depths of mental illness todiagnosis and recovery. Lawrence
E. Miller. Mixed
Images Gallery: multi-media artwork. Sebastian
Moreno. Paintings by
the Mexican artist. Dale
Moses. Bright colors and simple images reflect artist
Dale Moses' puckishview of life. Nikias,
designer of an erotic gay themed male jewelry at Esculpta, an
ongoing project focused on promoting select works art that are created
in limited quantities by free spirited artists and artisans
that define their own aesthetic views and principles. These creators
intend to stay independent and free from creating designs for mass
production and to develop their work imaginatively and creatively. Blue
Fox Gallery, Tony Ivie & Wayne Noffsinger artists,
Etna Wyoming. Stoneware, raku and wood-fired pottery. Hand
sculpted masks and contemporary jewelry. Etna, Wyoming. Evan
Oberholster. Paintings focus on the nude within contemporary
culture, particularly within the South African context. Andrew
Ogus.
Mixed media works on paper, celebrating the beauty of men and exploring
ancient mythologies in homoerotic terms. Per
Olund. This Swedish artist's main interest is
the image as language, He focuses on the
enigma of the male sexuality. "Grotesque pictures which depictslustfulness," writes
Olle Bergqvist. Michael
Onona: Art of the New. Combining technical excellence
with powerful and unnerving imagery, Michael Onona' s paintings
concentrate on depicting and conveying human emotion. Through personal
and unconventional
visions of beauty his imagery suggests a spiritual depth that challenges
our perceptions. (Dec.2000 Site of the Month) H.
Avni Oztopcu. Turkish painter dealing with "the problems
of putting the abstractworld which has been established in our
minds into an objective shape." PeepsShow.
Dedicated to the sugary goodness of Marshmallow Peeps andMarshmallow
Bunnies. They're not just for Easter anymore! Raphael
Perez. Oil paintings,
acrylics and illustrations. Michael
Pfleghaar. An
artist living and working in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His oilpastel
drawings and oil paintings are colorful still-lives and interior
studies. Player
Gallery: Darkly erotic and sometimes disturbing paintings
with a biastowards religious and skinhead imagery. Craig
Poindexter. Costume and setdesign and new media graphics
are some ofthe influences in his fine paintings. Egon
Posselt. German painter who has created gay art for over
50 years. His colorful paintings and black & white drawings
are either expressionistic or realistic in style and range in subject
matter from erotic male nudes, to landscapes and flowers. His erotic
art can be quite whimsical such as his pre-cum leaking banana and hiscock
head of John as required by Salome. Queeristics is
a website showing queer drawing, illustration and thought.
How is what someone called a “queer activist lifestyle” represented
in drawings? And how can theory input flow back into artwork?
Hamburg based aritist, CHRIS CAMPE is looking to connect
with other people who are into drawing and illustration
and queer activism and theory. (Aug. 2008 - Site of the
Month). . Rainbow
Warrior. With colors derived from the rainbow flag, RD's
paintings tell the stories of our communities. Jacki
Randall. Self-taught
artist, musician/writer whose work first appeared in the early
80's queer press. Included are spiritual
and erotic paintings, illustration,cartoons, and tattooing. Paul
Richmond. "Drawing
upon my own experiences as a young man who was raised in a conservative,
Midwestern environment and struggled to come to terms with my homosexuality,
I explore deeply personal feelings, insecurities, fears and triumphs
in this collection of new paintings titled "Ins and Outs." (June
2007 - Site ofthe Month!) Rob. Bound
In Ink is bear art b/w drawings by Rob, a gifted West Virginia artist
and graduate of the Arts Institute of Philadelphia. Web galleries show
his recent
and commissioned
works. James
R. Reinke: Works in a variety
of media, including inks, paints, prints and 3-D.The one constant is
subject matter: male
nudes; gay centric; some female nudes. Robert
Rootenberg. Diseased and injured victims, scars, bruises,
nails and wire, botched surgeries, car wrecks and prosthetic devices:
this is the world that reflects my work. Alex
Alien Russell: School of Francis Bacon Website displays
figure and portrait paintings influenced by Bacon. Ira
C. Smith. Erotic illustrator extrordinaire of the leather community
with varied subject matter including rarely seen lesbian bondage. San
Francisco Gay and Lesbian Artist Alliance is a group of
Gay and Lesbian artists, craftspeople and photographers who share
ideas to collectively exhibit their work. Scattergood-Moore
Drawings: award
winning charcoal portrait drawings along with interesting pages
on Queer Culture, GLBT artists and resources. Aaron
Sciandra.Graphic artist and sculptor who works
with various media includingvideo, paper, neon, metal and
candy. Check it
out! Nov.
2006 Site of the Month. Philip
Shadbolt. Australian
born gay artist based in the UK creates colorful, intricate
paintings and prints influenced by his extensive travels throughout
India Tejal
Shah. Tejal
is a visual artist working with video,
photography and installation in Bombay, India. (June
'09: Site of the Month) Douglas
Simonson. This
internationally celebrated artist works in Honolulu and has
been painting professionally for nearly 30
years. His website is his gallery, andcontains over
2,500 Simonson works. April.
2009 Site of the Month. Trevor
Southey. Reconciliation:
Africa/Family/Mormon/Gay, a retrospective of the artist's paintings
and drawings over the past thirty years. Scott
Andrew Spencer. "Being gay is a gift, a variation
on a theme. Love is too powerful to be shaped or confined," states
this self taught painter, influenced by Max Beckmann and
Milton Avery, whose paintings are featured at the 123 Sohoweb
gallery. John
Steczynski. Tradition,
Creativity, and the Liturgical Artist. Kim A. Stringfellow's The
Charmed Horizon is
a meditation on desire, enchantment, loss and renewal-- and one
of the most beautiful sites we've seen in a long time. (Dec.'98
Site of the Month) Trygve
Skogrand. Norwegian artist from Oslo who makes homoerotic
art. He worksin digital media, photography and traditional
paint. Alvin
Tapia. Paintings evoke emotions of serenity, happiness and peace. E.A.
Taylor. In a world of uncertainty, conflict and brutality,
Taylor's animal paintings are reassuring, charming and amusing.
They capture and reflect the personality and spirit that explains
why we love our pets so much. (Dec. '02 Site of the Month) Skye
Thorstenson. Gay
Natve-American/Norwegian film installation artist. His
Lost Head Factory, Manufacturers of Conjuration, presents
his
latest films and over a dozen interesting digital art projects.
Michael
Tice. Semi-autobiographical
paintings explore desire and loss. Diego
Tolomelli:
artist who designs and produces, with IKO Studio, stained glass panels
in Rome.
The glass is kiln-fired at 650°C
fusing the special paints and enamels to the mouth-blown
glass. Tolomelli's gay themed panels
include The Kiss and Male Nude. Scott
Treleaven. Home
of the award-winning paganfaggotpunk filmmaker andwriter. Texts,
events, clips + photos. Real under-the-counter-culture. Henry
Scott Tuke, a gay painter of the Newlyn school. With
contemporary photographs of Tuke's world. Cristán
Vega. Moderrnist gay painter now
iliving in remote area of Chile who was unable
to obtain political asylum in the US after living 12
years in Los Angeles. Daryl
Vocat. A young Canadian artist
who has a lot to say: words and images
called "Infestant Propaganda." Powerful
and very funny. Christián
Vega.
Gay artist from Chile: "I
am motivated every day by the prospect that with
my work as an artist, as a painter,
as a gay
person,
but foremost and as human being that I can make an
impact with my work and inspire viewers by capturing
their
imagination and encouraging them to think of other
places, other worlds, other realities that they would
not have considered." Patrick
Webb: Punchinello Paintings. The Italian clown, with his
phallic nose and dunce cap, attracted Webb instantly. He describes
him as “a
little like Woody Allen, a bit of a buffoon. He was particular, but
also general. He could be repeated.
In Punchinello, I found an Everyman who in my paintings is Everygayman”. Ron
Weisberg. Paintings influenced by the
early Italian Renaissance. J.D.
Welch. "Before
the Altar" is a collection of new paintings by mixed-media
queer artist J.D. Welch incorporating themes from popular pornography,
art history, and African religion. artists
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Michelle Auboiron: Painting
in Action. Live painting, large size, where the essence of the figurative
and the vigorousness of the abstract are reconciled.
Jean
Claude Davreux . L'art
fantastique de Jean Claude Davreux.
Tony de Carlo is
a native Los Angeles painter who captures the spirit of gay Latino
California.
Maurice
Heerdink. Although it is easy to shock through art, I prefer
to create a tender, only slightly naughty eroticism that I call "playful
eroticism."
Dion
Hitchings. My art is primitive
narrative, childlike, colorful, self-revealing,
erotic, funny, strange and lots of
eyes. My inspirations come from many
places:
people I see and work with, dreams,
plants at
the nursery, news items, guests on
the Jerry Springer show and nature.
Roberta
Marinas. My recent body
of work addresses the deep spiritual life of manand his inward reflection.
My goal is to challenge our perceptions of spirituality and to delve
beneath the surface.
Maureen
Mullarkey. Of three portfolios of my work here, one is devoted
to images drawn from New York's Gay Pride Parade. I love medieval
art and am attracted to the Pride parade because it provides an example
of what Italo Calvino meant when he referred to "the neo-medievalization
of contemporary life." Also on site are uncommon paintings of traditional
subjects by eight other painters. It matters, I think, that gay subject
matter be presented within
a larger context--not cordoned off as ghetto art. (Aug. 2000 Site of the
Month)
Frederick
Nunley. Male Figure Drawings in a range of media.
Brenden
Sanborn. Sanborn's paintings accentuate
the beauty and trueness of theromantic
union and friendship between men.
Sands Murray-Wassink,
Amsterdam, Netherlands. "My work is primarily directed at a
gay/homosexual/queer white male American, European, and world audience
and anyone else who is interested."
Saved
By the Belles is an examination of
identity, sexuality and memory. The site showcases
many artworks by young and established queer
artists and invites the community to share
its vision. (Sept. '03: Site of
the Month)
Tulip
Enterprises. Berlin-based artists Hans Booy & Paulus
Fugers aim to reach beyond an artworld audience, by showing
their installations in international clubs and organizing
exhibitions in unusual places. Also visit: New
Community: Ironically attacking homophobia by producing "Anti-gay
Spray" and battling ignorance by building a giant walk-in
HIV-medicine box.
Tad
j van der Weele.
Abstract work, painting and ceramics by
the artist from New Mexico.
A.J.
Wagenhals is a gay
artist living in N.Y.C. who uses major nightclubs as the forum to display
his exuberant paintings.
The Art
of Steve Walker. "I paint about life, mine and
yours. My sexual orientation is unapologetically, simply part
of that." (July
'09 Site of the Month)
Queer(ring)
Warhol: Andy Warthol's Self-Portraits. Without
a doubt Andy Warhol is one of the most controversial and famous artists
of
the 20th
Century. But his place in art history is coming at a price: suppression
of his queer identity. This
important exhibition argues that Warhol visibly and consistently performed
a queer subjectivity. (Dec. '01 Site of the Month)
Albert Wilking.
Tererror Studio - Zombie com -The wonderful world of cloning.