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Disclaimer: Raw Material

April 30, 2014 By John Rankine Leave a Comment

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Key West artists were invited to participate in “Raw Material,” a one-night “raw and uncensored” exhibit organized in a large abandoned shrimping warehouse on Stock Island in 1995. The theme was sex. I created a collection of 20 found–object assemblages combined with Polaroid’s. As a gay artist living in Key West during the height of the AIDS epidemic, this would be the perfect vehicle to explore the forbidden topic of gay sex and culture at the time in a very personal way. Many of the photographs are self –portraits, putting myself “out there” in ways I never thought I could. Inspired by out gay artists Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz, who had both succumbed to AIDS and whose art was both graphic and personal, I summoned the creative courage to tackle this still “taboo” subject.

Raw 1 Venus Envy-2 Raw 2 Glory_ Raw 3 Pray_ Raw 4 Innocence_ Raw 5 Enter Do Not Enter 1_ Raw 6 Titillation _ Raw 7 Surrender_ Raw 8 The Future_ Raw 9 Love theme 1-2 Raw 10 jesus loves you  2_ Raw 11 Bliss_ Raw 12 The Shaman-2 Raw 13 Voyeur_ Raw 14 Glamour_ Raw 15 Warrior ok_ Raw 16 Rim_ Raw 17 Deflated_raw materials LOSS_

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