"The unique perspective of this exhibition allows for the viewer to observe art of the nude and portraiture through the eyes of some of today’s most exciting new talents alongside works of the Modern era from which it was inspired. One can see clearly see the evolution of the nude through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries both aesthetically and conceptually, as one moves from Man Ray’s portraits of Kiki de Montparnesse (1928), to Bert Stern’s iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe (1962), and from David Hockney’s cubist, photo collage rendition of actress Theresa Russell (1983, pictured above) and finally onto Jessica Lichtenstein’s frolicking, computer generated lovelies. The viewer will witness dramatic shifts in how New Contemporary Art movements relate to the subjective concept of physical beauty and understand how today’s radical new ideas were informed by Modernism while at the same time trying to reject it’s tradition, just as Modernism was by Classicism of the nineteenth century."

- Kelli Delany, KDHamptons.com

Art Review 
#NSFW: Bodies Explores What It Means To Be Human

By Gabrielle Selz, Hamptons Art Hub 

 In 1959, the great theologian Paul Tillich wrote in his catalogue essay for the "New Images of Man" show at MOMA: "Whenever a new period is conceived in the womb of the proceeding period, a new image of man pushes towards the surface and finally breaks through to find its artist."

Each of the artists in the current show #NSFW: Bodies (for the uncool like me NSFW is an acronym for Not Safe For Work) is an aesthetically complex panorama of nudes and potraiture spanning that 20th century to present day. Painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture are represented by forms that have been distorted, abstracted, eroticize, mutilated, savaged and cartoonized.

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#NSFW Bodies: A Group Exhibition

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Art Review #NSFW: Bodies Explores What It Means To Be Human