Bruce LaBruce
dal 26/9/2002 al 2/11/2002
Segnalato da
26/9/2002
Bruce LaBruce
Peres Projects, San Francisco
Peres projects is pleased to present the first West Coast solo exhibition of photographs by filmmaker, writer, and photographer Bruce LaBruce. The exhibition will feature recent works taken during the casting of LaBruce's films, shooting for porn and fashion magazines as well as his own casting calls.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Peres projects is pleased to present the first West
Coast solo exhibition of photographs by filmmaker,
writer, and photographer Bruce LaBruce. The
exhibition will feature recent works taken during the
casting of LaBruce's films, shooting for porn and
fashion magazines as well as his own casting calls.
LaBruce was an early producer of homo punk
fanzines which helped launch the so-called
Homocore or Queercore movement. In the 1990s he
expanded his artistic activities to include filmmaking
with the release of such films as "No Skin Off My
Ass" (1991), "Hustler White" (1996), and "Skin
Flick" (1998/1999). His films have appeared in
major film festivals including Sundance, Cannes,
London, Berlin, Dublin, Thessaloniki, Toronto,
Vancouver, Tokyo and San Francisco. Most recently,
LaBruce has been using photography to further his
artistic vision with shows in the US, Canada and
Europe. His photographs also regularly appear in
porn and fashion magazines such as Honcho, Dutch
and Index.
LaBruce's photography, like his films, explores, exposes and ultimately challenges dominant cultural expectations
of sexual behavior. He showcases radical sexual practices with underrepresented model "types" in order to
question our attitudes on pleasure, pain, beauty, life and everything in between. His work assimilates strong
influences from the world of high fashion and commercial advertising to the low cultural genres of pornography and
trash TV. By constantly shinning a bright light into the dark crevices of human thought, LaBruce's work challenges
societal norms and expands on notions of permissible thought. While often crude, rude, and decadent, LaBruce's
work is unapologetic and ultimately achieves a level of beauty unique in contemporary photography. LaBruce
shows with Bailey Fine Arts in Toronto and MC MAGMA in Milan and has also had shows in NYC at Alleged
Gallery and in Vancouver at the Pitt Gallery.
Reception for the Artist: Friday, September 27th, 6 -9pm
Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12-6pm or by appointment
peres projects
1800 Bryant Street
Suite 210
San Francisco, California 94110 USA
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