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Art James Gobel: Bear Hunting

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Between the scene-stealing bear family in John Waters' A Dirty Shame (2004), the fuzzy visage of the Scissor Sisters' Babydaddy, and the often ruggedly masculine models in BUTT magazine, the brawny, hirsuite, and bearded have found new purchase within alternaqueer sex-symbol culture. James Gobel's candy-colored portraits of hunky, hairy men — intricately composed of felt marquetry and paint — certainly make that case. But all that glitters isn't gold: Gobel's reclining, Rubenesque dandies seem too absorbed in their own fabulous reveries (or else simply tweaked-out) to really notice who's doing the ogling. Hey, no one ever said it was easy being pretty.

– Matt Sussman

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Note: There is an opening reception for the artist on Sat Feb 16 (5-7pm).

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