Link to images from the exhibition

In the dead of winter Platform Gallery is pleased to present Intercourse, a hot group show of work that takes the physical sexual contact between individuals as its central theme. Each of the artists in the show approach the subject from different mediums, intensities, and points of view.

Ken Weaver draws dense large scale gothic scenes of orgiastic decadence, meticulously rendered in pastel on paper. Ken received his MFA from Long Island University and has had solo shows in New York, Paris, and Toulouse.

Raven Schlossberg culls images from fashion, lifestyle, and porn magazines and seductively collages them into dense layers combined with calligraphic ink or paint drawings. She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute and she has had solo shows in Germany, Switzerland, Brussels, Paris, and New York.

Carl James Ferrero's bright watercolors bring private sexual proclivities and fetishes into public view. He received his MFA from Brooklyn College/CUNY. His work has been shown in New York, Los Angeles, and Italy.

Tracy Nakayama makes bold and tender paintings inspired by the romanticized filter of carefree porn of the 1960s and 70s. She received her MFA from the School of the Visual Arts in New York and has shown her work in Los Angeles, Chicago, Frankfurt, and at P.S. 1 in New York. She currently has a solo show in Tokyo.

Ray Beldner found himself looking past the sex in porn internet sites to the art on the walls. His ink jet prints of enlarged low-rez jpgs crop out the intimacy in order to reveal the banality of the settings for anonymous sex. He received his MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California and his work is in the permanent collections of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., the San Jose Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.

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