Posted August 19, 2006:
For Immediate Release
Press contact:
Tina Butcher; Curator of Traveling Erotic Art Show
femina_potens@yahoo.com
www.travelingeroticartshow.com
415/217-9340
Lifestyle Alternative Center presented by The Photographer's Guild Gallery
West Palm Beach, FLA
The Reception will run from 5pm - 9pm. Call 561 309 9879 or write dir@lifestylealternatives.org to RSVP for the Reception & directions.
The Traveling Erotic Art Show presents a kinky exhibition of curated mixed mediums including live performance art, video art, and photography on the subjects of kink, bondage, and fetishism on September 9th 2006 - LAC hosts the first Photographer's Guild Public Reception for the launch of the Traveling Erotic Art Show.
The show will run thru Oct. 1st Fri - Sun 6PM - 10PM or by appointment.
This show includes 11 world renowned artists who hail from all corners of our country from NYC to LA to Floridia to Seattle.
Artists for this 2006 touring exhibition include:
Steve Diet Goedde - Dave Naz - Barbara Nitke - Midori - James Mogul - Julie Simone - Lochai - Charles Gatewood - Steven Speliotis - Tina Butcher aka Madison Young - Chas Ray Krider
About the Artists:
Midori experienced a rich and paradoxical upbringing; born an raised in Japan, educated in the public school system with its traditions and arts while her all-female, feminist intellectual household provided the foundations for radical, independent thinking.
Currently, she is a full time writer and educator on sexuality and intimacy with emphasis on alternative sexuality. Her work includes, Wild Side Sex and Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage as well as many columns and magazine articles. Inspired by various traditional Japanese uses of rope in art, craft and sexual _expression, Midori does rope art as performance and sculpts, rigs and photographs her work.
James Mogul has been creating and photographing his own style of rope bondage erotica since the mid nineties. He has been called "one of the first prolific publishers of this new way of looking at rope" by Bizarre Magazine, and Jane's Guide says "James Mogul has been producing some of the most compelling bondage imagery in Western culture...". Eros Guide calls his work "exquisite rope bondage.some of the best we have ever seen."
Tina Butcher aka Madison Young is a writer for such magazines as On Our Backs, Bitch, Herbivore, and Girlfriends Magazine. She is currently working on her first novel, "The Tail of a Bondage Model". Tina is also a visual artist who shows at such galleries as ATA,Varnish Gallery,111 Minna, The Center for Sex and Culture and with The Traveling Erotic Art Show. When she is not creating art work she is either working as the executive director and founder of the Femina Potens Art Gallery and Performance Space or getting tied up in her career as a bondage model that lands her all over the world.
Lochai - "The best stories to tell come from the heart and everyone has something hidden that is bursting to come out”. Lochai feels that he can touch something within each person who views his work. “While shooting, the real person comes out thru their alter ego and this is what I try to capture."
As a lifestyle fetishist, Lochai sees the fetish scene from the inside & tries to convey the emotions as well as the visual aspect of fetish. His first book "occupied... fetish images for private viewing" is available thru his website...
Dave Naz - Born in Los Angeles in 1969, Dave Naz grew up at the intersection of Beverly Hills glamour and Hollywood grime. Chas Ray Krider describes Dave Naz as "a true southern California artist." He continues: His sexy imagery is casual without pretense. When one looks beyond the surface, the work is seen as much more: a cultural artifact giving clues to the sexual identities and persona of our time.
In 1987, his teenage years not yet behind him, Naz left high school and Southern California to make music and play along side bands including Nirvana, the Ramones, Mudhoney, L7, and others, packing clubs from the Ratskeller to the Marquee. In 1995, with no formal training, Naz picked up a camera and started photographing people.
Since 1998, Naz's photographs have appeared in more than thirty shows in galleries worldwide. His work has been featured in Black + White, FHM, GQ, Leg World, Maxim, Nerve, Salon, Stern.de, and other prominent venues. He is already the author of three well-received books with Goliath Press: Lust Circus (2002), Panties (2003), and Legs (2004). Though self-taught, his work has been praised by cultural artists as diverse as Lydia Lunch, Richard Kern, Gregory Dark, and Nina Hartley.
Barbara Nitke is a New York City artist dedicated to exploring issues of sexual relationship and desire through photography. Hailed by The Village Voice for her quest "to find humanity in marginal sex," Nitke has gained worldwide attention for her affecting and powerful photographs chronicling relationships between consenting adults engaged in sadomasochistic activities. Her documentation of sexuality began in 1982 on the sets of pornographic movies, where she worked for twelve years as a set photographer. Her haunting photographs from this period reveal the combination of boredom, surrealism, vulnerability and dissociation inherent in the X-rated world. During that time she also became active as a photographer on mainstream television and movie sets, which she continues today.
Charles Gatewood - When Charles Gatewood began photographing America's sexual underground in the mid-1960s, he was considered by many to be an obsessed eccentric whose concerns were extremely marginal. Today however, as public nudity, blatant exhibitionism, full body tattooing and piercing, extreme fetish practices and various forms of sadomasochistic excess have entered mainstream culture, Gatewood's photographs appear not only artistically and historically significant, but also uncannily prophetic.
Julie Simone - I am many people wrapped into one person. At the very core, I am an artist who employs different tools, whether it be a camera, a pen, or a paintbrush, to get it out. On-going projects include the identity series which sets out to examine where our identities come from and how we arrive at them. I currently reside in Los Angeles, Ca, where I continue to model, shoot portfolios, and create art.
Steven Speliotis - first became recognized as a professional photographer in Boston, Ma. where his early photographs of dance & portraiture were exhibited in several juried shows winning him much acclaim.
Speliotis' first photography book titled, ASIA BONDAGE"published by Goliath Books and named one of the Best Books of 2002 by Michelle7 Fine Art Nude Gallery Speliotis'"bondage" series has been exhibited in solo shows in New York, Boston, Berlin & Italy, and part of several group shows in New York, numerous magazines and featured guest artist on several websites galleries.
Steve Diet Goedde - I've had an interest in photography since I was very young. My father had a small darkroom in our house when I was growing up in St. Louis. He used it primarily to develop and print photographs from our many family vacations. When I was old enough, he taught me the very basics of darkroom work, and that was pretty much my only training as a photographer. I never studied it in school.
In high school, I started taking a serious interest in photography. Besides taking pictures, I also started studying other photographers' styles and techniques. I quickly became obsessed with Richard Avedon and Diane Arbus. Like most new photographers, I started out trying to mimic the styles of my heroes, but I quickly realized that I had my own style and aesthetic to develop. I used my friends as subjects and concentrated on straight portraiture.
In 1998, I decided I needed a change of scenery and made the decision to move to a new city and most importantly, a new environment. I left the murky gray city of Chicago and headed out to the color-saturated landscape of Southern California. It was there that I made a whole new group of friends and collegues who ultimately helped me forge my new style of photography. My first three years in California produced most of the work found in my second book, "The Beauty of Fetish: Volume II" (also on Edition Stemmle).
Links for Artists
Lochai
www.kirinawa.com
James Mogul
www.mogulimages.com
Tina Butcher
www.tinabutcher.com
Dave Naz
www.davenaz.com
Barbara Nitke
www.barbaranitke.com/
Charles Gatewood
www.charlesgatewood.com
Steven Speliotis
www.speliotis.com/
Steve Diet Goedde
www.stevedietgoedde.com/
Chas Ray Krider
www.motelfetish.com
Julie Simone
www.deconstructedbeauty.com
