About a month ago, Eli Wallace announced that she would be closing the venerable Gallery Assis, a premier venue for the display of erotic photography and art, but since then Joaopedro Oh has stepped in to resurrect the gallery in a new location and promises to carry on the tradition with an ongoing series of exhibitions. Tomorrow, Sunday, February 23, from 10 am to 12 noon slt, the gallery will reopen with a display of works by Joseph Nussbaum entitled Playing Cards, featuring a delightful conceptual presentation. Using the standard deck of playing cards as his inspiration, Joseph has created groupings of images by rank—jacks, queens, kings, aces and a joker—with suitably erotic images on each (women on the queen cards, men on the others). The jacks, queens and kings are designed in traditional playing card fashion, with the top image inverted below (click the lower image to see the queens), while the aces depict burly men in twosomes (above). (As for the joker, I won't spoil the surprise.)
Very nice post Ziki! Cheers! (I'm on Ace of Hearts card with my partner Chris)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Carl—maybe we will meet at the opening. :)
ReplyDeleteWonderful party and dance at the opening - thanks, Ziki, for your write-up and thanks for all the people that came to the party.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Joseph — sorry I missed the opening event, but I enjoyed the exhibition!
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