......is a contemporary painter based out of Stamford, Ct/Manhattan that uses cheap downloadable internet pornography, and paints the scenes in a late renaissance/baroque -ish style. he replaces the bleach blonde hair and exaggerated faces with porcelain skin and textile patterns of the time. he draws much attention to the idea of kitch/low art by taking something that is supposedly cheap and artless and interprets it in a "classy" or avant garde sort of way. he is clearly using craft and medium as a way to question the idea of high and low art and the role of pornography in our culture.
it begs the question, can pornography be high art?
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