“Sex, Sex and Death”, Louis B. James Gallery, New York, New York, October 27 - December 7, 2013
Literature
“No More Taboos: Brad Phillips Paints Against the Puritans,” interview with “Blouin ArtInfo”, November 30, 2015 [online]
This work and its title hold an obvious reference to Gustav Courbet’s “The Origin of the World” (1866), however, the artist argues that it is more about the intimacy of the moment rather than exploitative imagery of women by a male artist. In an interview with “Blouin ArtInfo” on the eroticism of some of his works, Phillips explains: “My work has always depicted intimate parts of my life; my life has always involved being in intimate relationships with women; and those relationships, of course, are also sexual…once I saw it all hanging in the gallery, it really seemed less and less like pornography to me, and more like intimacy and romance.”
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Brad Phillips - Against Courbet, Flipped | Cowley Abbott
