Zach Grear is a writer and self-taught artist living in Brooklyn, NY. His art specializes in the vintage gay porn magazines he used to shoplift as a teenager. His aim is to lift gay erotic imagery into an exalted plane. He uses markers to manually draw tattoo imagery and collages in floral backgrounds that he’s photographed.

Recurring words and symbols in the tattoos add to the distortion, morphing the original intent of the image without dulling its erotic lure. Lust is a necessary part of the medium, both the artists and the viewers. Grear’s artwork also includes portraits of his personal heroes along with peers in the contemporary Queer art scene.