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For the past 5 years, I made a series of 200 pool paintings. Pools were great metaphors for adjacent environments that are different. The outside world and the world of the pools have distorted views of each other and yet are the same world. So they were for me the gay community alongside the broader world, and allowed me to explore the relationships within that world. There are currently 17 left from the series and I am working on the next series for 2025. I grew up in Southern California and have my MFA from Rutgers University.

Bryan Hobein is an artist living and working in Astoria, Oregon. He received a BFA in illustration from the Memphis College of Art in 2019. His watercolor paintings center around the ideas of sexuality, comfort, stillness and how they’re contained and expressed in the male form.

Internationally collected art Richard Vyse has shown in galleries in Manhattan, Boston,Honolulu and Paris. He studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and taught at Pratt in Brooklyn. His art has been featured in many international art magazines. His art is in the Leslie Lohman Museum in Manhattan.

Born in Chicago, Joseph A Kaminski received a BFA in Painting from the University of Illinois in 1980 and moved to New York City that same year where he continues to live on the Upper West Side. Like generations of artists before him, Kaminski is drawn to the human form to personify classical ideals of beauty, balance and harmony. As a gay man and artist, he celebrates the human body with an unapologetic and clear queer sensibility. Kaminski also explores botanical imagery, abstract form and photography. Kaminski was represented by the Amos Eno Gallery in NYC from 1989 to 1995, and the Cortland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, MA from 1991 to 1997. Several of his penis paintings were included in the feminist exhibition “True Phallacy: the Myth of Male Power” at the Michael Clark Gallery in Washington, D.C. in 1994 resulting in images of his work being published in Penthouse magazine and the Italian publication, L’espresso.Several of his works are included in the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art collection, and one painting was featured in their 2009 exhibition and catalogue, “Treasures of Gay Art from the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation.” In 2019 and 2020, Kaminski participated in 2 group shows at the Blackbird Gallery in Chelsea, and at the pop-up exhibition “Uncensored: Queer Art” and “Works At Home” at ARTpartment NYC, both in Brooklyn. In 2022 through 2024, he exhibited with the Art y Honey pop up galleries in the East Village, on the Upper West Side and in Crown Heights; and with DoableGuys in the Erotic Art Trunk Shows on Fire Island, at Art Gaysel in Provincetown, MA, and at the SoHo Project Space. Kaminski contributes work annually to the Postcards from the Edge benefit for Visual AIDS.

Born in Southern Oregon, moved to Portland Oregon. Bachelors Science - Interior Design 2007-2010- MFA Interior Architecture & Design. 2011-2015. Profession = Interior Architecture. Extensive world travel and lived in Brasil and China. I enjoy produsing a veriety of different styles, techniques and media. Currently showing formal fine arts in abstract AUTO Jumble series of large format Acrylic on Canvas, parallel to bespoke 30's & 40's style Coachwork Illustrations of Custom-one off bodies for Rolls-Royce motor cars. Also working on my Continental collection of works based on my world travels.

October Joe is an artist working in traditional mediums to reflect the physicality of queer experience, using the body as a vehicle to express intimacy, sensation and emotion.

Nick has spent his entire life drawing and painting - most recently with a sharpened focus on the male form. He has been drawn to figurative art ever since studying in Italy during college in an art program called ‘the renaissance apprentice’ where he spent 3 months using original techniques and materials, and drawing inspiration from master sculptures at the Bargello, Ufizzi, and the Vatican. He enjoys drawing from life whenever possible. He particularly enjoys the rendering of quiet moments, voyeurism that romanticizes the male form, and incorporating nature wherever possible.

Sarah Fishbein is a contemporary mosaic artist based in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. For over 20 years, Fishbein has been a force of innovation in the world of visual imagery. Her journey began with traditional forms of photography and video production, but in recent years her craft has undergone a remarkable evolution. Sarah has found her voice in the realm of pop art mosaics, blending her respect for pop art with the romance comics and characters of the 1950s and 60s, creating a vibrant, modern, pop culture in glass. Her unique approach isn't just about aesthetics. Fishbein has pioneered a fusion of stained glass and mosaic techniques, crafting pieces that are as technically profound as they are visually captivating. While her works draw from the past, they resonate with contemporary themes—feminism, empowerment, sexuality, and the intricacies of today's relationships. More than just an artist, Fishbein is a storyteller. Her mosaics, rich with history and current narratives, invite viewers on a journey through time. With two decades of experience and an ever-evolving style, Fishbein continues to shape and redefine the mosaic landscape.

James Falciano (b. 1989) is a Brooklyn based illustrator. They received a BFA in Visual Arts with a concentration in Painting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2011. Their work is centered on exploring and celebrating Queer identity, sexuality and expression. In addition to their own personal works, James has worked on commissioned portraits, promotional posters for Queer nightlife, album covers and ad campaigns.

James is a composite photographer prominently featured in the likes of Artnet and Create! Magazine. His solo exhibitions include the likes of New York, Miami, and Paris, and his recent works have had a successful reception in both queer spaces (Art Gaysel, 2023) and in high design settings (Architectural Digest, 2020). Visual fables focused on the sensitive beauty of men have increasingly become the focus of James’ work. Also a passionate musician, James intertwines his two creative ambitions with photos inspired by his favorite songs. An ongoing project, each image aims to strike the feeling of the song and transform that feeling into a universal image. James Miille is also a versatile force at Superfine Art Fair, bringing a profound aesthetic sensibility to the fair’s curation, artist relationships, and web development. His multi-faceted approach enriches the organization’s visual narrative. In addition to Superfine, James served as a curatorial juror for ArtSpan’s AMPLIFY awards in San Francisco last year and will be the sole juror for Nalin Kamat’s showcase of young artists under 18 at Little EGG Gallery’s NYC opening this spring.

Born in Spain, Pepe danced professionally for 15 years (West End, Cirque du Soleil,…). It was performing at Zumanity in Las Vegas where he discovered his love for fashion illustration through the costume design of Thierry Mugler and marvelous illustrations of Stefano Canuli. After dancing with Celine Dion in two of her consecutive summer tours, in January 2019 Pepe became Celine’s fashion stylist and creative consultant, pursuing his career as an illustrator at the same time as traveling the world with the singer. Styling her musicians for the Courage World Tour and assisting in the show creation, as well as styling Madame Dion together with Sydney Lopez. Pepe considers himself mainly a fashion illustrator - ink and watercolor mostly - even though he is also very passionate about the male anatomy and the erotism within it. He uses watercolors, pastels, pencil, charcoals and any sort of medium he finds to portray the male form. Pepe is back on stage touring the US with Moulin Rouge the Musical as he continues to pursue his passion as a fashion illustrator, with clients including Carolina Herrera, VOGUE Runway, Messika, AmFar, Manolo Blahnik and FABER CASTELL, amongst others.

Michael Epps is a photographer, and native New Yorker, focused primarily on portraiture and the male form.

Caleb Clark is a self taught artist based in Birmingham, AL. His work holds focus on the human figure and abstract portraiture, exploring narrative and feeling through color. Caleb works in a variety of mediums including watercolor, oil pastel, acrylic, and oil paint.

Cole Puetz (b.1998, Phoenix, AZ) is a Brooklyn-based figurative painter who has been working in the medium for over six years. Formally trained as a microbiologist, Puetz has dedicated years studying classic and contemporary oil painting techniques to inform a personal style that expresses individual experiences as a queer individual.

Brad Hoseley (b.1996, Idaho) is an artist based in New York City. Hoseley received a BFA in Printmaking from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland Oregon. He has shown work in Portland, Omaha, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and New York City. The work Hoseley makes reflects on gay history, sexuality, and the everyday. He examines capitalism, heteronormative, queer theory and color. Hoseley’s work has been published in Pictorial Physique, VAST Magazine, Tom of Finland Foundation, and was shown in Searchlight Pictures movie Fire Island. He is primarily a painter but also makes drawing, sculptures, bootlegs, and publications.

Patrick Mizumoto is a visual artist living in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Influenced by a life lived by the ocean and his own personal experiences as a half Japanese half Italian queer man. His work predominantly includes male figure paintings, abstraction, and scenes from nature. These emotive figures focus on expressing themes of self-identity and the complex energy surrounding the pursuit of wholeness, both emotionally and physically. He hopes to capture moments of beauty both within our recognizable human experience as well as the indescribable abstract emotions experienced through inner conflict and peace. Patrick studied in a traditional atelier at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art (LAAFA) where he was mentored by artist Sergio Sanchez. He learned to paint and draw from the teachings of the academy as well as from years of self-studying the old masters and contemporary artists alike. His work has been exhibited across the U.S.A., notably in Hawai’i at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art School, and the Hawai’i State Art Museum.

Award-winning artist Ward Lamb has been painting for forty years and has exhibited widely through his career. Born in Syracuse, New York in 1953, Ward began his education post high school at the Maine College of Art (MECA) and went on to receive his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1976 from The State University of New York at Stony Brook. He studied with Robert White, Mel Pekarsky, Mavis Pusey, Lawrence Alloway and Malcolm Morley. Ward has exhibited widely through the United States and Europe. His work on the male figure has been highlighted in several exhibits, including one solo exhibit at the Soho Project Space in New York City. Ward is available for commissions and portrait work.

“I’m still here...I’ve stood on breadlines with the best…” My art offers a peaceful and thoughtful look at my life, living it as a gay man who has seen much. I believe it reflects an educated and experienced vision of beauty in the male figure, still life, and landscape. When I grew up in South Philadelphia, I was more interested in art and cooking pasta dishes and pastries with my mother than playing sports. I went to Catholic schools, and then to the University of the Arts. I made a living as a chef in Philadelphia, Key West, and my own restaurant in Cape May, NJ. I now devote myself to painting. A nature lover and bird watcher, I travel with my husband to places of natural beauty, recording images to chronicle life today.

Jeffrey Heiman is primarily a painter who was raised on a small farm in Western New York and in the suburbs of Virginia Beach but now spends his time between Seattle, New York, and elsewhere. His artistic journey began in high school upon attending Governor's School for the Arts in Norfolk, Virginia but was inspired by the artists in his life, such as his paternal grandfather, who was a self-taught woodcarver, and his mother's ballerina best friend. He is interested in creating depictions of queer scenes of domesticity and desire, exploring intimacy through a veil of romanticism and vulnerability that portrays his personal relationships. He has been a Teaching Artist at Penland School of Craft, an Artist in Residence at the Vermont Studio Center, a Neddy Award Finalist in 2022, he received his BFA from SUNY Purchase and is currently an MFA student at Bard College.

Andrew Freshour is an artist drawn to whimsy, laced with homoeroticism and Anglo-Catholic undertones. His male figures, though scantily clad, are often wearing a cross. His languorous saints know you're looking with unchaste eyes (and like it). Even Andrew's secular figures elect not to hide their "light" under a bushel basket. All of this he achieves through his detailed line work and bright, sweeping watercolors.

Co's work is the product of a love affair with vintage physique photography, gay pornography made before the 1990s, and rural living. If a season is an influence, Co’s is Summer. He takes his audience on a road trip down those dusty roads, camping in the woods, paddling down a river, and grabbing a cold one from the Coleman. Classic beefcake redefined.

Ian Stearns is an art photographer in Brooklyn, New York. All works are shot exclusively on film and are primarily meditations on queer lives, ephemera, and broken-hearted Americana. He was recently named curator of The Gallery at C'mon Everybody.

Joseph Sulsenti is a versatile artist in the animation industry, excelling as both a character animator and storyboard artist. His personal work is characterized by dynamic figure drawings, fueled by his animation background. He organizes a popular drink and draw event in West Hollywood, providing a space for queer artists to connect and create. Joseph's drawings, all done live, capture the essence of the moment with vibrant energy.

Paul Binnie (b. 1967) is a Scottish-born painter and printmaker now living in San Diego, California. He completed his Masters in Fine Art (hons) at the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art in 1990, afterwards living in Paris, New York, Tokyo and London. His early success was in woodblock print, which he studied in Japan for almost six years, and he is now also known as a painter especially for representational male nude oils and drawings. Binnie’s academic training and his interest in the history of art bring layers of meaning unusual in contemporary artists of the male figure.

Alex Wings-Davydov is a European artist and graphic artist currently residing in New York City. He graduated from the School of Art and Design in 2005 with a BFA. Alex has exhibited his work widely throughout the United States, including South Florida, California, and the East Coast. He showed his work at several European exhibitions. His works are in numerous private collections in the USA, Europe and Australia.

I was born in Brooklyn February of 1965. During much of my childhood I lived in Brooklyn, the Bronx, upstate NY, Sarasota, Florida, and Manhattan. (Both my mother and father divorced and remarried.) The real hero of my childhood is my older brother Marc who literally changed my diapers, acted as my protector and as my role model. I started to learn to paint and draw when I was six or seven years old and was convinced that I would be an artist from that age on. As a teen at the High School of Art and Design I got my best training in Irwin Greenberg’s class where he taught me how to draw, oil paint and watercolor. I also attended classes at the Cooper Union and Art Students League. My parents threw me out in my senior year of high school, so I earned my GED and worked construction on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It was a rough time but my older brother and his partner Kirk rescued me by inviting me to move with them to Cincinnati, Ohio to live and study. While a college student, I worked in restaurants and painted as much as I could. After a year at the University of Cincinnati, I went back to the Bronx where I finished college at CUNY Lehman. Lehman is a fantastic college. After completing my undergraduate studies, I lived in California and then Ohio completing my two masters’ degrees in Art History and Studio Art. After school I was lucky enough to have dual careers as an exhibiting artist and tenured professor. In 2014 I began to work on paintings with a strong homoerotic content. Despite excellent sales and well received shows, the galleries I worked with wouldn’t show my new queer work, so I’ve been successfully working mainly directly with my collectors. This change has freed me and allowed me to focus on themes and subjects that, in the past, were rejected or resulted in censorship. Things are going great! In 2016, after eighteen years of teaching art history and studio courses, I resigned a tenured professorship to pursue painting full time.

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.

Steven was born in, and adopted from, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by two loving mothers. He grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he is still living with his partner of 11 years. He studied at the University of Utah, receiving a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Drawing with a minor in Modern Dance in 2015. Throughout his studies, Steven participated in classes that lead him to discover his unique artistic style. His work has been displayed at shows like the BFA/ALT Gallery through the University of Utah’s Fine Arts Department, the Urban Arts Gallery at the Gateway in Salt Lake City, and the annual art show put on the by the Queer Art Spectra. He recently graduated from Davis Technical College in web and graphic design, as he has wanted to broaden his artistic skills.

ADAMCHUCK (he/him) is a queer artist working primarily in oil paint on mylar. His works are figurative and abstract, taking found photos, curated by amateur photographers and bloggers for the internet and re-presents the imagery to a more formal audience. By rendering them in paint at an intimate scale, Adam takes these sometimes explicit or intimate moments and presents them like specimens or a small photo like a Polaroid, examining the way many humans present themselves on the internet. The final product is an intimate twist of classic expressionism and contemporary self portraiture. The source images have already been well curated for the internet or perhaps lovers, but have all made it to the public realm of the world wide web. The works function together similar to a newsfeed on a social media site, and on their own are vignettes of different human experiences and stories woven together. Adam graduated from The Cleveland Institute of Art in spring of 2012 with a BFA in drawing and now lives and works in Brooklyn with his roommates and dog, Ellie. He has since exhibited work solo and in several group shows around the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe. His work has been seen in Paris represented by Less is More Projects, Maria Neil Art Project in Cleveland, Atlantic Gallery in New York City, Art Gaysel in junction with Art Basel Miami, Pequeños Bribones in Mexico City, The Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles, and more. His work is in private collections around the world from his native Cleveland to Paris, London, Berlin, South Africa, and Malta.

Working in watercolor and ink, Colton's paintings are inspired by illustrators of the past, featuring curvaceous line, vivid color, and bold patterns. The whimsical, soft touches balance out the often harder, erotic subject matter, infusing the work with a silly sensuality that perfectly encapsulates the love for his ever-growing queer family. You can find more work via @coltonackerman on IG.

Jeff Lee’s portrait and figurative work moves beyond classic form using non-traditional color and lines while often blurring his subject’s gender, race, age and emotional expression. His recent work involves an elaborated process of applying and removing layers of mixed media resulting in unique depth and texture. Jeff divides his time between New York City and the North Fork of Long Island.

Max Chen, a Brooklyn-based ceramic artist, intricately weaves narratives that mirror his experience as a queer, first-generation Asian American. Born in Ohio, raised in New Jersey, and having lived in China as an American, Chen's artistic journey is deeply intertwined with his exploration of identity and belonging. Embracing his status as an outsider, Chen reimagines traditional ceramic forms with subtle yet profound subversive elements drawn from ancient mythology, architectural motifs, and the vast expanse of internet culture. Through ceramics, a medium rich with variables and unexpected outcomes, he finds a canvas for expressing the allure of imperfection. With each creation, Chen strikes a delicate balance between precision and rawness, transforming clay into a medium for exploring the complexities of gender and sexuality. Like clay, these aspects of identity are malleable, capable of being shaped and reshaped until finding resonance with one's true self.