Tough Guy
August 13, 2010
Sub Basement Gallery
118 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201
Eli Walker, Curator
Tough Guy combines 21 male, working artists from Baltimore, Chicago, New York and Internationally. An opening reception hosted by Sub Basement Gallery’s owner Jeffrey Kent and curated by Eli Walker.
In an effort to both perpetuate the discussion of gender roles in the arts and to disclose the artist-as-male stereotype, curator Eli Walker was asked to bring together a show that consisted entirely of male artists. Without falling for the hackneyed tropes of ironic, sensitive-male aesthetic nor the passive aggressive, faux-naiveté dude art; the work was chosen from artists’ studios made over the last year as a true representation of their practice. This approach lends itself to investigate what it means to be a male artist today. Are men levied upon their Modernist counterparts after the wake of Post-Modernism? Has the long, evolving Feminist Movement liberated them from patriarchal form like photography did for painting? Is gender as definable as it once was now that we have a progressive understanding of sexual identity and gender association? Tough Guy proposes these questions by exhibiting a cross examination of 21 contemporary male artists and their individual interests.
The Sub Basement Gallery is a for profit exhibition space run by resident artist Jeffrey Kent. Call for appointment at (410) 659-6950 or via email to jeffrey@sbstudios.com. It is located in the sub-basement of the The Atrium condominium building in Market Center, 118 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201.
August 13, 2010
Sub Basement Gallery
118 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201
Eli Walker, Curator
Tough Guy combines 21 male, working artists from Baltimore, Chicago, New York and Internationally. An opening reception hosted by Sub Basement Gallery’s owner Jeffrey Kent and curated by Eli Walker.
In an effort to both perpetuate the discussion of gender roles in the arts and to disclose the artist-as-male stereotype, curator Eli Walker was asked to bring together a show that consisted entirely of male artists. Without falling for the hackneyed tropes of ironic, sensitive-male aesthetic nor the passive aggressive, faux-naiveté dude art; the work was chosen from artists’ studios made over the last year as a true representation of their practice. This approach lends itself to investigate what it means to be a male artist today. Are men levied upon their Modernist counterparts after the wake of Post-Modernism? Has the long, evolving Feminist Movement liberated them from patriarchal form like photography did for painting? Is gender as definable as it once was now that we have a progressive understanding of sexual identity and gender association? Tough Guy proposes these questions by exhibiting a cross examination of 21 contemporary male artists and their individual interests.
The Sub Basement Gallery is a for profit exhibition space run by resident artist Jeffrey Kent. Call for appointment at (410) 659-6950 or via email to jeffrey@sbstudios.com. It is located in the sub-basement of the The Atrium condominium building in Market Center, 118 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201.
