The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust at HVCCA

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LUST, specifically as it applies to sexual relations, is here portrayed in overt imagery. Artists create paintings, videos and photographs exploring raw eroticism of a heterosexual, cross gender and homosexual model echoing the rawness of the Kama Sutra. Catherine Opie’s ‘Pieta’ borders on religious ecstasy, while Larry Clark’s ‘Tulsa Series’ documents raw sex within a drug ridden culture of lost youth. In staging the exhibition at the HVCCA, works are chosen that present this cross section and that speak to a hard edged artistic approach to lust for ‘lust’s sake’ while powerfully portraying that which motivates us to seek the comfort of another. SHOWN: Larry Clark, Untitled, 1968, black & white photograph, 11 x 14 inches