‘You'll Need A Cold Shower After You See It’: Sensual & Erotic Art Exhibit at Erotica LA
By: Penn N. Sword
06-15-2004

LOS ANGELES - Promising that you'll need a cold shower after you see it, a 3,000 square foot sensual and erotic art exhibition, Inside/Out: Censored and Self-Censored Art, will feature at Erotica Los Angeles June 18-20.

Now it its fourteenth year, the satellite exhibit from the XART Gallery will be arranged without walls and continues to be both provocative and challenging, Erotica L.A. organizers said June 14. In addition to the exhibit, a series of art talks will be led by the exhibition curator on Friday, June 18 and Saturday. June 19, both at 3:00PM.

Organizers say the exhibit presents a perspective of sex by artists that have either experienced censorship or have never exhibited their work to the public. These artists have returned to the earlier ideal principal of sex, as they assume the right to create a mirror of our society, and to make art whose reality would be independent of society’s taboo. Our visual impressions, coming to the end of its own intimate extreme, is that fuller truth about reality which is known to the human mind in favor of the erotic.

“The popular success of The Sensual & Erotic Art Exhibition fits with our goal to provide an inviting place where people can experience these images personally,” says Inside/Out art director Luis De La Cruz. “This wide variety of original contemporary art helps us understand our own sexuality and cultural evolution, as well as the power and passion of erotic art. And if its shocking, it’s because you relate to it.”

“We are proud to hold such a magnificent and respected annual exhibition at the show,” states Erotica L.A. vice president of marketing and operations Chad Beecher. “This gallery showcased at Erotica L.A. allows more consumers to experience the impact and beauty of sensual and erotic art – and also gives them an opportunity to purchase these original and stunning pieces.”

The exhibition's sponsor is the Lifestyles Organization, which believes firmly that artistic expression in all forms is protected by the Bill of Rights and must not be subject to government control, restriction, or censorship in any manner. Inside/Out: Censored and Self-Censored Art, Lifestyles believes, validates the personal art that is being made.

The exhibit will focus on new art forms including Conceptual, Performance, Digital, Video, Photography and New Media. The fifty artists represented will include Tom Asad, Peter Bodnar, Djuna Blackmon, David Bloksberg, Sandra Chang, Photos by Corwin, Donna Ferrato, Marc Greenblum, Frank G. Hoffman, R.C. Horsch, Justice Howard, Lord Tim Hudson, Nick Karras, Willi Kissmer, Olivia, Tom O’Hara, Moline O’Tucson, Ken Marcus, MeloD, Lea Morales, Geoffrey Nelson, Joe Paradice, Martin Perea, Michael Robles, Alex Sargeant, Woody Smith, Brain Soucy, Karin Swildens, Martin Tellez, Lee Thomas, Tiffany Trenda, Frank Venadas, Robert Watson Jr. and Tony Yazzolino.

And, more than 150 new digital images by Pornotopia.com, plus the world premier of an animated film by Sagemonn & Karyann, will be screened in the gallery. Samples of some of the art works at XARTgallery.com. And, the exhibit will also feature a book signing by Donna Ferrato, author of Love & Lust, published by the Aperture Foundation.

"This exhibition of the most significant developments in Erotic art in America reigns as the longest running continuous survey in America," Erotica L.A. organizers say. "The Annual was recorded historically in the battle against censorship when in 1997, with the assistance of the California ACLU, it was granted a restraining order by a Federal Judge who condemned the censorship action of the California Alcohol Beverage Control Board.

"On March 6, 2000, it was further decided by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of LSO vs. STROH to reverse the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the Officials on the grounds of qualified immunity," the organizers continue. "The importance of this decision is the announcement of the continuing vitality of the First Amendment and the rejection of the State’s attempt to weaken personal freedoms through the use of regulations. Additionally, this decision provides a “road map” for future challengers of thinly veiled legislation that is primarily intended to abridge the First Amendment."

In its eighth consecutive year, with over two hundred exhibitors, live stage shows, seminars, 3,000 square foot each art gallery and erotic museum, and ladies' night, Erotica L.A. introduces new products and concepts in erotic entertainment and strive to bring the best entertainment and shopping value to consumers.

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The artists of the occupying nation play at creating "new art forms"... including so-called conceptual, performance, digital, video, and new media... all focusing in this instance on sex. The sensual & erotic art exhibition wants to lull you to sleep, where you can have happy porno dreams uninterrupted by reality. Yes, the wonderful artists at Pornotopia want you to fixate on what every American is fixated on.

.... meanwhile, in the colonies.

The artists of suffering Iraq live in utter despair and fear. They are not playing at conceptual or performance art, they are trying to stay alive. They don't dream happy porno dreams and their wretched lives are punctuated by the reality of car bombs, assassinations, hospitals without medicines, and occupying troops who will shoot to kill in the blink of an eye.

.... meanwhile, in the colonies.

"Shock and Awe." You'll need a cold shower after you experience it... a shower to wash away all of the blood and gore you are soaked in. A sensual delight of dismembered bodies. Eyes torn out by bomb splinters. Twitching limbs. The intimate extreme of entrails wrapped around your neck... the impact and beauty of rocket shells blasting through bone and tissue.

.... meanwhile, in the colonies.

Pornotopia... Depleted Uranium... Love & Lust in Abu Ghraib... "and if it's shocking, it's because you relate to it." Bloody stumps and weapons of mass decadence create a mirror of our society.

(Photo: A sculpture by Iraqi artist, Abdel-Karim Khalil, depicts a hooded detainee at Abu Ghraib).

oh goody, more blame-America-first liberal crocodile tears for the poor, suffering artists of Iraq.

yet not a one weeps for the horrible living conditions in Syria, Iran, Libya and North Korea.


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Randy Constan wrote: "oh goody, more blame-America-first liberal crocodile tears for the poor, suffering artists of Iraq. yet not a one weeps for the horrible living conditions in Syria, Iran, Libya and North Korea. "

Wrong... no liberal crocodile tears here, just a statement of fact. The so-called coalition "authority" just conducted a poll of the Iraqi people and found that more than 80% wanted the US to leave immediately... BEFORE any "election". The poll showed that Iraqis had no confidence in the US or its hand picked Iraqi puppets. So... shall we now call the coalition authority a bunch of "blame-America-first liberals"?

America OCCUPIES Iraq... not Syria, Iran, Libya and North Korea. That however may change if you get your way. Then the unfortunate people of those miserable countries will also be "liberated" by the soldiers of Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald. So relax and don't try to think... I know it hurts. Just go to the "Erotic Art Exhibit" and enjoy some war time porn... that's what all good patriotic Americans are doing.

It would be nice to have never invaded and left the serfs with another 100 years of Saddam-like rule. But the world is too small to let tyrants mouth off. With 9-11, the Middle East has sent a last, desperate messsage: "Notice us or destroy us, we have no civilization." We obliged.

America OCCUPIES Iraq...

We OCCUPIED Japan and Germany too. The losers get occupied. Instead of building death camps we're "wasting" our money rebuilding a country THEY didn't know how to run.


So relax and don't try to think... I know it hurts.

Condescending liberal prick. The joke's on YOU, every day. People LOVE capitalism and sure as the camel spits, it will "corrupt" the Middle East. While you march around unwashed with a cardboard sign, Iraqis will soon delight to a far higher standard of living than under Saddam.

Just go to the "Erotic Art Exhibit" and enjoy some war time porn... that's what all good patriotic Americans are doing.

You'd be better off there. It takes real talent for a homeless bum to glue a dick to a mannequin. You should pay the $12 to go see it. Be sure to take a big ole SUV to the gayseum, by yourself.


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Randy Cuntstain:"Condescending liberal prick."

....ooooh, sounds like somebody hit a nerve?

...having trouble thinking clearly, huh?

The Middle East needed to be shaken up, these people have been stuck in the Middle Ages, we have to drag them into the 21C.

You can see the big picture, unlike these dickweeds.

That's a laugh.

Read the linked article. We bombed them back into the middle ages. Physically and culturally.

Ultra fascist Arab hater and defender of imperialism, Randy Constan... runs an interesting little website:

http://pixyland.org/peterpan/

Before agreeing or disagreeing with Randy, one should check out his website to see just what kind of RAVING LUNATIC he really is. I don't know if the neo-cons who post on this website defending Randy's politics would be comfortable in siding with a fellow who actually thinks he's Peter Pan (see photo of Randy taken from his website).

Yes... Randy Constan... champion of the rightwing... lives in "Never Never Land".

THAT was the FUNNIEST FUCKIN' SHIT I have seen in a LONG TIME!!!!

...whadda fuckin' nut!

I've known Randy for 11 years. These are not his words but those of a hateful person.

Pixyland has nothing to do with politics.

we need level headed people like this