Juxtapoz Magazine – Steve Seeley’s “The Voyeurs” @ All Star Press, Chicago

All Star Push in Chicago presents Steve Seeley’s The Voyeurs, a demonstrate that is made up of additional than 50 new paintings on paper, with 28 of the will work are acrylic on classic nude art magazine web pages. Each individual piece incorporates Steve’s legendary imagery like appropriated romance comics and nostalgic cartoon characters. There are 6 collaborative is effective exactly where artists were prompted by the matter: ‘what is being “voyeured” or spied upon’. Seeley labored with six of his most loved community feminine and/or LGBQT artists to open new interpretations exterior of his applied written content of the male gaze. These is effective include: Totes Ferosh, Liz Flores, Paola Seeley, Vivian Le, Isamar Medina and Kate Lynn Lewis.

“The Voyeurs is naturally about voyeurism. Type of.
I indicate, I guess it’s also about the decline of innocence.
Let’s not fail to remember that it’s also about net memes and the siren track of social media. And it’s about my friends too… and neighbors (and maybe a couple of strangers).
Oh and it’s also about puns, innuendos and term engage in.
But for guaranteed, like all my do the job, it is really about absurdity.

It is about discovering consolation in nostalgia but also puzzling that nostalgia with the tongue-in-cheek. It’s about expending the very last two furthermore several years seeking to come across normality. Watching the neighboring earth all around you shut down and then slowly observing it start off to indulge in being found again. A temporary glance of one thing… hell, nearly anything… and then seeing the blinds swiftly near and the lights becoming shut off. It is flirting with the notion of flirting a person awkward wink at a time.

Best guess? The Voyeurs is about observing. It is about watching. And it’s about staying found. (Binoculars not provided.)”

—Steve Seeley