Mecos, las Peliculas del Diablo

One of the young men pictured above is responsible for the company in Mexico City that produced these photographs. That he works both behind and in front of the camera is information I only recently gathered from a neighbor and friend of his, whom I met in Los Angeles last month as our tables adjoined at the LA Art Book Fair at MOCA. I have been following the blog this fellow maintains on Tumblr and his old blog on Blogger pretty much since their inception a few years ago. Though I don't always appreciate the tastes in sexual play his posts reflect, I enjoy the general hedonistic tone with which he expresses his desires. I also happen to like the films he produces and the models he works with, especially the following two, who go by the names of El Puma and Tomas when they appear before his cameras.  Finally, I feel I should acknowledge the degree of commitment this film maker shows by his willingness to be pissed on for his art.

 

Various Spills memorialized as Playing Card Paintings

I've been doing a lot of painting lately, getting ready for an upcoming show at Max Fish. My friend, Max Schumann, with whom I'm collaborating on this endeavor, has decided that he needs more time, so it looks to be pushed back for a month. These are some of the smaller works I've made so far for the show. There are some very large works for the show to complement these. The subject is not a new one for me, but there is a vitality to the painting, despite the grim theme, that pleases me. I hope that it may please anyone who may come across them. The show at Max Fish is now set for April 2013. If you happen to be on the Lower East Side of Manhattan then you may look for it.

Samard Nhum, Recent Finds

It was my coming upon the first picture above (on a site where I frequently visit and leave comments) that prompted my recently renewed interest in this model, as the image came from a set of photographs with which I was hitherto unfamiliar. It turned out to be a very large group of pictures. They are meant to represent the work of a photographer with whom Sam proceeds to couple:

Of the remainder of this vast series of images, perhaps more anon. (I'm not sure that I want to show them as whoever was responsible for this group of porn pics slathered the pancake make-up pretty heavily on Samard's handsome face. Maybe he had a few zits on that unfortunate day, but I would have prefered his visage less artificially and crudely made up.) For now I would like to present the fruits of my quest, crisper copies of those initial photos which fixed this guy so firmly in my imagination.