
Jack & Mack
Photo installation, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California, 2019.
Framed digital C-prints
For my photo series "Jack & Mack," I‘ve photographed two stars of bear porn films. I’ve torqued these images with a different kind of artifice, posing Jack and Mack in gestures borrowed from the Renaissance paintings of Caravaggio and Bellini, bringing together two very different registers of physical expression and blurring the distinction between the sacred and the profane.

Jack & Mack, installation view

Jack & Mack
Installation view
Digital C-prints, 30” x 30” each

Jack & Mack
Jack Radcliffe (After Bellini) #1, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack & Mack
Jack Radcliffe (After Bellini) #2, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack Radcliffe (After Bellini) #3, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack & Mack
Jack Radcliffe (After Bellini) #4, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack & Mack
Jack Radcliffe (After Bellini) #5, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack & Mack
Jack Radcliffe (After Bellini) #6, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack & Mack
Jack Radcliffe (After Bellini) #7, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack & Mack
Jack Radcliffe (After Bellini) #8, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack & Mack, installation view

Jack & Mack
Mack (After Caravaggio) #1, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack & Mack
Mack (After Caravaggio) #2, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack & Mack
Mack (After Caravaggio) #3, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack & Mack
Mack (After Caravaggio) #4, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack & Mack
Mack (After Caravaggio) #5, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack & Mack
Mack (After Caravaggio) #6, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack & Mack
Mack (After Caravaggio) #7, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"

Jack & Mack
Mack (After Caravaggio) #8, 2002
Chromogenic development print, 30" x 30"


















