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Mixed media installation, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, 1997.
Gelatin silver prints, sounds of breathing and crickets, lamp with hand cut shade, fake fur, found furniture
The bear movement is composed of men who share and exalt in the physical characteristics of bears: lots of body hair, facial fur, and big bellies. Departing from a long established ideal, the movement eroticizes a body type that has, until recently, been given little erotic visibility in the gay community. Night of the Hunter, translates my obsession with hairy men into an environment the viewer can enter. My passion for the hirsute is rendered as a quest for beauty and as a place to live: I the artist/hunter, and the hairy bear my subject/trophy.
Night of the Hunter
Southwest view of installation
Mixed media, sound
Night of the Hunter
Ursas Major and Minor, 1997.
Found lamp parts, hand-cut paper, fiberglass, motor
Night of the Hunter
Ursas Major and Minor (detail), 1997.
Found lamp parts, hand-cut paper, fiberglass, motor
Night of the Hunter
Big Dipper Chest of Drawers, 1997.
Chest of drawers, holes, fake fur, sounds of bees buzzing and men breathing
Big Dipper Chest of Drawers (detail), 1997.
Chest of drawers, holes, fake fur, sounds of bees buzzing and men breathing
Night of the Hunter
Untitled (Bear Rug), 1997.
Fake fur, silk fringe
Night of the Hunter
Untitled (Karl, Plum Blossoms), 1997.
Framed gelatin silver prints, 15" x 15" each
Night of the Hunter
Night of the Hunter (detail), 1997.
Southeast view of installation
Night of the Hunter
Night of the Hunter (detail), 1997.
Southeast view of installation
Night of the Hunter
Untitled (Jacek as Western Landscape), 1997
Framed gelatin silver prints, 15" x 35"
Night of the Hunter
Untitled (Jacek as Startled Animal), 1997.
Framed gelatin silver print, 16” x 20”, commercial paneling