Chad States
Chad States is an artist about whom I know nothing. But I found two especially fascinating projects on his website:
A photo series of apparent cruising spots called “cruising.”
A seemingly autobiographical installation/image series entitled
“painfully obvious.”
Not to mention the naked guys in his “masculinities” series.
2 Comments
Jan 19, 2010 @ 22:38:06
What did you think of the masculinities series specifically? Most of the comments were either cliche, or kinda dumb. The marine who cusses and has tattoos, the guy who works out and he’s a guy, therefore, he’s masculine… I get that he’s portraying a word that has become so many different things to so many different people. I get the redefining gender aspect… I don’t know… Thought it was a bit trite. I liked the cruising pictures, though. The woods were beautiful and it amazes me that people still do that…
Jan 20, 2010 @ 11:07:57
Steve, I enjoyed the comments. I liked that the artist had those people speak for themselves, and in some instances what they had to say was sort of academic and thought out, while in other cases it was blunt and took the idea of masculinity for granted. That’s where I think the cliche aspect came in, just this idea that a man is what he is and to question what it means is kinda…gay.