John Waiblinger

These images are reflective of my growing body of work around a theme I’ve been exploring for some time now ... my own relationship with male beauty, eroticism and romanticizing a Queer sensibility. I’ve been re-visioning some of the images I’ve collected over the years, establishing them in a new context, from a different perspective. Many of the men in these images have been collected from ‘hard porn’ sites and I’ve re-positioned them, re-imagined them in a different context, merging them with my own photographs as the basis for this re-visioning. So each work is a layering and recombination of two very different images.

The work is rather emotionally driven. Each of these men or couples has touched me on both an emotional and aesthetic level – caught my eye (and my “heart” so to speak) from a perspective other than raw sexuality, and I strive to communicate that vision in each piece. My thought is to perhaps humanize, respect and admire them from another angle than the context in which they were originally captured. Each of these men exists, after all, outside of the context of pornographic performance. My engagement with these images encompasses many hours of re-thinking and re-imagining who these men might be and my own sense of relationship with them.

Ultimately, I consider it an act of romance --

John Waiblinger:

waibling@yahoo.com

johnwaiblinger.see.me

John began his artistic endeavors towards the end of his 5th decade after excitedly discovering that digital tools finally provided him the means to translate the visions populating his imagination into physical form. Possibly he is an accidental artist, but now that he has found his medium, he continues to explore how to best represent and share his inner vision.

As a self identified 'Queer Artist' his work is primarily focused on his own relationship with male beauty, and romanticizing a Queer sensibility.

In 2014:

May 2014, Featured Artist, Sachet Mixte Arts Journal Fifth Edition (http://www.amazon.com/Sachet-Mixte-Edition-Five-Volume/dp/1499533373)

June 2014, Group Exhibition at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

July 2014, Featured Artist, Noisy Rain Gay Art Magazine (http://www.noisyrain.com)

November 2014, Group Exhibition at CMI Gallery, Anaheim, CA

December 2014, Group Exhibition at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

December 2014, No Going Back Group Show, White Cloth Gallery, Leeds, UK

December 2014, Featured Artist in 1 Model, 100 Artists

In 2015:

January 2015, 215 Movement - Art Takes the Stage, Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA

February 2015, Dirty Show 16, International Erotic Art Exhibition, Detroit, MI

March 2015, Electron Salon, Group Show at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

April 2015, LACDA 11th Anniversary Represented Artist Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA

May 2015, publication of the book HomoEros, Meditations on Gay Love & Learning (art book

featuring 71 images with text)

(http://www.amazon.com/HomoEros-Meditations-Longing-Sachet-Mixte/dp/1511812087)

May 2015, Exhibited at the Grand Opening, Brad Brafford LGBT Center on 4th, Santa Ana, CA

June 2015, Solar Spectrum, Group Show at M.D. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

July 2015, Featured Artist, We Are Obscurred #1 (http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/956502)

December 2015, Snap to Grid, Group Exhibition at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

December 2015, Featured Artist, Sachet Mixte Themes: Male Nudes (Volume 7)

(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1522898727)

In 2016:

February 2016, Dirty Show 17, International Erotic Art Exhibition, Detroit, MI