Benjamin Fredrickson Explores Intimacy and Desire in a PrEP World

Daniel Cooney Fine Art will be presenting Benjamin Fredrickson’s second solo exhibition of photographs.

The exhibition will include small scale black and white and color photographs made with paper negatives and traditional large format analog film. Many of the photographs have been created in Fredrickson’s basement studio with lighting alluding to his artistic ancestors George Platt Lynes, The Athletic Model Guild and Robert Mapplethorpe among others.

In this exhibition Fredrickson continues to walk the line between raunch and exquisite beauty. He expresses desire with finely tuned explicit imagery and he explores vanity, fetish, exhibitionism and photographing as an erotic act. He also implicates himself as a blissful observer and participant of erotic play. 

Fredrickson also pays homage to centuries of traditional art genres with his models unceremoniously submitting to observation by him and the gallery audience. An astute observer will see references to 19^th century photographic portraiture and early European painting. The observer will also be lured to examine seductive bodies contorted and exposed for their consideration.

The opening reception is November 7, 6-8PM.