on its cellphone with a face of dismay, and another is placing its dick inside a hot dog bun in preparation to slather it in yellow mustard. A lonely ghost sits with blue balls — literally painted blue — next to a tombstone that reads,"You ghosted me today," while a skeleton captures the perfect low-angle dick pic."The balance between sex and humor is as natural to me as it is purposeful," Radcliffe says.
Pulling from ideas surrounding social media and dating apps, Radcliffe's cellphone sculptures intend to highlight the origin of his love affairs. With displayed messages like,"You only ever want to see me after midnight," to,"I saw you on the L train this morning," they reflect our over-reliance on technology to"find and form" modern love.
There are many, but right now I'd say Katie Stout. I've loved her work for years, but a mutual friend of ours, Jeremy Kost, recently introduced us over text. We both work figuratively and deal with sex and the body, saturated color, and playfulness and humor, with Katie's work often having a functional component like the work doubling as a lamp or a toilet paper dispenser.
Artists are just people and can fill any role that any person can in any field. Freedom of choice and expression is at the base of being artist, and what role an artist takes is pretty individual. I think, especially in 2020, it can be dangerous to look at artists as moral or ethical pillars who hold up a mirror to society and critique the problems in it. Artists are great visual storytellers, but less great historians.
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