{"id":7954,"date":"2017-11-18T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T08:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/?p=7954"},"modified":"2017-11-18T08:36:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T08:36:55","slug":"buttnekkid-bares-it-all-at-muzeumm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/buttnekkid-bares-it-all-at-muzeumm\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttnekkid Bares It All at MuzeuMM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7960\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-2-1024x561.jpg\" alt=\"Butt 2\" width=\"648\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-2-1024x561.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-2-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-2-648x355.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-2-350x192.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-2.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Opening tonight at MuzeuMM, <em>Buttnekkid<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>is two artists’ take on nude painting. It is also a phenomenal show, as graceful as it is non-judgmental, lush and visceral.<\/p>\n<p>As the show’s description notes “We are all born naked – and artists either reveal or obfuscate this fact when creating figurative work.” This show is all about the reveal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/butt7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7955\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/butt7.jpg\" alt=\"butt7\" width=\"621\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/butt7.jpg 621w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/butt7-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/butt7-124x192.jpg 124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Above, show curation in progress<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A reveal which oddly enough still makes some people uncomfortable. When Facebook frowns at posting something that even resembles a nipple,\u00a0 it’s only too obvious that the puritanical purveyors of “morality” are still very much with us.<\/p>\n<p>So it is worth noting that as well as being beautiful work, the two solo shows that comprise <em>Buttnekkid, <\/em>curated by Mat Gleason,\u00a0are also making a bold statement as to the beauty of the body and our views toward it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7958\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-4.jpg\" alt=\"Butt 4\" width=\"960\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-4.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-4-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-4-648x549.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-4-226x192.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nLena Moross pairs same-sex couples in intimate yet unsentimental poses, some clothed, some bare. Anna Stump critiques the ways in which our society seems to fear flesh as much as it is obsessed by it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7956\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-6.jpg\" alt=\"Butt 6\" width=\"206\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-6.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-6-180x192.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Both artists have a uniquely lovely way of expressing intimacy,\u00a0 of revealing the body even as they portray this form as exactly what it is – completely natural.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7957\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-5.jpg\" alt=\"Butt 5\" width=\"675\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-5.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-5-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-5-648x922.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-5-135x192.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><em>Stump, left; Moross, right<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Moross says “I was working on my new series on figures and Anna saw it. She said she had figure paintings too, and proposed we do a double show at MuzeuMM.”<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Because the two artists create entirely different works, they knew that their figure paintings would not mesh, and should stand as two separate, thematically twinned exhibitions at the gallery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7959\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-3.jpg\" alt=\"Butt 3\" width=\"795\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-3.jpg 795w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-3-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-3-648x782.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-3-159x192.jpg 159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>“I worked my usual way: staging and taking photos from real people and then painting from them. Anna did her take on the 1970s era pornography industry.\u00a0\u00a0Basically we did our own thing in our studios,” Moross explains.<\/p>\n<p>Stump reveals “About a year ago, Lena saw an older figurative painting I\u2019d done with a heavy grid structure of drips. She really liked it and asked if I\u2019d do an exhibition with her of nudes. I said, of course!”<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7961\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-1.jpg\" alt=\"Butt 1\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-1-648x864.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-1-144x192.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Stump, “Lena and I are similar in the way we approach art making. We are both extremely confident with our technical skills and understanding of the body represented in 2D, which frees us to make work that is actually less concerned about beauty and more about monstrousness.”<\/p>\n<p>For Stump, the inspiration for her subject matter came from a stack of <em>Playboy<\/em> magazines she borrowed from her studio mate. “I grew up in the 1970s, exposed to nudes from <em>Playboy<\/em>, courtesy of an uncle. I\u2019m charmed by the awkward, pre-Photoshop poses, the tans, the naivet\u00e9, the non-surgically enhanced bodies. The porn is almost wholesome. The male sketches\u2014earnest, goofy\u2014are also referenced from the magazine ads and editorials,” she relates.<\/p>\n<p>Gleason notes that the show is about the “female gaze and agency…of disrobing.” He says that nudity in art received a bad reputation when the models were all women and the painters men. But with two women creating this work, the tables have turned.<\/p>\n<p>“<a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lena.moross?fref=mentions\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=100000048342853&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">Lena Moross<\/a>\u00a0uses nudity as a sem<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">iotic device within a psychological drama while\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/amstump?fref=mentions\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=1014706053&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">Anna Stump<\/a>\u00a0pushes the boundaries and politics of professional eroticism…curating them has been a dream.”<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7962\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-10.jpg\" alt=\"Butt 10\" width=\"960\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-10.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-10-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-10-648x585.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Butt-10-213x192.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">Experience that dream for yourself Saturday, 8-11 p.m. at MuzeuMM, 4817 W. Adams in mid-city. The show runs through<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">– Genie Davis; photos provided by artists and curator<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening tonight at MuzeuMM, Buttnekkid\u00a0is two artists’ take on nude painting. It is also a phenomenal show, as graceful as it is non-judgmental, lush and visceral. 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