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Rick SindtI Might Grow to Be Kinder - Intimate Portrayal of a Couple Embracing2022
2022
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About the Item
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographic stills, repurposing them into images of intimacy.
Rick Sindt
I Might Grow To Be Kinder
oil on panel
18h x 18w x 1.50d in
45.72h x 45.72w x 3.81d cm
RIS041
“This body of work has been crystalizing in my mind for about five years,” says Sindt, “It is the product of reflecting on how the places I learned the most about myself, and my desires, are considered something that sullies a person, something taboo.”
Focused on the experiences of gay men, this body of oil paintings depicts moments that range from tender touches to more sexually explicit acts.
“It was important to me that I only represent what I know,” explains Sindt, “I identify as a man, and I am attracted to others who identify as men. I don’t believe it is my place to speak on behalf of other members of the queer community whose experiences I am unfamiliar with.”
“In creating this work, I spoke with men who told me about how they hid magazines when they were a kid, took out P.O. Boxes in their small hometowns to protect their privacy, and learned how to cover their tracks on the internet. These secretive acts become necessary when the need to understand yourself is great, but your world is bereft of representation."
Rick Sindt
b. 1990, Hastings, MN,
EDUCATION
2013 North Park University, Chicago, IL - BFA
Magna Cum Laude
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Two Countries, Rogue Philanthropy, Chicago, IL
2013 Tides, Erosion or Catch, Pull, Recover; The-One-Right-Now, North Park University;
Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Are We Not of Interest to Each Other, Uptown Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Reinventing Ourselves From Another Point-of-View, Contemporary Gallery at Zhou B.
Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Collective: Process, Beans and Bagels, Chicago, IL
2015 Collective: for(a)ging, Hammond Art Center; Hammond, IN
How We Make It, The Arts of Life, Chicago, IL
Collective: One, Albany Park, Chicago, IL
2014 ArtPrize, Bridgewater Place, Grand Rapids, MI
It’s About Time, Oak Park Art League; Oak Park, IL
All About Color, Juried Group Exhibition, Arterie Fine Arts, Naperville, IL
2013 Elevation: R.A.W. Natural Born Artists, Double Door; Chicago, IL
2012 Ensemble: R.A.W. Natural Born Artists, Double Door; Chicago, IL
I Made This This Summer I Made, North Park University; Chicago, IL
2011 Junior Exhibition, North Park University; Chicago, IL
A Testimony to Being, Swedish Covenant Hospital; Chicago, IL
- Creator:Rick Sindt (1990)
- Creation Year:2022
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 14 in (35.56 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Chicago, IL
- Reference Number:Seller: RIS0411stDibs: LU554310357322
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