By Steve Bornfeld / LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Relax, dudes. They don’t mean it that way.
Admittedly, though, an erotic art exhibit titled “12 Inches of Sin” could leave many males in Las Vegas sobbing in the shower, nursing a painful inferiority complex. (Except, perhaps, some overly gifted porn stars.)
However, at Sin City Gallery’s arousing new show, size matters, as in keeping it small. (The artwork, gutterbrain — the artwork!)
“We wanted a really good representation of what artists could do with that constraint,” says gallery artistic director Debbe Sussman about the contest that spawned the display, the artists’ pieces limited to 12 inches in any direction.
“That’s a very small canvas for most artists to work with.”
Translation: It’s not the size of the canvas; it’s the motion of the paintbrush.
While we can’t show you — or even describe — the more explicit entries, the 25-piece feast of sexuality and sensuality is an international celebration of erotica born of a call for submissions by the gallery. Depictions — around 200 of them — arrived from Israel, Poland, Germany, England, Canada, Uruguay and the United States, particularly from Las Vegas and California artists… Read article