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Luis De La Cruz (USA / Mexico)
Director and Chief Curator for the XART Foundation
Luis De La Cruz has been an arts administrator and new media curator, developing, directing and producing multi-media art exhibitions and projects with private and non-profit institutions. He has over thirty years of professional experience in the art world as an administrator and has provided curatorial services in over sixty exhibitions. His professional work experience also includes serving as Technical Director and providing curatorial services for the Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA (now named the Orange County Art Museum.) He also served as guest curator for numerous art institutes such as, The Los Angeles Art Association and The Bilingual Foundation for the Arts. He recently completed his role as the Project Director for the Walt Disney Concert Hall and curator of the art program for collections and exhibitions for The Music Center of Los Angeles County.
Mr. De La Cruz is a founder and director of The Annual Sensual & Erotic Art Exhibition and has developed a theme that presents a unique American perspective on the subject matter of censorship and contemporary art. The idea for this exhibition emerged out of the need to provide a free forum for artists and to expand the general public’s opportunity to view erotic art in its many forms. His intention in assembling these works is to make more widely known the achievements of contemporary artists, whose neglect can in part be attributed to their gender, culture or medium and to educate those attending the exhibition as to why and how erotic artists have been marginalized in the twentieth century. He opened The XART Gallery in September of 2002.
www.xartgallery.com
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Steve Diet Goedde(USA)
Photographer
www.stevedietgoedde.com
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Bettina Weiner (Germany)
Curator for Inasaja – Galeria Ars Erotica
Several years ago, she came in contact with contemporary erotic art. As marketing consultant she worked with a small gallery in Dresden/ Germany. This bizarre cellar-gallery specialized in erotic art giving artists a rare opportunity to exhibit erotic artworks – uncensored. She buried herself in the concept and it continues to captivate her, a feeling she hopes that will last for a long time. Because of the obviously successful worldwide trade in historic erotic artworks, “I wondered why are people so quick to associate the contemporary erotic art with pornography and discriminate against the artists so often” says Bettina. “In contrast to the deceased artists this strikes at the creative centre of the living artists and it hurts” she continues. Bettina believes that many fascinating artworks from today’s contemporary erotic artists are really crying out to come into the public arena and to show that the theme of eroticism and sexuality in art is as just as valid today as it has been for the past thousands of years; a realization she hopes to witness sooner than later.
Together with her sister she founded INASAJA® Gallery for erotic art. For nearly 3 years they have been searching contemporary erotic artworks of different genres to present on their internet-gallery for viewing and purchase. They consider their venture as a basis to present this art genre to interested people worldwide, to find supporters, and to create a platform where their artistic erotic spirit of the age will be at home. At the same time, the two sisters are working with partners to build an international exhibition-program with the goal of developing the direct connection to be existent between the erotic art enthusiasts, the artworks and their artists.
www.inasaja.com
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Damien B. (USA / France)
Art Gallery Director
Damien has been predisposed to a symbiosis of two opposite worlds: Science and Art, a gratitude owed to an UNESCO artist father and an engineer mother. This combination drove him to acquire a strong background in science graduating in Geology, Biology and Mathematics, as well as in the Art field studying Art history in Nice (France).
From an early age, he emerged in the art world with artists, intellectuals and poets surrounding him and his family. He found in Miami a very exciting opportunity to bring in this blooming city all his passion for the Arts and the artists. He founded a non-for profit organization for the promotion of young talented emerging artists and bring in Miami establishes European and American talents. He also promotes them all nationally by participating in Art Fairs. He has earned his mark amongst the most important figures in the Miami art scene as a prominent gallery owner and a curator attributed to numerous audacious, challenging and avant-garde exhibitions.
www.damienb.com
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Timothy Dolph (USA)
Photographer
Tim is a native of New Orleans who has earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He thinks that his acquired artistic sense could be attributed as a direct by-product of his father’s genes. He feels that his talent for photography is simply a natural phenomenon. He assimilates the way physics and art combine to create a great photograph. Tim has always been a fan of the vintage pin-up artists like George Petty and Gil Elvgren. The silly sexy side of his work includes a threesome of sexy pinups cheating at strip poker, an Audrey Hepburn look-a-like model giving an upskirt shot while having breakfast outside of Tiffany & Co., and a trouble maker fetish ballerina in “My Mom Made Me Take This Class.” The softer side of Tim’s photography is a still of a woman quickly adjusting her lingerie in an elevator just before the door opens, a latex clad model in a cat suit stretching out on a chaise lounge, and a sexy long legged model with her thong caught in her stiletto heel. His photographic style uses irony, humor, innocence and seduction. It’s just cool, funny, sexy art.
My motto is quite simple: “I shoot what I love”, expresses Tim Dolph. Whether Fetish, Hotrods, Monsters, and Vintage pin-ups, he shoots the simple, complex and extraordinary out of them all. He sums it up: “I’m one who loves the anticipation and the excitement of the journey rather than just the final outcome. It is not about what my photos show, it’s more about what they suggest; sorta like a really good striptease.”
www.photosbydolph.com
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Leigh Heppell (UK)
Sculptor
The collection includes a small number of "special" sculptures for the more discerning Erotophile, which although sexually explicit in content, are nevertheless still touched with artistic creativity that is the unmistakable trade mark of this incredibly talented artist. Most recently Leigh has perfected a completely new technique, using real material in the casting process, giving the finished sculpture an even greater feeling of authenticity and erotic feeling.
www.exotic.co.uk
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