Part of a series of erotic sauna drawing I did in the late ’80’s. Probably intended for inclusion in “Secret Love”.
Painted in gouache on re-used junk mail.
I call this drawing “Taste Test”. It is another sketch from the archive, possibly meant for inclusion in the “Recycled Erotica” exhibition at the ONE WAY, in the summer of ’89, though the date suggests it was meant for submission to “Secret Love” volume 2, number 4, but then cropped from 8.5″ x 11″ for inclusion in the ONE WAY exhibit.
I’d guess this drawing was done to be included in “Secret Love” 4. Since it survives at 8.5″ x 11″ I assume it didn’t get into the Recycled Erotica exhibition. It’s done on the back of a WAND/LA (Women’s Action For Nuclear Disarmament) flyer.
This drawing may have been intending for my one man exhibition at the ONE WAY, a leather bar I used to frequent in Silverlake back in the late 80’s. I wasn’t into leather per se, but I found some of the guys hot. But my show didn’t go up until summer 1989 and many of these drawings I’ll be posting over the next few days are dated 1988, so I’m guessing I did them for inclusion in “Secret Love” #4.
I purchased “Secret Love” #2 at A Different Light Bookstore (a LGBT specialty bookstore) in Silverlake, California. “Secret Love” was a limited (very limited) edition art folio where one could send in 100 copies of anything one wanted, along with 10 dollars, and be included in the next issue. So I sent 100 front and back xeroxes of 2 of my homoerotic drawings for issue #3 and was jazzed when I received my contributor’s copy. With issue #4, I got ambitious, as I recall. I figured, why not send in 100 original drawings, all done on the back (or front) of whatever pieces of throw-away paper I had lying around. All the drawings would be done super fast (I set my timer for 5 minutes). I don’t know why I still have these drawings. I do know I don’t have a copy of “Secret Love” #4, so either it never happened or I ran out of gas. I don’t think the latter is the case since I re-purposed many of those drawings for my one man exhibition at the ONE WAY, entitled “Recycled Erotica”, as all the art was executed on Trash Paper.