Red titled works will be at Boston show

I have had numerous group and solo exhibitions of my paintings, drawings, sculptures, and art-constructions nationwide in leading and cutting-edge galleries, as well as several select museums. I strive to provoke and provide opportunities to see society anew by challenging entrenched social mores. Most recently, I have created work that is even more controversial, because I’m tackling the confines and atrocities of organized religion. I have used various other body fluids in my work before, so the inclusion of menstrual blood in my art is a natural progression. As a man who can’t possibly know the experience of menstruation and as an artist working to reveal the damage done by religion, I need only point to the Book of Leviticus, which is the Old Testament’s “rule book,” filled with many references to menstruating women as unclean and saying that any man who touches them or even sits where they’ve sat becomes unclean. There has also been extensive theological discussion about the Virgin Mary, concluding she never menstruated prior to birthing Jesus – without a trace of blood or afterbirth, because both would have tainted her and Him with unholy uncleanliness and sin! If “menstrual art” can help heal the personal shame and confusion women feel about their bodies, I am honored to be part of this exhibit.

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