Project One Gallery Presents SEX MONEY POWER | Nick Flatt Solo Exhibition
Project One Gallery presents:
SEX MONEY POWER
Nick Flatt solo exhibition
Opening Reception June 6th 7pm
Exhibition: June 6 – July 7
project one gallery
251 Rhode Island
San Francisco CA 94103
For more information: www.p1sf.com
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Project One Gallery presents Sex Money Power, a solo exhibition of paintings by Nick Flatt, opening on June 6. Nick Flatt, who was born in Dallas, Texas and recently completed a degree at Academy of Art University here in San Francisco, is a realist painter and sculptor notable for his large-format portraits.
Flatt’s monochromatic, hyper-realistic oil paintings on canvases of up to eight feet tall, with provocative titles such as Nip Slip, Blow Me, and Pussy Fingers, both reflect and challenge the commodification of desire. These massive portraits depict women reminiscent of the models commonly used by marketers to trigger and misdirect our appetite for consumption, but with exaggeratedly, aggressively sexual poses, gestures, and facial expressions that push the viewer to the point of discomfort.
In Flatt’s words, “This show is about the things we want, and how the need to obtain these vices influence our everyday lives.” Rather than examining the influences conditioning us to lust after sex, money, and power, this exhibit considers “the carrot,” “the glossy images of desire that makes us feel like we are not quite living up to our potential,” “that make our lives feel mediocre.” These portraits, glossy and glamorized yet also uniquely raw and assertive, force us to confront the cheap objectification and manipulation we encounter from countless sources in our daily lives. Flatt explains, “By addressing the strings that pull us to these empty wants, it makes cutting them that much easier.”