Work In Progress

Alex & Matt, 2010

2011-08-17T06:32:00.003+02:00

Alex & Matt, 2010

Joshua, 2011

2011-08-17T06:29:00.002+02:00

Joshua, 2011

Meeting... Ultis

2011-08-10T19:17:00.004+02:00

Meeting... Uldis, 2011

Meeting... Ultis, 2011 (Detail)

Marc, 2011

2011-08-10T19:14:00.002+02:00

Peter, 2011

2011-07-29T23:49:00.002+02:00

The newest soap picture, made just yesterday.

Meeting Uldis.... In Progress, 2011

2011-07-28T20:05:00.005+02:00

Blue Splash

2011-06-26T17:34:00.002+02:00

FOLGENDES: Pascal Richter

2011-06-20T20:58:00.003+02:00

For those of you in Germany check out the launch of Folgendes: Pascal Richter--My series Boy's Showing Off is being featured in the publication!

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/event.php?eid=118472941574026

Sleeping Beauty (for Stuart), 2010

2011-06-20T06:18:00.003+02:00

Sleeping Beauty (for Stuart), 2010

Searching the archive... 1998

2011-06-20T05:44:00.003+02:00

GWM, 1998

silkscreen and spray paint on synthetic canvas

This was in an edition of 50, and I still have a few left...

The Age, 2011

2011-06-19T23:10:00.002+02:00

Nick Burd's "If You're Lonely"

2011-06-10T20:03:00.004+02:00

My friend Nick wrote this lovely response to my series If You're Lonely.

I adore it, and hope to include it in a publication of this work someday.

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If You're Lonely

By Nick Burd

Presented as an outline, a controlled sense of emptiness. He was a boy who never learned how to throw a football until the day in a field behind his college dorm, he did. He is unemployed and only leaves the house for bad groceries (snack cakes, orange soda, cough syrup) and to find me twisting in my foyer, too shy to speak. When my voice does come to life, it’s to ask if he would like something to drink. He’s had too much already. I want to put things in him. I want the outline to be filled. There is a note somewhere in the apartment with his screename, my screename, my password, and an apology. If we get married, I will read it at the reception and people will laugh. If I never get married, it will be because I believe in love.

I have made out with pillows, fucked furniture, caressed countertops, argued with light fixtures. I have opened my door to an empty hall and thought, Ghost knock. I have moved from one coast to another and found myself followed by the shirtless and the damned, some of them so similar to the faces I left behind that while I might get their names wrong, I usually have their flaws right. My secret is that I am the same. I am no different. I’ve taken many roads. I was 14 and fucked into oblivion the garage behind my childhood home, a garage I painted during the Summer of No Love, and it has made all the difference. This is why I am always afraid they are going to kill me until I find myself breathing at the ceiling, feeling more alive than ever.

None of them know how to dance. Movement is secondhand and calculated. Always contextual but never hythmic. If you turn on the music, they tune it out. They slouch on the red velvet bench and look around for something cool. You can tell they go out too much because they think the remix sounds more right than the original. It’s this kind of thinking that takes us far away from the artist alone in his room. Try this: take a sip of whatever you’re drinking and then stare into your bedroom and say, “Presented as an outline, a controlled sense of emptiness.” Listen for what comes back.

If you’re lonely, stand close to the window until your reflection brings you comfort. Wait patiently for the moment when the other self breaks away, when the arc of his hand doesn’t quite match yours, when you start to realize he has succeeded in areas you have failed. Get online. Fall into a sinkhole of one-handed communication. Send photographs that portray you as easygoing, popular, naked, big dicked, up for anything, glamorous, supine, wallflowesque, constantly in motion. Describe yourself as hipsterish. Say you like Bjork, the Scissor Sisters, 80’s hair metal. Lie through your teeth and pay attention to the hiss it makes. Nonsmoker. Versatile. Athletic. Swimmers build. Negative. Five foot eleven and a half. Seven and a half inches. Dirty blonde. Ambivalent. Loving. Just a few blocks away.

Nick Burd attended the University of Iowa and received his MFA from the New School. His debut novel The Vast Fields of Ordinary was published in May 2009 by Dial Books for Young Readers and received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Library School Journal, and BookList. The New York Times Sunday Book Review hailed the title as “fascinating and dreamy” and “the best kind of first novel” and also named it a Notable Book of 2009. In 2010, The Vast Fields of Ordinary won the American Library Association’s inaugural Stonewall Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. The book is currently being translated into German and has been optioned for film. His new novel, Andrew Frank, is forthcoming from Dial Books for Young Readers in summer 2011. Nick lives and writes in Brooklyn. [http://www.nick-burd.com]

If I Tell You Enough Times, It Is, 2011

2011-06-07T16:32:00.002+02:00

If I Tell You Enough Times, It Is, 2011

Earn, Spend and Live, 2011

2011-06-07T16:24:00.001+02:00

Earn, Spend and Live, 2011

Free*dom, 2011

2011-06-07T06:09:00.003+02:00

Maurice, 2010-11 from the Soaps

2011-06-07T06:02:00.002+02:00

Maurice, 2010-11, from The Soaps

AJ and Soap Editing...

2011-06-07T05:56:00.001+02:00

Shadows

2011-06-07T05:53:00.001+02:00

Meeting... AJ, 2011

2011-06-06T01:00:00.005+02:00

Here is the latest in my Meeting series... AJ. Each image is 8" x 12", and are hung in succession. You will also notice the shift in opacity, which is intentional. Also included is a detail of the larger piece.

Meeting... AJ, 2011 (Detail)

More can be seen on my website, by clicking here: http://jessefinleyreed.com/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=35&catid=27

All Tomorrows, Ulrich, 2011 (2009)

2011-06-05T23:26:00.003+02:00

I forgot about this wonderful one of Ulrich in Berlin from a few years back...

Los Angeles Combinds, 2011

2011-06-05T18:44:00.004+02:00

Spacious, 2011, from Los Angeles Combinds

Luxurious Living, 2011, from Los Angeles Combinds

The End, Longview, 2011, from Los Angeles Combinds

Beauty, 2011, from Los Angeles Combinds

The End, Backwards, 2011

2011-06-05T06:36:00.004+02:00

Meeting... AJ Outtakes, 2011

2011-06-05T00:17:00.004+02:00

Here are outtakes from my most recent Meeting series... AJ.

Platt-Lynes Reveal, Squared, 2011

2011-06-04T22:39:00.004+02:00

Berlin Stories... and Other Lives: Daniel

2011-06-04T22:27:00.006+02:00

Daniel, Perfectly Relaxed, 2009 from Berlin Stories... and Other Lives

Positively Negative, 2011

2011-06-02T00:21:00.002+02:00

I ___ NY, 2010

2011-06-02T00:20:00.002+02:00

I ? New York, 2010

I ___ NY, 2010

Dis Ease, 2011

2011-06-01T02:10:00.000+02:00

Jonathan Van Dyke's The Long Glance performanced at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery...

2011-05-31T21:30:00.004+02:00

Watch the live feed of Jonathan VanDyke's The Long Glance below. During this performance, VanDyke will stand and contemplate Jackson Pollock’s Convergence, 1952, for forty hours over five days.

http://www.albrightknox.org/news-and-features/features/article:thelongglance/

Nightclub Interiors featured on 2thewalls.com

2011-05-31T21:24:00.004+02:00

A new friend of mine, Keehnan Konyha put together this article reflecting on gay bar spaces. I was lucky to have my work included! Check it out.

http://x2thewalls.squarespace.com/journal/2011/5/23/gay-ghosts-i-lived-in-bars.html

Dennis Chorney Portraits

2011-05-30T21:48:00.001+02:00

Dennis Chorny, Private Eye, Hollywood, CA 2011

Portraits of Ian Street

2011-05-30T21:41:00.002+02:00

I met Ian while he was in town for an actor training workshop. He was fun to work with, and is currently stars in a traveling production of Peter Pan.

Ian Street Ready for his Close Up, 2011

Ian by the Window, 2011

John F.'s Soap...

2011-05-30T19:47:00.002+02:00

John's soap rests in two amazing locations here in West Hollywood, CA. So much so I couldn't decide which was better.

John F. #1, 2011

John F. #2, 2011

All Tomorrows

2010-04-27T03:18:00.011+02:00

All Tomorrows is a news series I have been slowly working on over the last year in Berlin and now Los Angeles. Each of the images is composed of three images, which include a portrait of my subject looking out of their window, paired with my interpretation of what they were looking at.

Meditation #04: Flutter

2009-11-19T09:53:00.002+01:00

Meditation #04: Flutter

Meditation 03: Everyday Shadows

2009-11-17T18:46:00.003+01:00

Here is my newest video from the Meditation Series...

Meditation 03: Everyday Shadows

Kevin, 2009

2009-11-17T09:58:00.001+01:00

Rare Jewels of the World

2009-11-17T09:56:00.001+01:00

Roberto from the Soaps...

2009-11-17T09:27:00.001+01:00

Roberto's glycerin soap.