Pleasure Pusher: XXX
new works by Trish Nixon
The artist dedicates Pleasure Pusher XXX to Michael Clinard, commercial photographer and
brilliant artist. This is for you my friend. RIP. 100% of proceeds generated from this show will go towards a LGBTQ organization of Nixon's choice.
"My aim is to articulate truthfully what it means to inhabit my body. Rawness, pleasure, and
deviant behavior are what excite me most. Currently, my studio practice is taking me on a search
for a new kind of sexual imagery, one where lines are blurred between gender constructs. The
work crosses into various fields from painting to digital media. Installation and performance are
also appropriate platforms. Food and pleasure are a consistent theme throughout. My images
allow me the freedom to embrace my sexual body anyway I please. I do not seek to establish a
barrier between the work and explicit imagery. Nor do I seek to align my work with a grand
aesthetic scheme. At this time, my images speak to sexual desires and fetishes outside of a
normative framework surrounding sex. It is within this framework where I express my
queerness, my vulnerability, and my need to constantly question." -Nixon
Trish Nixon recently earned an MFA from the University of Kansas and a BFA in Photography
(with an emphasis in Art History) from Memphis College of Art. She has performed her action,
“Food and the Visceral Body” for Flesh Crisis at Arts Dojo (Kansas City) and at Last Frontier
(Brooklyn). Her proposed presentation, Body/ Pleasure/ Power: Locating Queerness Through
Transgressive Self-Expression has been selected to be included in the Transgender Spectrum
Conference in November at Washington State University (St. Louis). Within her studio practice,
she investigates aspects of queer theory, gender, and art. She questions the normative framework
relating to the body and sexual behavior by often times producing explicit gestures through
various visual platforms.
For more on Trish Nixon and her work go to:
http://deskoftrish.tumblr.com/
https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/21882
www.instagram.com/trishnpictures/
Opening Reception during First Friday, August 4th, from 6-10pm