Artist Talk with Christiana Jackson (Erotic Art for Ungrateful Men)

Join us for a Q+A conversation with the Photographer, touching on topics of sexual identity, experience, and education. SEATS ARE LIMITED!

When we asked Christiana what her main goal was with this exhibition, her response was simple - "I want people to talk". We hosted an exhibition opening (no cell-phones allowed!) and that's exactly what happened. Conversations on sexual identity, experience, and education filled the room. On April 18th, we welcome you to continue these conversations with Christiana in a Q+A style artist talk.

About the Exhibition

Paired alongside text-message responses from men with whom Christiana shared self-portrait nudes, Erotic Art for Ungrateful Men celebrates her body and artistic eye while revealing a social response: an entitlement to her body. The body—traditionally consumed as a silent spectacle, and less often publicly represented in the same shade and size as Christiana’s—is recontextualized through messages that reveal the transactional, often demanding gaze imposed upon it. The exhibition displays the fantasy of passive eroticism, fractured in the reflection of how desire and intimacy are policed by expectations, and mediated.

About the Artist

Christiana Jackson is a New York-based photographer and standup comedian. Her works defy unspoken norms and range in subject, from longform projects in Black Cuba showing a side of the island atypical in the world of fine-art photography to self-portraits contextualizing her and men’s relationships to her sexuality.

Disclaimer: The show is comprised of nude images. By attending, you consent to seeing these images.