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“I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.” - Erica Jong

In a feature article Hustler magazine did on Eric Kroll’s photographs several years ago they called him a “prick with a vision”. I prefer to call Eric an artist who isn’t afraid to put it in your face and say here it is, get over it or get out. Kroll’s images, sprinkled with subtle references to his heroes like Man Ray and John Willie, dance in a carnival of serious sensuality. That’s not to say that his work lacks a sense of (sick) humor. Humor plays a large roll in much of Kroll’s work. For example the photograph of his muse/girlfriend Gwen covered in birdseed, lounging in nothing but a pair of horn-rimmed sunglasses entitled “Girlfriend As Birdfeeder” or “Vagina Dentata” in which Gwen again is caught peering at the many cacti needles protruding from the inside of her thighs!

Born the day after Man Ray’s marriage to Juliet Browner (Oct 24, 1946) Kroll, since the late 1980’s, has felt free enough to explore with his photography the ‘unmentionable’ subject of sexuality. This November The Shooting Gallery will be exhibiting several hundred images in the first ever retrospective of Kroll’s work dating back to the publication of Sex Objects, an Addison House publication(1977), including work from Fetish Girls, Tachen 1994, Eric Kroll’s Beauty Parade, Tachen 1997, and the two volumes of The Transformations of Gwen, NBM publications 2000, 2001.

Ps. Expect something irregular, almost irreverent, the night of Kroll’s opening.

“Every Mother’s Nightmare”
Reception for the artist November 6, 2003
Open to the press from 6pm to 8pm
Open to the public from 8pm to 11pm
Showing November 4 through December 6

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