CANDELAR 2022: CANDUNE
JUNE FEATURE:
Men Kissing, 2019. 5 x 7 inches, Edition of 9 + 2 AP.
The Candelar’s Candune card features the image, “Men Kissing” by New York photographer, Joey Solomon. Solomon photographs people and fleeting experiences of joy, intimacy, pain, and isolation.
Joey Solomon’s images are to advocate for invisible, internal highs and lows of the mentally afflicted human experience. As an openly gay man with mental disorders who has survived an internal pelvic tumor, Solomon's influence is medical.
The current work the artist makes hones in on Solomon's left leg and becoming able bodied again. Joey Solomon makes images of the self, the brain, physical trauma, performance and the psychology of communicating emotional and physical responses to others through portraits.
Joey Solomon's prescription antidepressants as well as the artist’s hospitalization stays have informed his disuse for color to focus on maintaining a monochrome world of foggy limbo, suspending reality in each frame on purpose, focusing on questioning form. If nothing else, Solomon’s work serves to affirm a learning process of our tender and dysfunctional species.
Solomon received his BFA in Photography & Imaging from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2019 and was the recipient of the Hopper Prize in 2020.
