Joe Sinness
![Colored pencil on paper, 12" x 19", 2014, Sold Joe Sinness - Veil](https://static.spacecrafted.com/b1d3dc2c91914ea39d2f012f65491d58/i/d2102727bbe842cba07858dd1c979dc0/1/4SoifmQpDrHbZJ6VvdPAk/Sinness_Veil.jpg)
![Colored pencil on paper, 22" x 19", 2015, $2400 Joe Sinness - Almost Paradise](https://static.spacecrafted.com/b1d3dc2c91914ea39d2f012f65491d58/i/cec21fead0fd45a59816840f4f798bd6/1/4SoifmQpDrHbZJ6VvdPAk/Sinness_AlmostParadise.jpg)
![Colored pencil on paper, 15" x 11", 2015, $1200 Joe Sinness - Left Behind](https://static.spacecrafted.com/b1d3dc2c91914ea39d2f012f65491d58/i/ca0f6a77abfa419f9f2b3df9e2cbffc5/1/4SoifmQpDrHbZJ6VvdPAk/Sinness_LeftBehind.jpg)
![Colored pencil on paper, 22" x 19", 2015, $2400 Joe Sinness - Guest Star](https://static.spacecrafted.com/b1d3dc2c91914ea39d2f012f65491d58/i/a2c3924885cd449f826ef2ff9a764580/1/4SoifmQpDrHbZJ6VvdPAk/Sinness_GuestStar.jpg)
![Colored Pencil on Paper, 25" x 19", 2014, $2400 Joe Sinness - Tip](https://static.spacecrafted.com/b1d3dc2c91914ea39d2f012f65491d58/i/c665316e130648968165a0300c7c65f6/1/4SoifmQpDrHbZJ6VvdPAk/Sinness_Tip.jpg)
In my drawings, cinematic performance and sexual desire is filtered through the genre of still life. Through the process of selecting and arranging objects and subjects that I adore, photographing them, and then re-presenting them in colored pencil on paper, they - the drawings - become yet another type of fetishized commodity. The seductive trappings of photorealistic drawings of staged still lifes become glossy, yet melancholic tributes to queer performance. This performance is a type of strip tease and creates an erotic tension loop between what may be considered the sacred and the profane. I am interested in the preservation of the codes and languages of queer history and culture. Much like coded discourse, the still lifes tease but never fully reveal.