So, I bought this drawing last night. Earlier that day, I had looked at Taylor Buck’s Blog and saw the text below. It’s only the 3rd piece of artwork I’ve ever bought (signed Star Trek artwork counts!). I couldn’t let anyone else have this drawing. I didn’t like the idea of someone else having he and I on their wall. And they were going fast. He sold 5 drawings in less than 2 hr.
“This one was inspired by a good friend of mine, He knows who he is….Nothing better than a rubber/leather boot between a boys legs!”- Taylor Buck
And here’s a review from a professional art critic that was displayed at the LA&M.
Inspired by his background in fashion and fetish, Taylor Buck reinvents the classic homoerotic genre with his structurally modeled images of fetish-clad male beauty. His graphite and ink figures offer a subtle sensuality that is at once both intimate and powerful. Through variations of organic contours, he creates young men who embody the sexual delicacy of youth and the bold pride of the new fetish world. These are the boys of Buck’s generation, the fresh fetishists who audaciously express sex and self, unapologetically.
Unlike the classic images of the 20th century, the subjects are not framed by architectural noise – they stand alone, comfortable in their own latex skins. They do not snarl or threaten, nor are they engaged in priapic sexual aggression within the seedy backdrops of a basement bar, a dark alley, a military barracks. Buck’s unique style relies in the static atmosphere of erotically charged potential, whether the subject is the lone-standing Rubber Boy, or the kinky buffet of Slave Auction #1, his subjects are sovereign figures of their own creation. With such a brave statement of self-assurance and sexual awareness, they simultaneously become the men we want to be and be with.
Buck’s generation of fashion-conscious sexual expression was never fully addressed in the classic works of Tom of Finland or Etienne – Buck gives us an unabashed series of delicately sculpted, sleek images where fetish is fashion, sex is self. If this is the promise of a fresh, self-reflective generation, a new direction for homoerotic art and the future of the kink community, then be grateful Taylor Buck has given us these indelible images.
Brian Smith, Adjunct Professor of Art History, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
