This collection shows the struggles the gay community faced in the 1980’s. Each piece is dated a year during the ten years that AIDS was allowed to go wild, and kill off a large part of our community. It was a dark time for us. For those of us that lived through and survived, it left us with a feeling of guilt for surviving. This series helped me to process a time that most have forgotten. The disease took their bodies, their minds and left them a shell of what they were. They were left in forgotten hospital wards in filth. I want to show them in their former glory as they ascend to a better place.
Show your pride. A collection of pride images that show varies pride flags. Always looking to create more pride images. Wanna join in ?
Images that show just how Diverse our Communities are. Celebrate the Diversity !!
This series is to show the faces in our community. A person can hold different roles and still be one person. A person can be themselves but with the help of a partner to make them whole. This series shows the complexity of our community and the person in many faces but as a whole.
I was born and raised in Niagara Falls, NY and spent 15 years in Long Island and Manhattan. Fine Art trained with a Fine Arts degree. Produced Art and design for years as a freelance artist but never found art that pushed my passions. In the Fetish/Leather community for many years. Proud leather boi. Found models from all over the world that wanted their voice heard and wanted to show what the community means to them. This incited a passion inside me to tell their stories in art. I really wanted to show that community to others through their eyes.. Wanting to pull the Fetish Art world out of the shadows of shame and into the mainstream for all to see. Our community is vibrant and colorful and I wanted to showcase that with a unique style and viewpoint. Taking art into the modern world as my art is all digitally produced and then hand painted on my I-Phone. Showing the Art world that Digital Art is indeed a valid form of Art. My pieces are painted in vivid color and made to jump off the wall and draw you into them. Realism with a modern cartoon effect. Art is made to be viewed and I make sure my art is accessible to all. Art is not for the rich only but for all to view and own.
Artwork has been featured in the 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 CLAW Kinky Art show. Runner up in the 2021 Dandy Queer Art International Art show,. Appeared in the 2021 Emerging Artist Contest from Tom of Finland, . Also was featured in the 2021 Tom of Finland's Art and Culture Festival. Artwork can be seen in the Wilton Manor Eagle Bar, at the Eagle Bar in San Francisco and at the CellBlock in Chicago. Now also in the Eagle bar in Atlanta. featured artist at the First Kink Down South vendor Mart in Atlanta, GA. Also the Featured artist at SOT event in Syracuse NY. Artwork is now featured on the BLUF web store for sale as prints. Only Fetish artist to show his work on the BLUF webstore. Art will appear in the feature documentary film called “A Loving Brotherhood”, filmed at the Cellblock in Chicago. Custom Pieces and Portraits can be commissioned, please email: worksbywoody1@gmail.com for details.
