SaveArtSpace x Alphachanneling is excited to present Erotic Nature - Wild Joy, a public art exhibition on billboard ad spaces in New York, opening September 13, 2024, curated by Alphachanneling.

The Erotic Nature - Wild Joy selected artists are Arrington de Dionyso, Real Fun, Wow!, Julia Grayson, and Robert Lucy.

Have you ever felt Nature evoke in you your raw, untamed erotic instincts? Does the interconnection between erotic pleasure and the elemental force and beauty of nature awaken something in you? Erotic Nature - Wild Joy explores the deep, primal connection between erotic desire and the natural world.

Embrace nature’s life-giving power and explore how it compels your erotic energy and sexual vitality. Let your creativity flow and show us your vision where the generative power of the Earth merges with human sexuality in a fluid and unbounded exploration of both.

Opening September 13, 2024, SaveArtSpace will launch public art installations for each selected work on billboard ad spaces in Brooklyn, NY. The public art will be on view for at least one month.

Selected Artists

Location: 40th Ave & 10th St, Queens, NY

Arrington de Dionyso (b. January 4 1975) started making art before he could speak, developing a richly colored universe of personal imagery including dragons, giant cats, dancing crows, and humanoid flower tree hybrid creatures. He's still doing the exact same thing almost half a century later, maybe he's even improved a little in that time. Since moving to Olympia, Washington in 1992, Arrington has developed an international following for his underground experimental music projects as a solo performer and with bands such as Old Time Relijun, Malaikat dan Singa, and This Saxophone Kills Fascists. His paintings have been featured on dozens of album covers and hundreds of concert posters. He was the featured artist in the SS2015 "Psych Rock Collection" by Hedi Slimane for Saint Laurent Paris with his painting "Angels and Dragons in Deep Conversation" embroidered on jackets, backpacks, shoes and swimwear. His book "Molecular Temples: The Sacred Mushroom Paintings" documents work made in isolation during the 2020 pandemic. 

Connect with Arrington on Instagram at @arringtondedionyso or on Bandcamp.

Location: Park Ave & Carlton Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Daren Thomas Magee, also known as Real Fun, Wow!, is an artist, muralist, and designer based in Ojai, California. He is known for his unique and captivating art style that blends surrealism, minimalism, and whimsical elements. His work often features nature-inspired themes, cosmic imagery, and thought-provoking messages. Magee's art is widely recognized for its distinctive aesthetic, which often includes bold lines, vibrant colors, and intricate patterns. He has collaborated with various brands and created murals, prints, and other artworks that resonate with a wide audience.

Connect with Real Fun, Wow! on Instagram at @realfunwow.

Julia Grayson Eva, Staji

Location: Morgan Ave & Stagg St, Brooklyn, NY

Julia Grayson was born in Trenton, NJ in 1990. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She works primarily with charcoal on fabric, creating abstracted photorealistic life-sized works. Julia's artwork serves as a vehicle to access her own desires for freedom. Her drawings depict the mesmerizing power of feminine sensuality. She finds deep meaning in drawing her close friends and people in her community, creating space for them to feel uninhibited and free.

Connect with Julia on Instagram at @juliagrayson_.

Robert Lucy Camouflage, 22"x16", Colored Pencil on Colored Paper, 2024 & Garden, 22"x16", Colored Pencil on Colored Paper, 2023

Location: Steinway St & 23rd Rd, Queens, NY

Robert Lucy graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in painting. In Chicago he showed for many years with The Sonia Zaks Gallery. His work belongs in many distinguished private collections, and several museums including The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at The University of Chicago, where Sea Fashions, his suite of colored pencil drawings was exhibited alongside the work of Barbara Rossi and Robert Barnes. In New York City, Robert was part of the AIM (Artist in the Marketplace) Program at The Bronx Museum, showing at the museum in the summer of 2011 as part of the program’s 30th anniversary. More recently his work was included in 2017 FOUND Queer Archeology; Queer Abstraction at The Leslie Lohman Museum in NYC. In 2007, Lucy co-founded The Secret City, an Obie-award winning arts organization, with his husband Chris Wells.

Statement

I trained as a painter. Drawing served a practical purpose; it was a skill that supported my work. When I discovered colored pencils, this changed. Realizing I could create overlapping images, I began to draw what felt like an unexplored world. This new creative output consumed me, the drawings grew in ambition. I developed a technique using multiple sources to create multidimensional space within a drawing, thick layering allowed the images to stand on their own while becoming accessories to the other images in the same work. My first suite of drawings, Sea Fashions, contained eleven portraits based on a variety of visual sources–-tintypes, sepia-toned photos, 19th century medical textbooks, cartes de visite. These were accompanied by sea creatures and set against a variety of art historical backdrops: Garden of Earthly Delights, a photo studio backdrop, Disney animation cel. Last year, after being asked to teach a colored pencil class, I conceived of a new series of portraits: queer men, taken from vintage photos and set into dreamlike landscapes. This new series, titled Paradise, represents my desire to create a new visual history, where queerness isn’t aberrant, but a beautiful part of nature.

Connect with Robert on Instagram at @robertlucyartist.

Curator

Location: 3rd Ave & 11th St, Brooklyn, NY

Alphachanneling’s artwork is a holistic exaltation of sexuality, it is carnal, explicit and provocative, but in the most gentle, graceful and reverential way. The artist’s mythical world of the Utopian Erotic has charmed an international audience through exhibition, publication and a massive and enthusiastic following on Instagram. Pleasure is central to the intention and inspiration driving Alphachanneling’s work. “It is the compass that points me towards what is alive and activating, both in my life and my art making. Pleasure is the overwhelming state of being in harmony, where for a moment, the boundary of what is internal and external dissolves.”

Connect with Alphachanneling on Instagram at @alphachanneling.

Participating Organizations

Founded in 2015, SaveArtSpace is a non-profit organization that works to create an urban gallery experience, launching exhibitions that address intersectional themes and foster a progressive message of social change. By placing culture over commercialism, SaveArtSpace aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives and activists.