"Art & Sex" Lecture at Watershed Gallery

Watershed Gallery will host a lecture entitled "Art and Sex” at 7pm on Saturday, September 7th.   The talk will be led by noted artist and lecturer, David Dunlop, and will explore sex as motivation, motif, and the unconscious and overt determinant of the appearance and process of art.  A reception will immediately follow the presentation.

“Art reveals the spectrum of human behavior and imagination born from sex,” says Dunlop, who has given art history lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  “The tantalizing, the pleasuring, the experimenting, the teasing, the torturing, the lecturing, the humiliating, the humbling, the deceiving, the fantasizing and the boasting aspects of our sexuality are expressed in art. They are the subject of this examination of our first 25,000 years art and sex.” 

David Dunlop is the host of the Emmy Award-winning PBS series, Landscapes Through Time.  A teacher at Silvermine Arts Center since 1993, his own artwork is nationally known and featured in many prominent collections throughout the U.S. and abroad.  Dunlop’s lecture series, always stimulating and fun, sell out quickly – often with standing room only available. 

“Art reveals the abuse of power to obtain sex, physical instruction, religious warnings, satiric commentary, social condemnation, and personal fantasies,” adds Dunlop. “Discover how our sexual compulsions were unveiled in art through the ages.  This talk connects what we know about our neurochemistry to our behavior, and how our sexual thoughts and behavior are unstoppable forces – determining how we live and how we make our art.”

The lecture will be held at Watershed Gallery, 23 Governor Street. There is no charge to attend, but space is limited.  Please register at info@watershedgallery.com or 203.438.4387.