The art of Shinji Horimura

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Lagrimas del Mar (2016).

The gay artists archive continues to be the most popular destination on these pages which makes me feel I ought to add to it more often than I do. Not all of Shinji Horimura’s art is homoerotic but these drawings from his WAH series certainly are. In these and other works Horimura renders the male body with broken outlines that fragment into abstract patterns. In the black-and-white drawings these might be read as tattoos but in his colour art they suggest the hallucinatory revelations of Alex Grey’s paintings. There’s more to see on the artist’s Coroflot pages.

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Loosen (2016).

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