John Currin is an artist known for his provocative take on both modern life and art history, in paintings that meld together the crude with the erotic, and the derivative with the new. While much of his work has been dominated by images of the opposite sex, often featuring women in highly sexualized positions, a new exhibition at Dallas Contemporary focuses exclusively on Currin’s depictions of his own gender. My Life as a Man examines provocative depictions of a range of masculine identities from over the course of his career, spanning work from the beginning of the 1990s to today.
