Detained
Acrylic and collage on canvas
20″ x 16″
2007

SOLD in the GLAAD OUTAuction NYC 2009, November 15, 2009.

Exhibited at the Parts of the Whole exhibition at the Conrad Wilde Galley, October 6-27, 2007.

From the Tucson Weekly, published October 4th, 2007:

“Parts of the Whole, a show of collage and assemblage opening this Saturday during The Big Picture, a free gala evening of multiple receptions sponsored by the Central Tucson Gallery Association… Of all the Parters, New Yorker Greg Stephens sticks closest to painting, but look closely, and you’ll see printed pictures glued in between layers of bumpy, rusty-colored acrylics. “Detained” has a sensuous St. Sebastian pushing at the rafters that rein him in, and nearby, a pair of 1950s gents in crewcuts.”

The image of Sebastian was appropriated from a painting by Jusepe de Ribera. The “gents in crewcuts” are from a Chinese language booklet of Biblical stories. Images from that booklet also appear in other works of mine, like the endpaper of Our beginnings never know our ends.