Details:

This painting depicts the torso of a nude figure whose breasts are being pinched by another figure. The artist's works rely on overlaying transgressive topics onto everyday scenes, reengaging viewers with the core experiences that humans share across identities and idiosyncrasies.
Unframed
Signed

① Artwork:

Cock’s Crow

This painting depicts the torso of a nude figure whose breasts are being pinched by another figure—seen only as two hands, as the rest of their body is beyond the picture frame. The action is both overtly sexual and also playful; the darkness of the pinching hands contrasts sharply with the pale tan lines of the nude torso. The blue sky background is adorned in the corner by a lone yellow sun—intimating a tropical or beach scene.

The artist's narrative paintings explore eroticism with humor and intimacy, combining motifs and tropes from art history with contemporary aesthetics. Lamb's works overlay transgressive topics onto everyday scenes, reengaging viewers with the core experiences humans share across identities and idiosyncrasies.

Specs:

20 inches
16 inches

③ Artist:

Corey Lamb

Corey Lamb’s holistic approach to painting combines contemporary aesthetics with motifs and tropes drawn from art history. The artist constructs narratives around existential concepts, using eroticism, humor and intimacy to create points of entry for the viewer. Lamb’s work transposes the transgressive over the familiar to underline and reengage with the shared experiences that unite people across identities and idiosyncrasies.

BIO:

Corey Lamb was born in Texas in 1983. The artist received an MFA in Painting from Indiana University at Bloomington in 2016.

Lamb’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at: Hashimoto Contemporary in New York City, San Francisco, California and Los Angeles, California; and at Galerie Wolfson in Aalborg, Denmark.

Lamb lives and works in South Florida. The artist is currently established as an Assistant Professor of Painting at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.

Corey Lamb:
Cock’s Crow, 2021
Oil on canvas
16.0 × 20.0 inches /