This striking black-and-white photograph depicts a model or performer in a dramatic pose. The image features a muscular, shirtless figure crouched on the floor, surrounded by a dark, ominous backdrop. The subject's intense gaze and the contrast between their powerful physique and the somber setting create a sense of tension and unease. The artist's use of stark chiaroscuro lighting and the inclusion of a biohazard symbol suggest a commentary on themes of danger, vulnerability, and perhaps even societal toxicity. Overall, the piece conveys a brooding, unsettling atmosphere through its minimalist yet captivating visual style. ...
Sergio Miguel builds hybrid worlds where beauty bleeds into the grotesque, drawing energy from colonial legacies and contemporary myth-making. His paintings channel a Baroque sensibility—rich with chiaroscuro, ornate detailing, and a shadowy potency—infused with subversive, erotic strangeness. His imagery emerges from the tensions of colonial-era casta paintings and mythic iconographies—reimagined through modern queer urgency. Figures verge on the animalistic or angelic, poised at the threshold of transformation, challenging rigid identity markers and inviting psychological ambiguity. Miguel’s compositions often feature young men alongside fantastical beasts—Minotaurs, demonic horses, otherworldly hybrids—set within stark, decay-ridden industrial backdrops that amplify the tension between flesh and ruin. Anchored in art-history reference points from Goya and medieval bestiaries to Colonial Mexican portraiture and New Objectivity, his technique blends precise draftsmanship with visceral textures. Blood, bone, flesh—and the wound—carry symbolic as well as tactile weight. Miguel’s practice interrogates the legacies of oppression, sensuality, and transformation. His paintings pulse with formal elegance and uncanny dissonance, crafting a visual language where identity becomes fluid, and myth feels urgently contemporary. ...
Company Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located at 145 Elizabeth street in the Soho neighbourhood of Manhattan. The gallery was established in 2015 by Sophie Mörner. Since 2022, Taylor Trabulus became a partner in the gallery. The gallery currently represents Tosh Basco, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Yve Laris Cohen, Hayden Dunham, TM Davy, Leyla Faye, Katherine Hubbard, Colette Lumiere, Jeanette Mundt, Raúl de Nieves, Troy Montes Michie, Women's History Museum, Ambera Wellmann and Cajsa von Zeipel, as well as the estate of seminal artist Barbara Hammer. The gallery creates artist books in tandem with Capricious Publishing, which was established in 2003 to support feminist and queer-focused art and writing. ...
