SEX PAINTING: masturbating girl with steel dildo

Masturbating Girl 9w*** 30 x 22 inches acrylic and charcoal on rives bfk
PLEASE NOTE: this is a preliminary IPHONE photo, filtered and sharpened and whatnot in photoshop, but STILL, ya know ! I will repost this after it is shot with the great lens and camera body. It will look better then.

Now this painting was a lighthearted undertaking. I mean I can only immerse my heart and soul in re-experiencing the death of Suzanne from that grinding, pernicious cancer for just so long before turning my heart and soul to the erotic and delicious vision of a beautiful girl masturbating with the justly famous nJoy Eleven (a steel dildo that is a thing of sculptural beauty in itself)!

DAYS GO BY...NO STUDIO TIME

I've been doing so much of the business chores of art, that it has been too long since I was in the studio. When I knew I wanted to be an artist, what I didn't know was that one day I would be buried in inventories on excel while rebuilding a website, and social networking in a world of web2.0

I have more DEAD SUZANNE paintings to do...they are in my head. I am starting to the huge malaise that builds as days go by without painting.

The "new" profile picture is one of me in my studio around 1985 or so. It was at 1255 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The oil painting behind me is called Up First near the Queensborough, and I hope to find it in storage. It was one of a large body for work called VIEWS FROM A YELLOW CAB. Somebody wants to buy a print. I don't remember selling it; 1985 is so far from these days of excel inventories and digital archiving of my work.

At least the new website is up!!

SEX PAINTING

Masturbating Girl 9o008 24" x 24" oil on linen

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

SEX AND SURRENDER an art exhibit

Sybarite Productions, Colors Consulting Group & Trace Magazine present
Jonathan Herbert
Sex and Surrender
The featured exhibit at ArteRoTica
Madame X, 94 West Houston Street on Thursday October 15th 7 p.m.

SEX AND SURRENDER, a solo exhibit of limited edition prints by JONATHAN HERBERT will open at Madame X, 94 West Houston Street, on October 15th, from 7pm to midnight.

SEX AND SURRENDER focuses on the erotic nature of power exchange. On view are limited edition prints of paintings of women who are sexually aroused by being tied up.

Says Herbert, “Painting I believe, is prayer; thus my work is the direct, 21st century descendant of the medieval monk’s devotional vocation. Further, my approach to art is based on the understanding that the role of the artist is similar to that of the shaman in primitive societies. It is our calling to go where the rest of the tribe cannot, bring back the experience of those difficult spiritual realms and translate it for general consumption. For example I, a member of a necrophobic society, immerse myself in my wife’s journey into death; the paintings that result are gut-wrenchingly powerful and deep, but ever so more gentle than “that good night” which claimed her. Alternatively, in a society conflicted about sexuality, I fan the flames of my libido and pour that energy and experience onto canvas and paper. I see beauty in desolate city streets and agony in a rose opening under a twilit sky.

The trinity of sex, death and redemption are the themes I explore in my art.”

Jonathan Herbert grew up in a house in which the walls were covered with paintings, drawings, and Japanese prints. He was a Museum of Modern Art regular from infancy, and has been an artist for forty years. Since 2003 he has worked in a studio in the Fulton Ferry area of Brooklyn. It is obvious to even the casual viewer that Herbert has an abiding love affair with paint, the substance; like the alchemists, he works in a pre-scientific, pre-technological, approximate and mysterious world. Herbert graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His website is http://www.jonathanherbert.com/.

Curated by Alaric Campbell, ArteRoTica exhibits monthly the works of carefully chosen, New York artists whose work explores erotic themes. Taking place at Madame X, at 94 West Houston Street, in the heart of New York’s West Village, the event features displays of erotic art – fine art, photography, and performance art.

Email Jonathan Herbert for further information.

SEX PAINTING

Submission 8w271 30" x 22" gouache and conté on paper

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

SEX PAINTING

Submission 8w484 30" x 22" acrylic and charcoal on paper

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

DEATH PAINTING

Suzanne Dead 9o007 35" x 27" oil on linen

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

DEATH PAINTING

Suzanne Dead 9d106 9" x 6" charcoal on paper

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

DEATH PAINTING

Suzanne Dying (9o006) 27" x 35" oil on linen

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

DEATH PAINTING

Suzanne Dying (9o005) 20" x 20" oil on linen

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

SEX AND DEATH PAINTINGS: Open Studio

Suzanne post Vertebrectomy (4d18) 24" x 18"conte and charcoal on paper

OPEN STUDIO
as part of the
DUMBO UNDER THE BRIDGE ART FESTIVAL



68 Jay Street No. 803, Brooklyn, NY 11201



Saturday 9/26 and Sunday 9/27 from 1 pm to 5 pm

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

DEATH PAINTING

Suzanne Dying (9w048) 30" x 22" acrylic on paper

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

DEATH PAINTING

Suzanne Dying (9w047) 30" x 22" acrylic on paper

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

DEATH PAINTING

Dead Suzanne (9o04) 60" x 40" oil on linen

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

DEATH PAINTING

Dead Suzanne (9w073) acrylic and charcoal on paper 72" x 52"

This painting and other related SEX AND DEATH artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

Naked Girl

SSS 9d92 24" x 18" charcoal on paper

Related NAKED GIRLS artworks can be viewed on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

Naked Girl

SSS 9w15 24" x 18" brush and ink on paper

Other related NAKED GIRLS artworks can be viewed in that gallery on my website.

JONATHAN HERBERT

Naked Girl

SSS 9w11 24" x 18" acrylic and charcoal on paper

Naked Girl

SSS 9d25 30" x 22" acrylic and charcoal on paper

Naked Girl

SSS 9w24 30" x 22" acrylic and charcoal on paper