San Francisco Pride Leather Marshall Steve Gaynes at The 15 Association’s beer bust at the SF Eagle. Gaynes will be pulled by a human pony in a cart up Market Street, heading up the Leather contingent at what promises to be the biggest, most festive Pride ever. You know why! This is the year to march. Gaynes is a local businessman, active in the community, a fraternal member of The 15, husband of artist Richard Bolingbroke, and Dad to a few lucky boys. A well-deserved honor!
Category Archives: Richard Bolingbroke
Hey, Leathermen! March with the Marshall…
Posted in GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Human Animals, iPhone, Leather, Men, Photography, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Sexy Holidays, Subcultures
Tagged 15 Association, Beer Bust, iPhone photography, Leather, Leather Marshall, S/m, SF Eagle, SF Pride, Steve Gaynes
Hot Draw! Mark I. Chester hosts Gay Men’s Kinky Sketch Group in San Francisco
Hosted by Mark I. Chester, an institution in the San Francisco gay art scene for a long time now. Best known as a photographer, Chester is also an underground artist who opens his SOMA studio to regular life-drawing sessions, including the monthly Hot Draw! – Devoted to fans of kinky gay male erotica. Themes of power, control, submission, fetish, gear, S/m and kink galore dominate at these events. Pictured here is Dan Becker’s quick sketch of artist Richard Bolingbroke’s sub bear paul on all fours. That would be Bolingbroke’s boot: good bear! More on Hot Draw! here. Interested in getting your hot self in front of Chester’s hot camera lens? That can happen, too. Information here.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Art and Artists, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Leather, Men, North America, Photography, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Subcultures
Tagged Art, BDSM, Bear, Boots, Culture, Dan Becker, Erotic, Gay, Homoerotic, Hot Draw!, Kink, Leather, Male, Mark I. Chester, Photography, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Sexy, sub bear
The Robot and the Lifeguard
Watercolor Robot circa 2010 by Richard Bolingbroke. Paired with a nice Saturday Evening Post cover of nearly a century earlier. The humpy lifeguard is supposed to be guarding those drowning flappers, but he’s got eyes for something – or someone – very different!
Richard Bolingbroke Paints LIVE in a Display Window in downtown San Francisco!
This photo is of Carole Moore, working in the window last week.
He’s been at it for three days, and will continue until 10pm tonight. If you are in downtown San Francisco, drop by 581 Market Street at Second to watch him work in the big window of what was once Stacey’s Books. More on Richard Bolingbroke here and here.
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Tagged Art, Culture, Gay, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Signage
The Amazing Artman! Richard Bolingbroke launches new Website…
Richard Bolingbroke. Lost. 2009. From the series "Art is a Four Letter Word"
Friend of this site Richard Bolingbroke has launched a new website. Bolingbroke says of his series Art is a Four Letter Word: “Words and images are the two main ways we communicate and understand the world around us. In these paintings I explore the interplay of words and images in an effort to understand both the innate tension that exists between these two methods of defining and recording ideas, and the bond that they can create with intellect and sensation.” His new site is live, here. Enjoy!
Posted in Collecting, Internet, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Spirituality
Tagged Art, Culture, Gay, Image/Text, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Spirituality, Watercolor
Richard Bolingbroke’s Family Portraits at QIY – Big Gay Art Show in SF
Opening Saturday from 1-4 pm at SOMArts: Queer It Yourself: Tools for Survival. How do we make and do things that will have a lasting import? Straight culture has its traditions, institutions and social formulations and so have we. Sometimes they are parallel, other times a bit askew. When queers ask one another: “Is he family?” the word means something very different than when it is deployed as a semiotic weapon, as is the case with the coded phrase “family values.” How can we reconfigure notions (ie: the family) that have historically been used to separate, condemn and alienate us into useful tools for our collective long-term survival?
Artist and friend of this site Richard Bolingbroke explains how this works for him:
“These two pieces are part of my series Family Portrait in which I portray the men and women I am close to. As a gay man I needed to create my own ‘Family’ and I decided to document it myself rather than let straight society do it for me.. These men are my lovers and close friends. This is my community, my family. There are over 40 drawings in this series and these two of Frank and Luca, and Gary and Joe, are of couples who have both been together over 30 years.”
You can see Bolingbroke’s portraits, and lots of other fresh art Saturday afternoon at SOMArts, 934 Brannan Street in San Francisco. Opening at the same time in the side gallery: A History of Queer Street Art. More on that later.
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Tagged Art, Culture, Gay, QIY, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco
Richard Bolingbroke’s Personal Encounter with a Video Storm
San Francisco artist and friend of this site Richard Bolingbroke recently visited a video installation at the exhibit Breathed…Unsaid…Exploring Personal Encounters with Cultural Diaspora at San Francisco’s Somarts Gallery. He took photographs of his shadow playing across the screen to produce these King Lear-like images: a solitary figure in silhouette, seemingly struggling with the burden of power – or maybe just raging against the oncoming storm. For more on Bolingbroke and his more typical methods of art-making, click here and here.
Posted in Art and Artists, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Video
Tagged Art, Culture, Gay, Richard Bolingbroke, Somarts, Video
The Gay Highwaymen 