No Foul
Terra cotta, underglaze
14 x 15 x 5”
2008
(Close-up and gallery view)

Muscle Pose Urn #2
terra cotta, underglaze
15 x 12 x 3"
2008
(Close-up and gallery view)

Michael Pfleghaar revisits imagery from vintage and pop culture to draw new ways of rethinking the gay persona and homoerotica. The process of painting, sculpting, casting, and silk screening imagery on clay and paper, has provided a visual language with which to raise questions about our notions the past and future gay man. By working in terra cotta clay, a very fragile material, Pfleghaar seeks to undermine the masculine flesh he depicts. From Greek urns, to Eadweard Muybridge vintage photography, and appropriated imagery from gay dating websites, these are the sources of my archaeological finds.