Bruce G. Hooke
 
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Male Nude

The time of the man in the suit is over, at least in its 1950’s “man’s man” version. Yet even in the 21st Century many messages still tell men we’re supposed to be strong, assertive, in control: running the world, bending nature and other people to our will. But more and more this path seems at best futile and at worst leads to darkness. I seek to understand what it means to be alive in this time, what it could mean to find new ways to relate to nature, and what it could mean to find new ways of thinking about the place of men and the male body in our world. How does it affect our thinking if a man is portrayed as vulnerable, exposed, close to nature, and even beautiful: the modes historically and still commonly used for the female nude? Can the naked male body ever be seen as anything other than threatening, especially in this age of #MeToo? I seek new ways of inhabiting my male body. I seek to interrogate how women and men have been portrayed in art and culture. I seek to change how we think about men and the male body in relationship with the natural and human realms. I challenge gender stereotypes and explore our thought processes and feelings about the naked male body.

2022

A Long Time Ago

2020

Crossing Over

2017

Wandering

2020

Watching

2016

Shy

2018

The Icy Road

2018

Contemplating a Rose

2021

Mountain Valley

2017

Bathing Beauty

2019

Last Light

2021

After

2020

I Love You

2020

Emerging

2020

Ruins

2021

Underwater

2021

Vast

2021

Big Rock, Little Rock

2021

Backed into a Crack

2019

Fenced Off

2019

Falling

2020

Amidst Humanity’s Waste

2018

Trash Fire

2017

Confrontation

2019

Concrete and Iron

2020

Into the Fall

2020

Balancing

2017

Behind the Door

2019

Spread Out

2019

How I Sometimes Feel About Masculinity

2020

A Man Proud of What He’s Wrought

2020

Misplaced Masculinity

2018

Abandoned

2018

Uncertainty

2018

Stillness

2020

Modesty

2019

Quiet

2019

Barrel Lookout

2020

Picking Wild Irises

2019

Flowers Beside the Stream

2021

River Spirit

2017

Vulnerable, Exposed, Anonymous. Beautiful?

2020

Emerging into the Light

2018

An Offering

2021

Tea

2019

Deep Inside

2019

Inside the Canyon

2019

Canyon Stillness

2019

Deep in the Canyon

2019

The Great Alcove

2020

Double Window

2018

Cornered

2020

Lost

2018

Watching Winter’s Arrival

2017

Wrapped

2021

Someday, I’ll Fly Away

© Bruce G. Hooke, 1991 - 2023