Kyle Ranson’s tortured sexuality is now seared onto my retinas via his manic, splattered, candy-colored paintings.

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Sex permeates our lives in some very unexpected ways, coloring not only the idealized memories of some people in our lives, but also the frustrating banality of the time spent those same people. Reuben Negron captures all the nuances — loneliness, sadness, detached kinkiness — of our erotic selves with his paintings that often read like single-panel narratives.

Gregory Jacobsen’s grotesque paintings are disturbed reinterpretations of classical themes and compositions, the product of a tortured imagination that smears the distinctions between the sexual and the scatological, the beautiful and the perverse. Smothered in fleshy and fetid pinks and browns, Jacobsen creates a world that his band, Lovely Little Girls, might inhabit, where still-lifes and tableau’s of the past have sprouted mold and maggots.

Our friends over at Sex In Art have posted a stunning work by Chinese artist Guan Zeju. There’s such a subtlety and depth of sensuality about her portraits. Truly beautiful.