# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16049738-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2015-09-08T20:23:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

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Read our latest blog post on our SoHo neighbor Artists Space's​ ongoing Tom of Finland exhibition. On view through this Sunday! 
Excerpt: "Touko Laaksonen, aka Tom of Finland, worked for decades as a senior art director at the global advertising agency McCann Erickson. While he worked his day job in advertising, he launched his career as a homoerotic artist with drawings contributed to Physique Pictorial and other “beefcake” publications of the 1950s. The Artists Space exhibition shows how his commercial work informed these drawings. The collages and cutouts show how deeply – almost obsessively – Tom sourced his imagery, with page after page of handsome open-faced young men and distinct taxonomies of other images: motorcycles, leather jackets, military uniforms, sexual positions.  They also show how preoccupied he was with the accoutrements of masculinity. In the work of Tom of Finland, masculinity is defined at least as much by what a man wears as by what a man looks like." -Champ Knecht, Deputy Director for Administration 
Continue here on drawingcenter.org. Click on the lower, right-hand circle. 
#TomofFinland artistsspace #drawing #SoHo 
Image: Tom of Finland, Untitled, 1975. Gouache on paper, 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Courtesy Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles.

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