Penny Slinger Show in San Francisco

Penny Slinger Comes Back to the Future

The controversial artist from the 1970s, Penny Slinger, best known for illustrating the classic book,Sexual Secrets, is making a comeback as if stepping forward in a time capsule to 2010, where her art continues to remain on the cutting edge.

I attended her dreamlike erotic art show in San Francisco last week, where the outrageously outspoken and often hilarious performance artist Annie Sprinkle hosted and San Francisco's queen of open sexuality, Carol Queen added to the exhibit with a collection of small framed collages depicting the taboo topic of sex and religion, heavily laced with Catholic imagery. 

Penny's collages were created long before the advent of Photoshop, and are painstakingly handcut from magazine photographs, where Hustler meets Better Homes and Gardens against a backdrop of celestial stars.

 Many of her images struggle to express the cosmic state of sexual union, where eros meets the spirit. There are few artists who have dared to explore this realm, even today, and Penny, for me, captures this indescribable essence of the erotic journey into the infinite space that we all hunger for and seldom visit.

Penny explained that expressing this relationship between the veils was once very taboo, but is today just starting to be understood and accepted. The time may be ripe for her work to receive a new wave of recognition, and Ecoartopia will be creating a new Erotic art collection in order to showcase her work and make it available in a "18 and up" mature section of the website.

We get an increasing number of requests for Erotic art and I'm finally succumbing to the demand and adding fine erotic artists and photographers to our collection, provided that their work is visionary, surreal, dreamlike and sacred.