BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Tom of Finland Foundation - ECPv6.18.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Tom of Finland Foundation REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260319T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260319T190000 DTSTAMP:20260315T222624Z CREATED:20260313T205530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260315T222624Z UID:84286-1773939600-1773946800@legacy.tomoffinland.org SUMMARY:"FXLK PLAY" Exhibition Closing DESCRIPTION:Bid farewell to FXLK PLAY with us at our final reception! After a monumental month celebrating our artists-in-residence past and present\, it’s time to say goodbye to this historic exhibition. Join us once again for a screening of FXLK PLAY highlights; words from the Exhibition Manager\, Catalina Bulgach; and a special appearance by former Artist-in-Residence Daphne von Rey! \nDaphne von Rey is a Los Angeles based performance artist who primarily uses her body to depict her experience as a HIV+ transgender individual.\n“Tom of Finland Foundation means a lot to me especially as that’s where I began my transition and journey as both a performance and visual artist.” –Daphne von Rey \n \n \nThere is no smoking or alcohol permitted on park property. There are two free parking lots in Plummer Park. The south lot (off of Santa Monica/Martel) enforces a 3-hour parking limit. There are no parking limits in the north lot (Fountain/Vista). URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/fxlk-play-exhibition-closing/ LOCATION:Plummer Park Long Hall\, 1200 North Vista Street\, West Hollywood\, CA\, 90046\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence,Foundation Event,Gallery Show ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/FXLK-PLAY_closing_500.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260221T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260221T160000 DTSTAMP:20260224T052453Z CREATED:20260214T211018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T052453Z UID:83842-1771682400-1771689600@legacy.tomoffinland.org SUMMARY:The Art of Arousal DESCRIPTION:Join moderator Richard Meyer and panelists\, Dian Hanson\, John Morace\, and Artist-in-Resident alumnus Fausto as they discuss the many ways art can pique our interest. \nThis panel addresses the role of arousal in the making and viewing of art. What turns us on in the museum\, gallery\, or the art section of a bookstore that we don’t admit to others? How can we acknowledge sexual pleasure in the presence of art without shame or defensiveness? How does art arouse us in ways that go beyond the strictly sexual? \nThis talk is part of FXLK PLAY: Artists-in-Mischief\, Devotion\, and Mythmaking on view in West Hollywood’s Plumer Park\, 19th February–19th March 2026\, Thursday through Sunday Noon-5p \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n© 2025 THE JOHN BURTON HARTER FOUNDATION\n\nRichard Meyer is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History and Director of American Studies at Stanford University\, where he teaches courses in modern and contemporary art\, censorship\, and gender and sexuality studies. He is the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art and co-author\, with Catherine Lord\, of Art and Queer Culture. His most recent book\, Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered is a study of a Brooklyn tailor and slipper-maker who\, against all odds\, achieved international recognition as a self-taught painter in the 1940s. \nDian Hanson has been TASCHEN Publishing’s “sexy book” editor and writer since 2001. While with TASCHEN\, she’s produced Tom of Finland: The Comic Collection\, The Complete Kake Comics\, and Tom of Finland XXL; Quaintance; Bob’s World and AMG 1000 Model Directory on the work of Physique Pictorial’s Bob Mizer; My Buddy\, amateur nudes by and of WWII military men; the ever popular Big Penis Book; and the only book on Ren Hang\, before his death at age 29. Pre-TASCHEN\, Dian produced sex magazines for Mavety Media for 15 years\, working on JUGGS and Leg Show. Her experience at Mavety taught her that arousal is unique to each individual\, often unpredictable\, and that more JUGGS subscribers than one would ever imagine were also reading Inches. \nJohn Morace is an art collector with over 40 years of experience. During that time\, he advised collectors on building collections and helped revive interest in several important artists’ estates\, including Tom of Finland\, John Boscovich and Nam June Paik. Currently\, John is assisting ZIAN Gallery\, in Hangzhou\, China to develop their strategy and plan. He’s enjoyed every day he has spent collecting\, speaking\, and advising about art collection. There is always something interesting to see\, and even if there isn’t\, there is plenty to think about\, and too many ways to spend money. \nFausto was born in 1972 in East Germany\, Berlin. He studied medicine\, specializing in plastic and reconstructive surgery. He has worked and trained in Berlin\, Zurich\, Vogtareuth (Bavaria) and Tuebingen. In 2009 he changed from hospital work to administration of German national health care. At the same time\, he started an artistic career as a painter and has participated in several group shows in Germany. He was an artist–in-residence at Tom of Finland Foundation September–December 2024. \n\nNote: TOM House is located on a residential street in Echo Park—we strongly encourage ride-share or public transit. URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/the-art-of-arousal/ LOCATION:TOM House\, 1421 Laveta Terrace\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90026\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence,Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/FXLK-PLAY_Art-of-Arousel_500_V2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260205 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260214 DTSTAMP:20260207T194224Z CREATED:20260111T133859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260207T194224Z UID:83461-1770260400-1770951599@legacy.tomoffinland.org SUMMARY:M BLACK "Single Stall Sex" DESCRIPTION:OPENING RECEPTION: 5th February\, 6-9p\nQ&A following screening at 7p. \n \nhttps://www.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/7Nijcn5Hl5DobYg.mp4\n \n  \nIntroducing Single Stall Sex\, a solo exhibition by m black. \nm black’s newest body of work wrestles with the highly charged social-sexual history of the public bathroom and the relational possibilities that emerge in the collapse of public/private and self/other. \nON VIEW \nWorks \n \n  \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPrinted matter \nPRICE LIST \nRough cut of “PISS FILM”\na 16mm erotic short hand-developed in urine. \n \n\nOPENING \n \n  \nm black \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nOn view by appointment.\nCall +1 213 250 1685 with inquiries. \nThis work was made possible with support from the Canada Council for the Arts. \n \n\nMeet Artist-in-Residence M Black\n M Black is a multidisciplinary artist\, writer\, and filmmaker based in Atlantic Canada. They hold a BFA in Expanded Media from NSCAD University\, where they presented their first solo exhibition Catacombs for the Living at the university’s Anna Leonowens Gallery in 2024. Their work has appeared in Cult Magazine (NYC)\, Cephalophore (NYC)\, Der Grief (Germany)\,... View Article URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/m-black-single-stall-sex-opening-reception/ LOCATION:TOM House\, 1421 Laveta Terrace\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90026\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/m-black_v3_500.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260223 DTSTAMP:20260131T011733Z CREATED:20260111T134010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260131T011733Z UID:83398-1769655600-1771729199@legacy.tomoffinland.org SUMMARY:YINON AVIOR PHILIPSOHN "Torn Suspense" DESCRIPTION:OPENING RECEPTION: 29th January\, 6-9p \nIntroducing Torn Suspense by Yinon Avior Philipsohn. The work originates from images sourced from BDSM pornographic magazines. Selected fragments are scanned\, enlarged\, and reprinted in layered compositions that expose the mechanics of image production—grain\, misregistration\, and surface texture—reducing the photographic body to a physical surface. \nEach image undergoes a sequence of transformations: a model’s body is photographed\, printed\, circulated\, reclaimed\, and reassembled as a quilted object. Through this process\, the work interrogates how much alteration a body or image can endure\, and how many layers\, fragments\, and stitches it can hold before the surface begins to tear. \nProtective coatings preserve the image\, while stitched perforations invite penetration\, suspending the work in a state of tension between preservation and breakdown. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n  \n \nhttps://www.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SnapInsta.to_AQNpriUcSeziwvUXSOwohw-oicsgwe3GmO0yEfOQklkEDbphm2qfOtmwXr38eQ8-KLNBsCEUjnl_SFyK25JhirKAsOUdAoVi6Z-wY4Y.mp4\n \n  \nPRICE LIST \n  \nIn contrast to the classic process of expose–print–display\, my photographic work in this project is interlocked with physical presence and the manual labour of sewing\, which transforms the photographic surface from a flat image into a tactile body.\nEach photographic quilt is a single body\, both material and metaphorical\, with a unique texture. Beyond the physical volume added through sewing\, the glossy finish of the plastic-coated prints produces reflections that interrupt a stable viewpoint. The spectator cannot experience the work as a whole from a single position. The work consists of several photographs layered as broken fragments on top of each other and sewn together\, forcing the spectator to follow a deliberately constructed\, unwritten choreography. Spatial placement and light function as obstacles rather than neutral conditions\, leading to a gradual reveal of the images.\nSince 2018\, I have developed and worked with photographic quilting using hand-sewn plastic-coated Inkjet prints. From 2018 to 2025\, the printed images in this process were based on photographs I shot myself. In this series\, however\, the source material shifts to BDSM pornographic magazines that did not make it to Tom of Finland Foundation’s library due to their condition.\nSelected fragments are scanned\, enlarged\, and reprinted in multiple layers\, exposing the mechanics of their own production\, such as grain\, misregistration\, and surface texture\, while bodies lose coherence and become material.\nThrough this process\, a model’s body is photographed\, printed in a magazine\, reused as source material\, and reassembled as a quilted object. The work asks how much a human body can endure\, how much damage an image can absorb\, and how many stitches a print can take before it tears apart. —Yinon Avior Philipsohn \n\n\nOPENING NIGHT \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nOn view by appointment.\nCall +1 213 250 1685 with inquiries. \n\nMeet Artist-in-Residence Yinon Avior Philipsohn\n [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] Yinon Avior Philipsohn was born in 1991. In 2011\, he began his academic studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the tutelage of Prof. Marcel Odenbach\, later continuing at the Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts\, where he graduated with a dual degree in art and education (BFA.Ed). In 2019\, Philipsohn graduated from the Royal Academy... View Article URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/yinon-avior-philipsohn-torn-suspense-opening-reception/ LOCATION:TOM House\, 1421 Laveta Terrace\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90026\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Yinon_Invite_v3_500.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121 DTSTAMP:20251222T055455Z CREATED:20251213T175524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251222T055455Z UID:82713-1766113200-1768877999@legacy.tomoffinland.org SUMMARY:"Muses\, Lovers\, and In-Between" at LÜSTERN in Downtown Los Angeles DESCRIPTION:Muses\, Lovers\, and In-Between by Ryan Davis is a visual study of intimacy and vulnerability\, exploring gender codes and kink through the lens of fashion. The work moves between masculinity and femininity\, hardness and softness—finding strength in vulnerability. It does not seek to subvert masculinity in disgrace\, but to honor its tenderness\, creating space for Queer POC bodies who hold both with unapologetic grace. \nThis visual diary traces the shifting relationship between lover and muse through the lens of voyeur and exhibitionist\, revealing moments of tension\, submission\, and desire. \n \nOPENING 19th December | 6-8p \n \nhttps://www.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/RyansOpening.mp4\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nON VIEW\nTuesday-Wednesday 2-10p\nThursday 3-11p\nFriday-Saturday noon-midnight\nSunday 2-10p \n\n  \n \nMust-See Art Events in L.A\nMuses\, Lovers\, and In-Between\nA visual study of intimacy and vulnerability\, exploring gender codes and kink through the lens of fashion. \n\n \n\nMeet Artist-in-Residence Ryan Davis\n Ryan Davis is a visual artist\, fashion stylist and founding editor of London-based IDOL magazine. As Editor-at-Large\, he curated covers\, editorials\, and features spanning fashion\, art\, and culture\, which helped shape the publication’s distinct voice. His aesthetic—what he calls “fashion erotica”—uses kink-inspired elements like bondage\, leather\, and hosiery to subvert gender norms and celebrate the... View Article URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/join-us-for-muses-lovers-and-in-between-at-lustern-in-downtown-los-angeles/ LOCATION:Lüstern\, 359 South Broadway\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90013\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ryan_DTLA_500-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251212 DTSTAMP:20251126T234756Z CREATED:20251028T201124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251126T234756Z UID:82054-1762398000-1765421999@legacy.tomoffinland.org SUMMARY:RYAN DAVIS "Muses\, Lovers\, & In-Between" DESCRIPTION:Muses\, Lovers\, and In-Between by Ryan Davis is a visual study of intimacy and vulnerability\, exploring gender codes and kink through the lens of fashion. The work moves between masculinity and femininity\, hardness and softness—finding strength in vulnerability. It does not seek to subvert masculinity in disgrace\, but to honor its tenderness\, creating space for Queer POC bodies who hold both with unapologetic grace. \nThis visual diary traces the shifting relationship between lover and muse through the lens of voyeur and exhibitionist\, revealing moments of tension\, submission\, and desire. The exhibition debuts the ongoing series Ethereal Intimacy. \nNorman in Hose\, 2025\, Instant photography \n  \n \n  \n \n \n  \nOPENING RECEPTION 6TH NOVEMBER | 6-9p \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nOn view through 22nd November. Please call +1 213 250 1685 to make an appointment. \nCHECKLIST \n \nhttps://www.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SnapInsta.to_AQPNFap9gDHr3SZWsL1Yi7-HbrrE6PiWnAYZG2ytWPYufCoZZyBkSPiS2ga8weDbKJbe-4pImBvzwZmaDim5B_VhNWtBI6dgDUuzx_o.mp4\n \nSponsored by XēBA BOTáNICA and Condesa Gin\n\nTOM HOUSE IS ON A RESIDENTIAL STREET IN ECHO PARK SO WE STRONGY ENCOURGE RIDE-SHARE OR PUBLIC TRANSPORT.\n\nMeet Artist-in-Residence Ryan Davis\n Ryan Davis is a visual artist\, fashion stylist and founding editor of London-based IDOL magazine. As Editor-at-Large\, he curated covers\, editorials\, and features spanning fashion\, art\, and culture\, which helped shape the publication’s distinct voice. His aesthetic—what he calls “fashion erotica”—uses kink-inspired elements like bondage\, leather\, and hosiery to subvert gender norms and celebrate the... View Article URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/ryan-davis-muses-lovers-and-in-between/ LOCATION:TOM House\, 1421 Laveta Terrace\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90026\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Ryan-Davis_Nov6_500.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250821 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250902 DTSTAMP:20250828T210321Z CREATED:20250814T203255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T210321Z UID:80971-1755745200-1756695599@legacy.tomoffinland.org SUMMARY:ŁUKASZ LEJA "Luke of Poland" DESCRIPTION:ON VIEW BY APPOINTMENT +1 213 250 1685\nCLOSING RECEPTION 31st August 4–7p \n\nThe final exhibition by our Artist-in-Residence Łukasz Leja.\nLuke of Poland takes inspiration from Queer artists of the past who created erotic works under pseudonyms—often an Anglicized first name paired with the place they were from or worked in—to protect themselves from public scrutiny\, exposure\, and legal persecution. “Luke” is Łukasz’s own alter ego\, a persona through which he’s free to explore kinks and ideas that today’s art climate often suppresses\, disregards\, and censors.  \n \nThe exhibition features ten new oil-on-canvas paintings\,\nphotography prints created with Richie Lee Davis\, \na zine-based photo project\, \nand originals and reproductions of earlier works. \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nDuring his 3-month residency\, Łukasz has lived in TOM House and had access to resources\, including the world’s largest library and archive of erotic art. Founded in the 1984 \, the Foundation was established to promote\, preserve\, and celebrate erotic art. Over 40 years\, it has expanded to include international erotic art festivals and the Artist-in-Residence Program. \nThe show’s title pays homage to a lineage of artists—like Tom of Finland\, Bruce of Los Angeles\, and Martin of Holland\, among countless others—who\, in eras when erotic art was criminalized\, created groundbreaking work under pseudonyms. By acknowledging the rich history of erotic arts\, Luke of Poland explores Łukasz’s personal ideas\, memories\, and kink. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nINSTALLATION PHOTOS BY \nFERNANDO GUERRERO\n \nAVAILABLE WORKS \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTOM HOUSE IS ON A RESIDENTIAL STREET IN ECHO PARK SO WE STRONGY ENCOURGE RIDE-SHARE OR PUBLIC TRANSPORT.\n\n\n\n\nWelcome Łukasz!\n Welcome to the Artist-in-Residence program Łukasz Leja! We are so excited to see what you make during your stay at TOM House. He is a Polish fine artist based in New York City. Drawing from his own experiences in the city\, he creates oil paintings depicting Queer love\, exploring uniquely geometric figurations of the human... View Article\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n  URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/luke-of-poland/ LOCATION:TOM House\, 1421 Laveta Terrace\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90026\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/3_updated-500.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250731 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250813 DTSTAMP:20250802T141430Z CREATED:20250710T002548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250802T141430Z UID:80354-1753930800-1754967599@legacy.tomoffinland.org SUMMARY:ÉAMON McGIVERN "Legible to Desire" DESCRIPTION:ON VIEW THROUGH 11th August\nBY APPOINTMENT ONLY: +1 213 250 1685\nEAMON McGIVERN Raoul Bejerano\, 2025 \n\n\nTom of Finland Foundation is proud to present Legible to Desire\, a new exhibition of paintings by current artist-in-residence Éamon McGivern. The series of oil paintings is based on original and archival photographs made and discovered at TOM House during his residency. \n\n\nIf you are familiar with Tom of Finland’s work you may recognize some of the faces within the paintings in this show. About half of the paintings are based on photographs of Tom’s friends and lovers here in L.A. I am fascinated by the vast gap between the photographic images of these men and the fantasies they became through Tom’s drawings. By posing for Tom’s camera\, they offered themselves up to his erotic imagination where everyone is youthful\, impossibly fit\, well endowed\, masculine\, virile and versatile. The homogeneity of his figures creates a kind of egalitarianism where violent societal power structures collapse into a carnivalesque orgy. \nIt’s easy to see the appeal of this fantasy world\, when in reality we must navigate the collective erotic imagination informed by class\, race\, age\, body type and gender presentation. Whether the scripts associated with the roles we inhabit align with or are antagonistic to our desires\, we all contend with how our bodies are perceived. These paintings are an exploration of how we as Queer men grapple with the archetypes available to us in order to make ourselves legible to the desires of other men. \n\n–Éamon McGivern \nAVAILABLE WORKS \n \nOPENING RECEPTION: Thursday 31st July from 6-9p\nJoin us on this special evening celebrating his accomplishments. \nThe program will include an artists talk with McGivern and former Artist-in-Residence Carta Monir as well as performances by Peter Kalisch\, Emily Lucid and Cade Moga.  \n\n\n\nMeet Éamon McGivern\, Artist-in-Residence\nWelcome Éamon! Éamon McGivern is a painter from San Francisco who over the last seven years has painted portraits of Bay Area Queers\, punks and poets. More recently\, he has been delving into the archives of twentieth century LGBTQ+ history\, picking up strands from holes in the historical narratives in an attempt to darn the tears between the past and present wrought by political oppression\, transphobia and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. McGivern’s work feeds into the sorrow borne from the absence… URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/eamon-mcgivern-legible-to-desire/ LOCATION:TOM House\, 1421 Laveta Terrace\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90026\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence,Foundation Event,Gallery Show ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/legible-to-desire-500.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250707 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250902 DTSTAMP:20250712T033944Z CREATED:20250707T191410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250712T033944Z UID:80302-1751857200-1756695599@legacy.tomoffinland.org SUMMARY:ÉAMON McGIVERN "A/History" DESCRIPTION:Rooted in a philosophy of portraiture that embraces empathy as a creative act\, A/History presents new paintings by San Francisco-based artist Éamon McGivern. Drawing on personal memory and research in the GLBT Historical Society archives\, McGivern offers portraits that reflect on the lives and legacies of Queer and Trans elders whose absence continues to shape contemporary life. Through painterly interpretation and archival reference\, the exhibition invites reflection on memory\, representation\, and the multifaceted nature of human identity. \nSelf Portrait at Ocean Beach\, 2022\, Oil on canvas\, 26” x 20” \nRESERVE \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nMcGivern is currently participating in our ToFF Artist-in-Residence Program and preparing for his upcoming show at TOM House. \n\nMeet Éamon McGivern\, Artist-in-Residence\n Welcome Éamon! Éamon McGivern is a painter from San Francisco who over the last seven years has painted portraits of Bay Area Queers\, punks and poets. More recently\, he has been delving into the archives of twentieth century LGBTQ+ history\, picking up strands from holes in the historical narratives in an attempt to darn the... View Article URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/eamon-mcgivern-a-history/ LOCATION:GLBT Historical Society Museum\, 4127 18th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence,Museum Show ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1_aHistory_500.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250427 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250507 DTSTAMP:20250428T174537Z CREATED:20250422T233833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250428T174537Z UID:78874-1745722800-1746500399@legacy.tomoffinland.org SUMMARY:"Hysteria" DESCRIPTION:ON VIEW AT OFF SUNSET: Sunday 27th April from 12-7p\nON VIEW AT TOM HOUSE: Monday 28th April-5th May (by appointment: +1 213 250 1685)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n JOHN BROOKS\n \n \n \n \n \n CHRISTIAN ROGERS\n \n \n \n \n \n WILLIAM E. JONES\n \n \n \n \n \n WILLIAM E. JONES\n \n \n \n \n \n MATT LIFSON\n \n \n \n \n \n CHRISTIAN ROGERS\n \n \n \n \n \n MATT LIFSON\n \n \n\nFormer Tom of Finland Foundation Artist-in-Residence Carlos Enfedaque will participate in this year’s Off Sunset Festival with an exhibition of artwork he has curated titled Hysteria. \nHysteria is a group show exploring myriad of ways Queer artists use vivid color in painting. These artists’ use of fluorescent pigments and neon colors are a phenomenon perhaps inspired by our globalized and hyper connected world. \n\nIs the act of painting with these hyper saturated colors an attempt to raise our voices? To be louder / to make ourselves be heard in a society in which we have been so used to being silent? \nIs it a symptom of our velvet rage? \nIs it euphoria? So high on something that we see colors typically unseen? \nAre they celebratory or in contrast\, is it hysteric turmoil? \nHysteria sets out to investigate this impulse in Queer contemporary art. \nFar from trying to provide a straight answer to all these questions\, Hysteria invites the viewer into this universe to experience it for themselves. \n  \n\nView Hysteria at Off Sunset on Sunday 27th April from 12-7p. The exhibition will continue at TOM House through 5th May. \nArtists include Pol Anglada\, Joseph André Michel François Beausoleil\, Tristor Blue\, Paul Booth\, John Brooks\, Carlos Enfedaque\, William E. Jones\, Matt Lifson\, Oat Montien\, Christian Rogers\, and Natalie Strait. \n  URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/hysteria-curated-by-carlos-enfedaque/ LOCATION:TOM House\, 1421 Laveta Terrace\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90026\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence,Foundation Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/25_04_27-05_05_Hysteria_500_sq-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250417T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T170000 DTSTAMP:20250709T210014Z CREATED:20250422T235354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250709T210014Z UID:78885-1744876800-1745859600@legacy.tomoffinland.org SUMMARY:RACHEL BRITTON and ORPHEUS "Underworld" DESCRIPTION:OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday 17th April from 6-9p\nON VIEW THROUGH 28th APRIL BY APPOINTMENT: +1 213 250 1685\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n RACHEL BRITTON Dysmorphia No. 26\, 2023\, Archival pigment print\n \n \n \n \n \n RACHEL BRITTON Dysmorphia No. 25\, 2025\, Archival pigment print\n \n \n \n \n \n RACHEL BRITTON Dysmorphia No. 9\, 2020\, Archival pigment print\n \n \n \n \n \n ORPHEUS Back Bedroom VII\, 2025\, Oil on paper\, 41cm x 33cm\n \n \n \n \n \n ORPHEUS Back Bedroom VIII\, 2025\, Oil on paper\, 33cm x 41cm\n \n \n \n\nTom of Finland Foundation is proud to present Underworld\, a new exhibition of work by current Artists-in-Residence Rachel Britton and Orpheus. \nWhile their artistic practices are vastly different—Britton making vibrant digital photographic collages and Orpheus creating traditional oil paintings in the style of European painters of the seventeenth century—they both share a fascination with the dark and visceral underbelly of contemporary Queer sexuality. \nBritton’s composite photographs explore the tension between desire and repulsion. Britton’s photographs are meticulously handcrafted\, countering the increasing ubiquity of A.I. imagery. She begins by photographing the human body for texture then stitches the images together layer by layer in Adobe Photoshop to create grotesque yet compelling visions that blur the boundary between fantasy and reality. \nOrpheus’ oil paintings capture flashbulb moments of intense sexual desire evoking anonymous encounters in sex clubs\, faceless apartments and hotel rooms familiar to many Gay men. However\, his techniques\, materials\, compositions and moods draw from art history\, recalling baroque painters such as Caravaggio and Rembrandt in a bold celebration of raw\, Gay sexuality. \nThe evening will also see Orpheus launch his new book Underworlds\, while attendees enjoy music by Mellow Code. URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/rachel-britton-orpheus-underworld/ LOCATION:TOM House\, 1421 Laveta Terrace\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90026\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence,Foundation Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/25_04_17_RACHEL-BRITTON-AND-ORPHEUS_Underworld_500_sq.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250411 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250616 DTSTAMP:20250709T210055Z CREATED:20250422T232855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250709T210055Z UID:78868-1744340400-1749956399@legacy.tomoffinland.org SUMMARY:SUNG HWAN BOBBY PARK "BTM 아 Ahhh" DESCRIPTION:VIEWING HOURS: Tuesday-Sunday from 11a-5p\nA billboard-scale portrait fills the gallery’s front window space: the work depicts artist Sung Hwan Bobby Park\, wearing a 방탄모 bangtanmo\, a ceramic military helmet secured with a satin ribbon. Bathed in hot golden projected light\, the artist is both subject and agent of this photographic image\, claiming the space in front of the camera\, and in front of passersby\, as a site of self-sovereignty and intention. In the work’s installation at Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery\, the background colour exceeds the edges of the photographic image to include the adjacent wall and gallery’s main entranceway in its entirety. The viewer is first visually met with the resonant colour surrounding the image\, and then immersed in it on entering the space. \nSung Hwan works primarily in ceramics\, and with reference to his experiences as a Queer person undergoing military service as a marine in South Korea between 2012-2014\, and subsequent research related to the military. The BTM series\, within which the ceramic helmet is centred\, exists as an explicit assertion of Queer subjectivity. In the artist’s words\, this is a statement of Queer magnificence\, standing in direct response to the harm caused to Park and his peers forced to hide their identities by the armed forces. Specifically\, in 2017\, Sung Hwan learned that the Korean military had for a period created fake dating profiles as means to entrap soldiers who were Queer\, with those caught being investigated and outed to their units. \nBTM 아 Ahhh\, 2023\, which sits within an ongoing series of stills of the helmets as worn by the artist\, features a helmet with a gaping mouth and teeth adorned with pearls suspended on silver chains. The protruding tongue is pierced with a silver rod; green hair-extensions tassel or fall as braids from the crown of the gloss-glazed helmet with BTM insignia\, and a useable candle holder. The artist wears a necklace of PrEP pills\, HIV prevention medication\, and a side-eyed look that is shaded by the helmet’s low brim. The figure is counterturned\, subtly echoing homoerotic masculine representations within western classical history. \nSince 2018 the helmet has had a presence in Sung Hwan’s practice\, with individual works accumulating to become a formal language in which the body – the body of clay\, the human body – is foregrounded as protagonist. In this sense the work might be considered as form of Queer self-portrait\, commissioned by the ceramicist-artist Sung Hwan\, who works in collaboration with professional photographer Josh Harvey to achieve the image. Another work made in collaboration\, BTM 조상초상화 Ancestor Portrait\, 2023\, alludes to Bunmu\, official portraits of loyal military men in the Joseon era (late fourteenth to early twentieth century). In this work Sung Hwan wears a custom 단령 danryung jacket\, made by collaborator Steven Junil Park\, with 흉배 hyungbae or embroidered square depicting a flying unicorn distributing PrEP pills. Both BTM 조상초상화 Ancestor Portrait and BTM 아 Ahhh synthesise recognisable art-historical tropes with styling choices and narratives specific to this artist and his contemporary context. \nWe might read these portraits as an implicit queering of the dynamic art critic John Berger suggests is definitive of historical portraiture in the Western tradition: “On the one hand there is the individualism of the artist the thinker\, the patron\, the owner: on the other hand\, the person who is the object of their activities – the woman – treated as a thing or an abstraction” (Ways of Seeing\, 1972) Sung Hwan’s ‘self-portrait’ might in fact be read is a hybrid form within which subject-object relations are fluid\, and self-perception is validated. The viewer is not assumed to be a heterosexual male; the viewed is not assumed to be in state of submission to the vison of the photographer. New formal and political relationships become apparent: between forms of bodily adornment and self-protection\, between same-sex desire and its multiple art historical lineages\, between representations of queer joy and other modes of insubordination. \n— \n박성환 Sung Hwan Bobby Park was born in 청주시 Cheongju\, South Korea\, and moved to Aotearoa in 2000. He is based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Since completing study in product design at Auckland University of Technology in 2016\, Sung Hwan’s practice has expanded to include ceramic sculpture\, installation\, performance\, drawing\, and photography. In 2023 he was a recipient of a Springboard award from the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi. Recent exhibitions include BTM: Assembly at Objectspace\, BTM: Season at Season\, and Aotearoa Contemporary at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (all Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland\, 2024). Sung Hwan was recently Artist-in-Residence at Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles. URL:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/eventscal/sung-hwan-bobby-park-btm-%ec%95%84-ahhh/ LOCATION:Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery\, Gate 3\, Kelburn Parade\, Wellington\, 6012\, New Zealand CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence,Gallery Show ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://legacy.tomoffinland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/8bdbddd1948548a91d0f16ebc081cb44ed655903-2880x1966_1080.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR