Mad Queen by Visioluxus.
Make sure to take a break from dancing to visit the visual art at Seduction. We will have a lounge area set up so you can enjoy these spooky, yet alluring, pieces of art. This year, we are pleased to have more sculpture and 3-D art in the showcase. Many of these artists are Seattle Erotic Art Festival alumni from previous year. Without Visioluxus and John Santerineross, would it really be a sexy Halloween show? All art is for sale, so bring your art collecting appetite!
Meet The Artists
Sculpture by L.A. Smith-Buxton.
Best known as a guitarist and composer, Damon Buxton is a multimedia artist, designer, and musician working to make the world a more gracious and beautiful place.
Jim Duvall began his career as an erotic photographer in the early days of the World Wide Web when he started janesguide.com with his former partner. He provided content for many online endeavors including bondage.com. His art has been shown at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival and many other art festivals around North America. He helped start The Betty Pages, an LGBT magazine, and was a writer and photographer for the magazine for 5 years. Currently, he works as a fine art photographer in Seattle, WA.
Michael Henry (aka Sinister Brain) is a photographer who constantly challenges his own views of art and sexuality.
Photo by Jim Duvall.
Born in the great city of Cleveland, Scott Kraynak is a Park Ranger and professional artist, who has been represented by numerous galleries throughout the country, and has had extensive exhibits of his work from coast to coast. Scotts work is in permanent collections throughout the world. Scott and his brother first book Animal Crackers, has been a big success and has gotten very favorable reviews. Unconquerable Desires, his first photography book, is now complete and is also garnering praise. This past year his work has appeared in five other books, including the newly released Truck Farm, based on King Corn director Ian Cheney’s film of the same name, the graphic novels 27, Connections, and two international collections of artists’ works. He is currently working on concert posters for bands, a series of bird drawings, as well as new pieces sure to upset a large number of certain people.
Randy Lagana: “I was born in 1949 in Norwalk, CT and as an adult, my life has been consumed by painting and photography. I am mostly self-taught and have worked as a drug counselor, police officer, and parole officer. I find people and their struggles quite fascinating and intriguing as subject matter.”
Assaf Ziv, Artist, Photographer, Creative Director, Fashion Stylemaker.
Photo by Visioluxus.
Dale Lerner: “In my youth I was a trucker, hauling raw clay from quarries in the Cypress Hills, Alberta to local brick and clay processing factories. I had no idea that following my post-secondary education I would again have a connection with clay and its transformation into the sculptures you see before you.”
Visioluxus is Elisa Lazo de Valdez of Portland, Oregon. She has over a decade of experience producing photography for the book publishing market, as well as editorial articles, fashion collections, and gallery exhibitions. Elisa sees photography as a wonderful excuse to play dress up, and the perfect tool for expressing herself. Her work is often described as dream-like, surreal and haunting, with an emphasis on the dark and spooky.
John Osgood is a contemporary painter, muralist, illustrator, and curator who grew up in Edmonds, Washington. He graduated with a BA from Washington State University with a minor in Fine Arts. Osgood has created murals all over the Puget Sound area. He currently resides in California.
Photo by John Santerineross.
John Santerineross is an American photographer with a background in ceramics and painting. He is considered to be a “neo-symbolist”, an artist that continues or reinterprets the 19th century art movement Symbolism. Like its predecessor, neo-symbolism focuses on the spiritual, the subconscious, and dreams. Santerineross’ unique style and content has inspired an entire new generation of artists; his complex aesthetic is derived from a combination of his exposure to Catholicism and Santeria and by his fascination with Greek mythology, world religions and iconography.
L.A. Smith-Buxton is an artist and writer living in the Pacific Northwest. Working in a variety of media from printmaking to collage and assemblage, Smith-Buxton explores subject matter that ranges from whimsical figures to abstract meditations, playing with lines, patterns, and surface structures.
Tickets On Sale Now
A general admission tickets gives you access to this darkly alluring showcase, among all the other Seduction offerings:
- Performances all night on stage and off
- GoGo & Pole Dancers to inspire your dancing
- Photo booth to capture your fantastically costumed visage
- DJs all night long
- Entry into Costume Contest
- Suspended Animation
- Sensation City to try out a few kinky activities
- Bars with Seduction’s Signature Cocktails