John Currin on Art and Sex, Loving His Wife, and Fragile Masculinity | Fashion Neurosis

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John Currin is an American painter. Currin is widely recognised for his figurative oil paintings in which themes of sexual personae and historical painterly genres appear in surreal and sometimes disconcerting guises. Oscillating between a graphic sexuality and playful symbolism, Currin captures the tones and textures of everyday life with an acute sensitivity and a meticulous attention to detail. Currin has exhibited internationally at galleries including Sadie Coles, Dallas Contemporary, Museo Stefano Bardini in Florence and Gagosian in New York. His first solo show was at White Columns in 1989, and in 2003, a mid-career survey of his paintings travelled to the Serpentine Gallery, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. His most recent exhibition is Opening Credits at Sadie Coles HQ in London. In this episode of Fashion Neurosis, Bella Freud and John Currin discuss the importance of clothes in his paintings, Jarvis Cocker, and the nuance of Sean Connery vs Clint Eastwood. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:22 What are you wearing today? 00:01:23 Clothes in paintings 00:03:51 John’s childhood 00:09:58 Becoming an artist 00:12:45 Album covers 00:17:10 Childhood clothing 00:23:30 Masculinity 00:30:26 John’s father 00:34:20 How John met his wife Rachel Feinstein 00:39:00 Working with Jarvis Cocker 00:43:30 European v American painters 00:51:00 The death of John’s parents 00:59:00 Lucian Freud 01:05:00 Dressing Rachel Feinstein 01:11:00 If you fancy someone… 01:11:30 Painting women 01:22:02 Outro