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Steve Locke
Steve Locke (born 1963) is an African American artist who explores figuration and perceptions of the male figure, and themes of masculinity and homosexuality through drawing, painting, sculpture and installation art. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, raised in Detroit, Michigan and is currently living and working in Boston, Massachusetts where he teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Education.
Locke spent the summer of 2002 at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. He received his MFA
worship of the phallus, the worship of the penis. If you’re going to make homosexual pornography, you’d better light the dick. So masturbation and oral sex are … the best way to photograph. You’re highlighting the penis—that’s what it’s about.”
The series begins with Locke working with a new heterosexual trucking partner (Steve Boyd) in "Kansas City Trucking Co.". A number of the film's porn scenes presented as sexual fantasies and dreams. Dialogue focuses on Locke consoling Boyd