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Sue Long, The Penis Project
The penes are beautiful and whimsical. They come in a variety of shapes and arousal levels and personalities, with titles like "Spanky" and "His Highness" and "Thrill Drill". Some wear capes, some walk around on legs.
Long's artist statement disappointed me. In film and the media, women’s bodies are exposed, exploited and paraded around like cattle. It makes me angry. I have to ask: Why are women’s bodies exposed and not men’s? My intent with this exhibit is to try to equalize the experience of what women are subjected to on a regular basis. So the idea was to subject men's bodies to a spiteful exploitation in order to even the score? In graduate school it was a truism that the artist's stated intention was irrelevant, at best one interpretation among many. I take some comfort in that idea here. If the artist really wanted to make me feel degraded by seeing penises paraded around, and thus ashamed at my enjoyment of images of women's bodies, then she failed completely. And yet I love the art.
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Michigan artist Sue Long has created 100 painted ceramic penis sculptures. Her exhibition "The Penis Project" is on display at the Creole Gallery in Lansing. 
