For his latest project with Wallpaper* (W* 188), Pierson lingered behind the camera to shoot the former home and studio of Tom of Finland, the homoerotic artist who inspired a generation of contemporary pop artists – Pierson included. Photography: Jack Pierson

"For an artist whose work can be brash, explicit and loaded with pathos, Jack Pierson doesn’t seem to want your attention. For his latest project with Wallpaper*, he lingered behind the camera to shoot the former home and studio of Tom of Finland, the homoerotic artist who inspired a generation of contemporary pop artists – Pierson included. The homage to black leather and shiny pecs – incongruous against the sunny Echo Park, LA, backdrop – is the centrefold of our November 2014 issue.

"In what is undoubtedly his month to shine, Pierson is also headlining a show at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris. Yet rather than hold the public's focus, he's decided to curate a group exhibition focusing on a range of artists - young, old, even dead - other than himself."

— Wallpaper* magazine

More articles on TOM's Blog for Jack Pierson's Tomorrow's Man and Wallpaper* magazine.

Tom OF Finland Stamps Featured On
Real Time With Bill Maher

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Tom Of Finland Curated By
Peter Marino

TOM OF FINLAND (Touko Laaksonen, Finnish, 1920 – 1991),
Untitled, mixed media on paper, © 1979 Tom of Finland Foundation

New York architect Peter Marino selects rarely seen images from Tom of Finland's own archive, and traces the iconic artist's influence on artist Robert Mapplethorpe and himself. There's an eight page portfolio in the Fall / Winter 2014 issue of Document magazine.

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Anti-Gay Russian Lawmaker Milonov Protests
Homoerotic Finnish Stamps

St. Petersburg lawmaker Vitaly Milonov has appealed to Russian Post to prevent an influx of postage stamps depicting homoerotic scenes by a Finnish artist that the outspoken deputy says violate Russia’s anti-gay-propaganda law.

Milonov has demanded that all letters and parcels featuring the stamps — a series released in September by Finland’s postal service to commemorate the artist Touko Laaksonen — be returned to sender and not allowed to enter Russia. Laaksonen, also known as Tom of Finland, was renowned for his homoerotic fetish art.

The stamps that have so enraged Milonov feature several provocative images, such as a man’s bare buttocks with another man’s face visible between his legs, and a naked man sitting between another man’s legs.

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Finland's national public broadcasting company, Yle, gave it a test!
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Photos by LOYALTY PORRINO

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Photo by ALEX LA CRUZ

See more of Alex's photos of the Tom of Finland Art Fair on GayLetter.

Photo by LOYALTY PORRINO

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