Evan Baden

I had very mixed feelings about Evan Baden’s work.  His first series Illuminati I thought was incredible.  It had a great Idea behind it, and was executed beautifully.  However, I felt that the same cannot be said for the rest of his work.  His second body of work, Technically Intimate, I greatly disliked.  The biggest issue I had with the project was that after I heard him talking about it I felt that his impotence for the project was his own obsession with porn that he refused to admit to, a thought that others in attendance had as well.  This changed my view of the project from it being artistic to porn.  In addition to that I felt that the motifs in the images were quite basic and did not really push the idea beyond a very obvious level.  Finally I felt that in many ways his third project was just an extension of his second project, however I felt that it was even more exploitative than the second.