Temptation: a desire to engage in short-term urges for enjoyment that threatens long-term goals. The notion of 'temptation' goes back to the biblical era, where the topic itself was mostly associated with sin and carried heavy consequences....cue Adam, Eve, and the Apple - and the infamous expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

Temptation has also been a topic of reference and inspiration throughout art history, from the Renaissance era in Botticelli's Temptation of Christ to early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch's Temptation of St. Anthony - where the imagery associated with temptation was often wildly crass, vulgar, and sexually explicit in nature - laced with demons and witches - and beyond.

Fortunately today, the concept of temptation has evolved into a more ecstatic nature, namely in the realm of a progressive queer society. For many, temptation now is a wondrous position, the urge nothing short of being a virtue, an aspiration even.

To be 'tempted' is to enjoy the wonders of seduction, allurement, enticement, glamour, attractiveness, charm. Now - more closely related to Bosch's famous work, The Garden of Earthly Delights. A sheer pleasure. Fetishized. A marvelous decoy.

With this more radical sentiment, the artists in the exhibition TEMPTATION agree.

Through their various perspectives, via the mediums of drawing, painting, collage and photo, a dialogue about temptation is established through queer existence from a romantic point of view- albeit through gay-cliches and transgenders - to a rather raw style of expression which explores the multi-faceted depths of desire and the soul.