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Lora Reynolds is pleased to announce Grottos, an exhibition of new drawings by Simon Haas—the artist's first solo project with the gallery.

In the center of each of Simon Haas's newest graphite drawings on panel is a glory hole—offering a tight view at a carefully rendered cock, a peeping eyeball, a pair of solicitous fingers, a slightly parted mouth, or a deep, dark (empty?) void. This body of work pays tribute to Haas's queered forefathers and the persecution they endured, offers a tender counter-narrative to the heteronormative view of cruising culture as dirty and dangerous, …