Rick Castro

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Template:Short description Template:Multiple issues Template:Infobox artist Rick Castro (July 20, 1958) is an American photographer, motion picture director, stylist, curator and writer whose work focuses on BDSM, fetish, and desire.[1]

Early life

Castro began work as a fashion stylist and clothing designer. Over the years, he worked for as a stylist on fashion shoots and designed clothing for Marlene Stewart, Bette Midler, David Bowie, Herb Ritts,[2] the style agency Cloutier, George Hurrell, Interview magazine, GQ magazine, Vanity Fair magazine, Rolling Stone magazine, I-D magazine, Tina Turner and John Leguizamo. Castro was the designer for Michele Lamy's first menswear collection- Lamy Men, (1986-1989).[3][4]

Photographic career

In 1986, photographer Joel-Peter Witkin took him to purchase his first camera in Albuquerque. In 1988, at the age of 30, Castro became a freelance photographer, and his work appeared in the Los Angeles gay news magazines Frontiers,[5]Drummer[6] and the national gay news magazine, The Advocate.[7][8][9]

Throughout the years, Castro has had a number of exhibitions, including "Furotica: It Ain't Exactly Bambi" at the Track 16 gallery in Los Angeles, 2003.[10]

Castro's work is collected by the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, and the Tom of Finland Foundation.[11]

His 1994 short film of hustler interviews inspired Bruce LaBruce to film Hustler White with Tony Ward. Castro collaborated on the film as writer and co-director with LaBruce.[12] In 1998, he appeared in Sex/Life in L.A. Jochen Hick's adult documentary about the sex lives of the men who make L.A. adult movies.[13][14] Castro has directed a number of other short films and a documentary, Plushies & Furries, (2001) for MTV.[15]

Castro's first gallery opened at Les Duex Cafes, Hollywood, in 2002, and premiered the first Furry themed art show. In 2005 Castro founded Antebellum Gallery,[16] the only fetish art gallery in America, which he ran from 2005 to 2017.

Castro shot the F/W look book 2014 for designer Rick Owens using his 93-year-old father Al Castro as the featured model.[17]

During October, 2015, Rick Castro received an artist lifetime Achievement award from the Tom of Finland foundation.[18] Castro's photography was featured in Rick Owens: Subhuman, Inhuman, Superhuman at Triennale di Milano, December 2017- March 2018.[19] Castro was interviewed by his former boyfriend, designer Rick Owens for the May 2019 issue of Autre Magazine,[20] and featured in the historic first queer issue of Los Angeles Magazine, June 2019.[21] Castro is contributing photographer and writer for Another[22] and Anotherman Magazines UK.[23]

Castro created a virtual memorial entitled The Goddess Bunny Story,[24] for one of his early models, Sandie Crisp, AKA The Goddess Bunny,[25] who died of COVID-19 on 27, January, 2021.

Three of Castro's large scale images were featured in Illuminate LA’s Collective Memory Installation, Grand Park, Los Angeles, February/March 2023.[26]

Castro was one of the featured artists presenting a slide show of his photography and lecture for Queering The Lens at The Getty Center, kicking off Pride, June 2023.[27]

"Rick Castro Forever"[28][29] was presented at Hollywood Forever Cemetery at the historic columbarium, October 5th through November 30th, 2024. Castro's photography brought queer sensibility to Hollywood Forever.[30] Template:As of, "Columbarium Continuum: by Rick Castro", is an ongoing unique museum hosted at Hollywood Forever.[31][32]

Castro was part of a history group exhibition, Queer-ish presented at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery,[33] Scripps College, Claremont during November/December, 2023.[34]

During 2023 and 2024, Castro was featured in Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines.[35] This exhibition featured 1400 items from zine creators from 1970 to the present day.

In 2024, Castro's photography were featured in Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival at Halle am Berghain, Berlin,[36] and Vitam Picturarum (Life in Pictures) sponsored by WeHo Arts Festival, West Hollywood.[37]

Castro's first solo exhibition entitled Las Trece Vidas de Rick Castro, (The Thirteen Lives of Rick Castro) premiered in August 2024 at Galeria HGZ, Querétaro.[38]

Published books

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He has also self-published the following hand-made books:

  • Zack 1991
  • The Bondage Book #1. 1992.
  • The Bondage Book #2. 1993
  • The Bondage Book #3. 1994
  • The Bondage Book #4. 1996

Filmed works

  • 1992: Automolove
  • 1993: Fertile Latoyah Jackson Video Magazine #1[40]
  • 1994: 45 Minutes of Bondage
  • 1994: Fertile Latoyah Jackson Video Magazine#2 The Kinky Issue
  • 1994: Three Faces of Women
  • 1996: Hustler White
  • 1997: Another 45 Minutes of Bondage
  • 2001: Plushies and Furries
  • 2013 ANTEBELLUM2013
  • 2014: ANTEBELLUM2014
  • 2015: ANTEBELLUM2015
  • 2016: ANTEBELLUM2016
  • 2017: The Dark Waters of Hotel Cecil

External links

References

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