Image

Cobi Moules

Untitled

Description

Maker

Cobi Moules (American, b. 1980 in Oakdale, CA)

Title

Untitled

Year

2010

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

graphite

Supports

Dimensions

77 x 56 cm (30 5/16 x 22 1/16 inches) (sheet)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Paula and Leonard Granoff Fund

Object Number

2010.113

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

On Paper
Gifts from Paula and Leonard Granoff
Oct 29, 2022 – Apr 16, 2023

Label copy

In this detailed self-portrait, Cobi Moules depicts himself wearing only socks and underwear in an otherwise empty space. The softness of his graphite marks lends a quiet intimacy that encourages close looking. Moules makes visible the vulnerabilities of his trans body, including his scars from top surgery, which can themselves be considered drawings on the body. Moules notes that his “relationship to drawing is much more intimate than it is with painting,” as he sees his drawings “in a much more soft and delicate way.”

–Grace Xiao, Mellon Summer Intern, 2022; Brown BA 2024

Related Publications

Related Publications

Pub_ID 1490 Manual_ Intimacy v_01.tif
  • Journal

Manual / Issue 16: Intimacy

RISD Museum’s Manual 16 Embraces Intimacy

Intimacy reveals something deeply human in us. We need each other on a practical level, which means having to trust strangers. It’s analogous to what I understand prayer requires and what writing poems requires: an openness to the unknown, coupled with trust, a belief that we won’t be hurt. It’s at once akin to and the same as devotion.
-Carl Phillips

The RISD Museum’s sixteenth issue of Manual touches on the bonds of intimacy and its many expressions. This issue complements the exhibition Any distance between us, co-curated by Stephen Truax and Dominic Molon, on view at the RISD Museum through March 13, 2022.

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Cobi Moules (American, b. 1980 in Oakdale, CA)
Untitled, 2010
Graphite on paper
77 x 56 cm (30 5/16 x 22 1/16 inches) (sheet)
Paula and Leonard Granoff Fund 2010.113

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