{"product_id":"discipline","title":"Discipline","description":"\u003cp\u003eIan Stone's meticulously rendered still life and figurative paintings explore queer memory and camp through carefully arranged collections of ornamental and personal objects, with the body positioned as a site through which identity is formed, expressed, and remembered. Informed by traditions of 19th-century Realism and Western art history, his oil paintings and drawings are rich in detail and cultural awareness, reflecting how femininity, longing, and performance shape contemporary queer life. Paintings are unframed, while works on paper are framed under glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist's description:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis painting presents the male body as a site where histories of masculinity have been shaped and enforced. The torso is rendered with clarity and strength, invoking an image of masculinity long sanctioned and affirmed. At the same time, it is framed by softness and historical ornament, recalling forms of power that once allowed beauty, texture, and vulnerability to coexist with authority. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt the upper edge of the composition, a cross earring appears. Decorative in form yet structural in meaning, it signals a system that shaped how masculinity was narrowed, femininity displaced, and binaries hardened. Within this framework, softness in men became untenable, while domestic and contemplative spaces were relegated to the feminine. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeld together in a single image, these forces are not reconciled but exposed. Masculinity appears here not as a natural given, but as something historically produced—formed through belief, ritual, and correction. The work reflects on what was lost when masculinity was stripped of tenderness, and what becomes visible when that loss is no longer hidden. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevisiting these structures now is not incidental. In a moment marked by renewed calls for rigid gender roles, the romanticization of submission, and the erosion of reproductive and bodily autonomy, the painting insists that these hierarchies are neither neutral nor inevitable. By looking back, it asks what histories are being reactivated in the present—and what is at stake when masculinity is once again asked to harden, purify, and rule.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Ian Stone, 2025\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e_____\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Montreal (1982), Stone studied printmaking at NSCAD University before completing an MFA in painting and drawing at Concordia University. His early training in printmaking continues to inform his approach to image construction, visible in the layered, deliberate process through which his compositions are staged, photographed, and translated into painting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStone has exhibited across Canada and internationally. His work is held in public and private collections, including the Florida State University Museum and the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria. Stone continues to develop a practice that bridges historical painting techniques with contemporary narratives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ian Stone","offers":[{"title":"16 X 12 in.","offer_id":47281089937666,"sku":"37318","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0919\/5944\/files\/Stone-Discipline-16x12-oilonlinen-2026-web_d601b47c-871d-4230-814d-f5696299688b.jpg?v=1769112964","url":"https:\/\/bau-xi.com\/en-us\/products\/discipline","provider":"Bau-Xi Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}