Andres Serrano is one of America's most mythologized contemporary artists. To many he's responsible for Piss Christ and a national scandal over government funding of controversial art. For those who look beyond the headlines, he's a highly accomplished and ever evolving photographic artist showing us the ordinary in extraordinary ways. With his post-Piss Christ series, nomads, he made studio portraits of New York's ethnic homeless and juxtaposed them with members of the Klu Klux Klan in the morgue series, he dissected violent death and found the human thread on the coroner's slab, while a history of seks explored the human mating urge in its infinite variety
