Troll

BUTT’s favorite gay tumblr blog CTRL + W33D is leaping off the world wide web and into the physical world with TROLL, a show of original artwork curated by the bloggers that opens Thursday night at the Envoy gallery in New York City. The boys behind W33D have long been collecting the strangest gay graphic ephemera from all corners of the net, with a focus on cut-and-paste Photoshop artwork about cocks or pot. For tomorrow night’s show, however, the focus seems to be on ‘trolling’, as in trolling the internet for content, articles, pictures, or sex, or being a ‘troll’ – either one who leaves anonymous hateful comments on sites to provoke ‘breakdown or chaos’, or a seemingly unattractive person who others find gross.

The show will feature artwork by friends and collaborators of both CTRL + W33D and the BUTT Blog, including Michael Magnan, Jacob Meehan, Scott Hug, Cody Critcheloe, Elijah Burgher, Daniel Leyva, Lazaro Rodriguez, Da Sul Kim, Shawn Maximo (the brains behind the gloryhole booth at BUTT IN ASS), Adam Radakovich of House of Ladosha, Fatima Al Qadiri and Khalid Al Gharaballi, and many, many more. Envoy gallery is located at 131 Chrystie St. TROLL runs through July 15th.