Richard Phillips makes gorgeous things.

Richard Phillips, Fundraiser, 2009, oil on canvas, 72 x 108". Image courtey Gagosian Gallery

Richard phillip`s work stradles the line of pornography, but with realistic and effective artistic intent. Art as a vessel often times exists not only to express the creators feelings and emotion, but more often to instigate certain feelings in the viewer. To push the boundries of what ones brain accepts as art. Richards message (for me) is that Art, and advertising and the expression of human beings through things such as pornography or even human form for that matter are married together. The messages do not have to be misinterpreted just because there is no sense of uniformity. Art is art is advertising is human.
Richard does most of the cover art for the DIRTY VEGAS albums and his work is riddled through the internet...

I think he puts out rad things and have always been enamored with his use of really soft curves and lines to make his subjects possess a great cartoon characteristic whilst still holding their true to human form.

Check out some of his works at the gagosian gallery in New York at the moment:

http://www.gagosian.com/