“To me, male ejaculation is one of the most erotic, intimate and beautiful things to witness,” said Cary Kwok in 2021. “I realize my fantasies on paper, injected with my sense of humor. That’s what turns me on.” The London-based artist was born in Hong Kong in 1975, and his work hovers between the glamorous commercial illustrations of Bob Peak and Harumi Yamaguchi and the homoerotic hyperbole of Tom of Finland. Perhaps best known for his painstaking drawings of penises—“It’s never my intention to shock and I don’t think my work is confrontational anyway. It’s meant to be humorous. I like dicks,” said Kwok in the same 2021 interview—his non-explicit work is no less sexually charged. Starting on May 18, London’s Sessions Arts Club—Clerkenwell’s gorgeous Grade II listed bar/restaurant/gallery—is showing four new dreamily sensual paintings Kwok created for the space. He says they were “inspired by 1980s motifs—from fashion editorials and interior design to cinema, music videos, and advertising.” Additionally, Kwok has collaborated with the restaurant by creating labels for the fifth edition of its Lost Wines Project, this time a rosé made from Pinot Noir grapes, housed in bottles adorned with his cheeky artwork. The paintings are up through the summer. —Spike Carter

The paintings can be seen by anyone dining at Sessions or by appointment