01 Aug Os Párias
August 4 – 27, 2021
From Korean-born, New York artist Miran Kim‘s paintings of dead children, to a Christopher Ulrich mural that was commissioned (then rejected) by the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, these nine pieces represent instances of acute moral panic and potentially polarizing ideas.
Gidget Gein (born Bradley Mark Stewart, 1969 – 2007), was a co-founding member of the rock band Marilyn Manson, whose use of obscenity is epitomized via “Unfuck-Yourself,” one of his best-know UnPop works.
Upstate New York photo-realist painter Robert Craig came under heavy fire in 2016 for being less-than forthcoming about the archaic and modern print and painting techniques that had become a staple part of of production process. Even more bizarre was the largely fictional backstory he had peddled to close friends and patrons who have yet to completely unravel where the truth and fiction separate. Then in a textbook case of truth being stranger than fiction, the controversy actually increased the value of his work, and a viral documentary by pop artist Ron English bought even greater notoriety without addressing any of the scandal. Craig then dropped completely out of sight and remains in seclusion to this day. All of that takes a backseat to the very different controversy that a painting which features an Upside Down Crucifix, a Confederated swastika, and Mickey Mouse as Shiva the Destroyer of Worlds, can generate. While it’s easy to interpret this as a statement on the last four years or the media-backed rise of the alt-right, this is actually a piece from 2013 and this is just one of many oddball instances of prophecy that one can find in Craig’s work -even if some see him as a Charlatan.
Photographer Eric Minh Swenson got into a very public row with Coagula publisher Mat Gleason following his very first exhibition of abstract floral paintings (hosted here at Gallery 30 South in 2017). He has since shot, edited, and released over 2000 films on art and artists and has become at least as well known for his unfiltered social media posts as for his artistic endeavors.
Padding out the show we have an abstract expressionist painting by Bryson Bost that is a Controversy in title, only.
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