I really enjoyed reading the related content titles for this one. "Dress Up, Dress Off" "Explosions in the Sky" "Dinosaurs Unearthed"... When's your next music review, Mr. Packham?
Oh, I don't know if I'd go so far as to call Hieronymus 'batshit'. Lovely review, as usual. I'll probably skip this exhibit, though. I prefer reading your description of the pieces to actually looking at the prints themselves. While I can see what you're saying about Duhrer, which makes this interesting to me, I can't seem to get over the Crumb-y aspects (I know, that was awful, I apologize.)
This was my favorite part: Like avuncular radio nuisance Garrison Keillor, Huck draws creative inspiration from his rural upbringing. Unlike Keillor, Huck does not produce cozy, amniotic societal affirmations. His art is concerned with issues of violence, racism, abuses of authority, and people who, as author William Gibson once put it, "don't know shit about anything and hate anybody who does."
Great work.
This was my favorite line of the day: "Serious art criticism generally avoids the issue of lickability, but it would be dishonest not to say these pieces look extremely lickable." So good. I wish you had a picture of the "Yeah Right" piece, it sounds wonderful.
I cannot get past this line, I'm laughing to hard: 'How can you reinterpret a classification that so easily assimilates any nonrepresentational work? And what exactly constitutes an "aberrant" abstraction? A realistic painting of a log cabin, maybe?' Can't wait to read the rest of the article, once I calm down a bit.
Great interview. You clearly researched him beforehand which made this so much more interesting that the usual "So what are you working on now / what's next for you" crap. Excellent. Will we see this in the Pitch this week? I want to hang the picture up in my cube. :)
Ha ha ha -- drop the mic.
This is genius. It's the anti-"Back to Rockville" review. I'm wondering if the grumpy commenters are just offended because they like the band? Don't be ashamed, we all like things that suck sometimes. I own a copy of "Journey's Greatest Hits". And I like it. It's all good.
Re: “At Grand Arts, the gentle surrealism of Ryan Mosley”
I've come back to this article a couple of times. Frankly, because I'm waiting for your NEXT article and hoping it has a bit more Chris in it. Is the new Pitch direction to leech all of the life out of these pieces? Just curious.
I have to say, though, I really like this painting. Most of your art reviews get me motivated to actually leave the house & check out the galleries. I just miss the extra sprinkles on top.