Beefmaster artists Kottie Paloma and Laurent Impeduglia team up again this month in CRAPTASTIC! at Booklyn Artists Alliance. The group exhibition is curated by Paloma, and features work from artists Joe Roberts (San Francisco), STO (Brooklyn), and Laurent Impeduglia (Liege, Belgium).
CRAPTASTIC!
July 10th-August 10th 2010
Booklyn Artists Alliance
37 Greenpoint Ave. 4th Floor
Opening Reception
July 10th 7-10pm
CRAPTASTIC! Is a group show featuring 3 exceptional artists Joe Roberts (San Francisco), STO (Brooklyn), and Laurent Impeduglia (Liege, Belgium). Each of these artists are working in cartoon based painting/drawing, collage, and sculptural formats with a mood, color scheme, and a view of the world that requires one to have a sense of humor. It’s these common threads that pulls them together for a fun and mind bending exhibition.
The idea for the title CRAPTASTIC! Derived from a conversation between Kottie Paloma and Marshall Weber, in which both were having not quite a fantastic day, but wasn’t the worst day either, the two of them decided at that point that they were having a CRAPTASTIC! day! An expression to combine two different aspects of ones day, similar to the way we use the words brunch (breakfast and lunch) or DUNCH! (dinner and lunch), used to describe a full meal to be eaten around 4pm.
This is evident in the work in this exhibit, whether its in Impeduglia search for spirituality were Jesus is at the same cross roads as Daffy Duck, The incredible Hulk, or Startsky and Hutch crashing their infamous red and white car into a church, only to get a moving violation from a skeleton.
In the case of Joe Roberts sticker collages and pot smoking Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle drawings combined with snowmen shooting Uzi machine guns into the night sky, only for alien spaceships to feel like they are in some sort of danger flying across the picture plane inside one of Roberts drawings. There is always an element of the yin and yang in Roberts work.
While STO, focuses on paper mache life like sculptures of common everyday objects such as chocolate covered donuts, mixed tape cassettes, and Mexican wrestling masks, just to name a few. However, in this current exhibit, STO is working around the central theme of Boxing. Life size paper mache sculptures of boxing gloves, a punching bag, championship belts, and boxer shorts. It’s a one two punch by STO and your knocked out, existentially!
-Kottie Paloma