“Openings, Not Openings”

“Openings, Not Openings”

Bärenzwinger 2020

April — October 2020

With the artists, curators, staff, and friends of the Bärenzwinger Berlin.

Loopy Loonies

Several drawings from my Loopy Loonies series will be shown in an exhibition opening October 23, 2020 in Berlin at the Haus der Statistik titled “The New Normal?”:

Loopy Loonies, 35 x 35 cm, graphite on rag paper.

Loopy Loonies, 35 x 35 cm, graphite on rag paper.

Loopy Loonies, 35 x 35 cm, graphite on rag paper.

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The series Loopy Loonies explores the violence imbedded in the comic and cartoon imagery endemic to American visual culture. In the context of the present-day political disaster in the US, the formal language—which includes splats, speech bubbles, and animated letters of the alphabet—inquires into the ways in which a culture weaned on entertainment, superheroes, and happy ends loses its ability to distinguish between fact and fiction.