Today seems to be "celebrate creepy people day" on my blog... I've always had a fascination with the slighty macabre and bizarre and these sculptures by Kevin Francis Gray pretty much fit the bill. Saw them at this year's Armory show and I thought they were part kitsch, part glamour and part relic. Some of the works remind me of Bernini's Ecstasy sculptures and yet they look like they ought to belong in Michael Jackson's private art collection, or some cheesy Texan oil millionaire's souped up trailer trash mansion. Contradictory for sure, but beautiful to look at for sure... Kevin's work can be found at Goff + Rosenthal in NYC.
In other creepy people news - Evan Penny - the artist who never fails to make me giddy... not out of awe but because he works play so much with perspective that it makes my eyes go wonky. I first saw his work at a bank's gallery in NYC...i had an argument with my friend cos we couldn't figure out if the sculptures were deliberately skewed to reflect the different angles from different viewpoints or if the windows had some special film that skewed the perspective of the sculptures when you moved... eitherway.. it was unnerving and mesmerizing like watching a train wreck.. nevermind the fact that i was thisclose to fainting, i had to continue looking.
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