Comforting
Illusions can help get you around uncomfortable
realities. And Art is all about illusion... unless you are an abstract
expressionist... in which case the splatters and dribbles are actually
real. So delightfully deceive yourself at The
Arts Upstairs. Enjoy comfort food and comfort drink at the opening
receptions every third Satudray of the month. This time, Scott
Ackerman is the featured solo artist . His grotesque delusional
scrawlings contrast sharply with his reasonable and good natured personality.
Which is the real delusion?
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Here
Here
is "Please Shut Up" by Scott Ackerman, solo room
artist. Enfant Terrible, walker in the Gucci Loafers of Basquiat,
prolific texter and texturer of tortured alter ego, cynical
sneerer against academic skill sets, and surprisingly successful
despite it all. Or perhaps because of it all. Remember the
Dixie Chicks? Shut Up and Sing? Scott: Don't shut up.
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Sage
Bernhard is just a kid but she already knows the score. It's
Corporations one million and people ZERO. Beneath it
all, she knows that without trees we would all be up fecal
creek without a paddle. "No Tree No Me"
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Robert
Craig is an associate of my friend Ron English. His Sephen
Kingesque "Metropolis 2" shows just how much mightier
the pencil is than the sword. Or Kryptonite for that
matter. The foreground piles of ground chuck are what's left
of humanity after the alien grinder ray gets finished McDonaldizing
us.
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John
Byer lost 23 spinner lures catching this "Fisherman's Dream".
Forget about all his trout torpedos that got buried in the muddy
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Maraleen
Manos Jones lives in on curious island with Boy, Jane and
Tarzan. It is somewhere between Atlantis and the Sargasso
Sea. Climb the ladder to achieve "Harmony in the Land
of the Goddess".
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Dave
Channon also has visions of the goddess. "La Lune"
is a winged wiccan with a five pointed spiral star belly
and six pointed star breasts. He (me) is covering all the
bases just in case.
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Robert
Lipgar's "Study in Chrome" is a motorcycle mama's
wet dream. I do love to see the shiny chariots line up and
down Main Street in Phoenicia.
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Darrin
Morgan and Donnie Bush are creating a new art space in Fleischmanns
where they are cutting cold steel with a plasma torch. It's
a stark contrast between the natural wildlife and the wild
technology of their ion blaster. "The Cleaning Crew"
makes short work of a buck that has stopped here.
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Lee
Sana comes on strong with "The Tiger". Watch
out for the cat's claw. This feline phantasm isn't about
to turn into butter anytime soon.
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Sunday
Dawne-Marie includes an inspring poem with this drawing
titled "A Blue Flower". I urge you to visit this
gem in person to read the entire poem. Or to get this visual
poem permanently etched on your body.
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