Land of Retinal Stimulation: Mark Ryden’s The Creatrix is the painting at center, with Carlee Fernandez’s Buffalo-7200 in the foreground. (Photos by C-M.)
If you took a little Hieronymus Bosch, added a dash of R. Crumb, a pinch of California car culture, and folded in a heaping stack of late-night sci-fi, you’d end up with the Laguna Art Museum’s latest show, In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor. This all-encompassing two-story survey takes a look at the fast-rising genres of pop surrealism, lowbrow and street art/graffiti as covered by Juxtapoz mag since its founding by painter Robert Williams in 1994. Featuring the work of 150 artists (including some fake dookies by Paul McCarthy), it’s an apocalyptic vision of America’s pop culture sausage factory turned inside out, revealing lots of gory, nasty innards.
The show is up through October 5th.
Click on images to supersize. More after the jump.
Dona Dolorosa, 2007 by Sylvia Ji.
Barry McGee, a.k.a. Twist.
A Bear of a Bear, 2006 by Seonna Hong.
Swoon.
Samantha and the Two Darrins, 2002, by Isabel Samaras.
The Golden Plague, 2004, by Tim Biskup.
The R. Biggs Memorial Museum by Greg Gibbs.
Fake (Poop), 1992, by Paul McCarthy.
Wood sculptures covered in gold and silver leaf by Saber.
Forever and Ever, 2007, by Vince Valdez.
Os Gemeos.
Detail: Collusion: Behemoth, 2007, a photorealist painting by Eric White. See the full piece.
Sarah and Octopus/Seventh Heaven, 2001, by Masami Teraoka.
DOB-c and DOB-a, both from 1996, by Takashi Murakami.
Detail of Orphaned Nihilistic Escape Ship, 2005, by Camille Rose Garcia.
Neckface.
The Orange County Register has a story on the show, as well as a photo essay.
Posted by C-Monster.
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