Andrew Guenther flaunts a rich, multihued aesthetic in his new large-scale paintings with an unabashed use of bright colors, blinding light, and supernatural glows. With the eye of a zany anthropologist, Guenther constructs a strange, primeval world where humanoid creatures struggle to cohabitate. Some of these beings are relegated to isolation; the painting Falling Back juxtaposes a large, totemic face filling half of the foreground against a lonely figure sitting in a background corner. Elsewhere, the artist blends in elements of humor — tacking tiny, cast-bronze raisins on a canvas to capriciously denote a shriveled scrotum.

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