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Erik Parker »
The graffiti-influenced painter's psychedelic headcases
A visionary painter inspired by underground comics, graffiti, hip-hop, noise music, and conspiracy theory, as well as the art of Picasso, Bacon, and Basquiat, Erik Parker makes portraits of fantastical characters that are frightening in physical appearance and visually compelling in color and form. His current show at Faurschou in Copenhagen focuses completely on heads, which exquisitely exploit both psychological and psychedelic realms.
Building on a bold, hallucinogenic body of figurative works, which were exhibited in his past two solo outings at Honor Fraser Gallery in LA and Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York, Parker continues his nuts-and-bolts, bare-boned structure of skinless figures, floating in fractured color wheels and abstract space.
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Banksy filmed him, Berlusconi has collected his work, and Shepard Fairey called him "awesome, infuriating, almost impossible to define." Mr. Brainwash — aka Thierry Guetta — is the exuberant, French, chain-smoking, paint-splattered chatterbox whose street-meets-Pop art is, like any good hyperbole, larger than life. We visited with the artist in the 15,000 square-foot warehouse hosting his first New York solo show.
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Published Thursday, February 11, 2010 |
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