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JOSEPH GROSS - James Charles | John Felix Arnold III

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Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2015 · Entertainment

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Exhibition Dates: November 5 – 25, 2015

Monstro Eyegasmica
New Work by James Charles
Exhibition Dates: November 5 - 25, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday November 5th | 6-8 p.m.
 
October 19, 2015 (New York, NY) – Joseph Gross Gallery is pleased to present Monstro Eyegasmica, a solo exhibition of new paintings by James Charles. Charles is well known in the San Francisco Bay Area for his colorful statements on consumer culture. He will début a series of large scale vibrant paintings inspired by pop culture, alongside his signature detailed work on banknotes. The opening reception will be held at Joseph Gross Gallery (548 W 28th St.) on November 5th, 2015 from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Monstro Eyegasmica is a culmination of James Charles’ new series of vivid, large mixed media paintings in which the artist combines illustration, painting, and collage-style composition to create works that are at once familiar and unsettling. Charles’ brand-jamming artwork irreverently combines pop culture characters with traditional iconography and embodies a sarcastic sense of humor. His fluorescent painting Axis Bold as McLove is based on the image on the album cover of Axis: Bold As Love, released by The Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1967. Charles’ painting updates the image by replacing Hendrix with Ronald McDonald holding an array of fast food items. This unapologetic image of a fast food mascot alongside a God is an explicit critique of the commercialization of contemporary society.

John Felix Arnold III was born in Durham, North Carolina.  Throughout the 80s and 90s he grew up moving between Durham and New York City, always finding stories amongst the rusted, decaying, old spirits of the East Coast.  He explores new ways to present, perceive and communicate narrative experience through his work.  He embraces figurative, abstract and conceptual modes of creating through a range of media and process.  He graduated Pratt Institute in 2002 with a BFA in Communication Design and in 2006 moved to study Graduate Printmaking at San Francisco Art Institute. He has shown with SFMOMA, the Luggage Store Gallery, Joseph Gross Gallery. The Shooting Gallery, Spoke Art, BRIC Arts, and was a Spes-Lab Residency artist in Tokyo. He currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.

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