Mickey Monster by Vincent Scala
I Love New
Dork
Group
Exhibition
Opening
reception - August 23rd, 7pm-10pm
August 23rd
through September 18th, 2013
BROOKLYN,
NY (RELEASE August 17th, 2013) — Bunnycutlet Gallery is pleased to present I
Love New Dork, a group exhibition featuring 25 emerging and established
artists, many of whom will be exhibiting with Bunnycutlet for the first time.
For this
exhibition, artists flamboyantly channel pop art through the fetishes of Nerd
culture iconography, employing irony and emphasizing kitsch to highlight the
absurdity and seriousness of that culture's infectious effect.
Nerds have
their roots in the 1970's "bronze age" of comics and sci-fi
subculture, sharing a once unfashionable passion for computers, fantasy, video
games, and cosplay. Previously stereotyped as overly exuberant, bespectacled,
and socially isolated, yesteryear's Nerds have cultivated a robust revenge:
their idiosyncratic infatuations -- Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Super
Mario Bros, Batman -- have become mainstream entertainment juggernauts. Added
bonus: obsessive fandom is now a "cool" disposition to champion, toy
collecting and trivia reciting and all, encouraging slavery to episodes of
everything from Games of Thrones to Madmen.
First-time
Bunnycutlet exhibitor Weston Ulfig is a Brooklyn based artist whose reverence
for traditional processes and fascination with video game imagery inspires him
to build large-scale video-quilt "paintings." Also exhibiting is
long-time Bunnycutlet exhibitor is Devin Clark, whose paintings utilize
hundreds of multicolored dashes that radiate from his cartoon subjects with
heroic glory. Newcomer Ian Clyde's oil paintings merge animals with commodities
and technology with cheerful wit, while another newcomer, the award-winning
illustration painter Anthony Freda, re-purposes vintage, American ephemera into
ironic, often sardonic takes on politically charged current events.
CONTRIBUTING
ARTISTS:
Drew
Alderfer
Anja
Altenburg
Christopher
Baldassano
Jennifer
Batinich
Brandon
Bird
Devin Clark
Ian Clyde
Jared Deal
Cara
DeAngelis
Douglas
Einar Olsen
Scott
Foster
Anthony
Freda
Michael
Haleta
John
Jacobsmeyer
Jason
Marzloff (Marz Jr)
Steph
Michios
Gabriel
Pinto
Tracy Piper
Douglas Ra
Eric
Richardson
Derek Rippe
Vincent
Scala
Weston
Ulfig
Edwin
Vazquez
Shari
Weschler Rubeck
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Massimo
Nardi
