A Quiet Gathering of the Gods....

Hi sugarbabies....
last weekend…while washingtonians went about doing their normal washingtonian stuff.. there was a

Quiet Gathering Of The Art Gods..
 Hemphill Fine Arts  (1515 14^th St NW) deserves props for stepping outside their safe usual stuff and hosting a show Tug of War that included most of the Giants of the Lowbrow Genre.. or
Pop Surrealism.. as it has become known..

In any other city..

ok … any major city with a half decent art scene…

just one of these guys would have been enough to have lines around the block of art school confidential wannabes, groupies, and serious collectors…commanding prices that range from three hundred to 13 thousand… there is usually something for everyone..

but DC..well...I suppose it would be stretching it to call our art tastes anything other than kinda blah… not that we don’t have great artists.. we do.. or that we don’t have galleries that try to showcase good stuff.. we do..

we just cant seem to get the ultra conservative folks around DC to care about anything more risky than some black and white photos of statues…

but.. this weekend THEY were HERE..

and the stuff while risky by DC standards.. was… pretty tame when measured next to the body of most of these artists  work…

 the show includes the works of:

SHAG, Glenn Barr, Chris Mars, Joe Sorren, Tim Biskup, Gary Baseman, Liz McGrath, Bob Dob, Gary Taxali, Scot Musgrove, Daniel Peacock, Danial Martin Diaz… etc etc..

and will be here thru April 7^th… 

The Sunday Book Signing… included the following Superstars:

SHAG (Josh Agle) ..you know his work even if you don’t know you know it…

Glenn Barr …ahhh…my personal fave.. a Detroit native and brilliant fella… there are a few of his hanging at home..  here is his famous..
Jesus Tour 

 

a pretty cool way to roll...would'nt you agree???

Liz McGrath… kick ass gothy twisted stuff that never fails to get folks talking...her submission here.. doesn’t disappoint

 Bob Dob… ive been wanting one of his exaggerated angsty adolescents for a while now too…

 

the Gods were all sitting round a long L shaped table with bottles of Perrier on hand…
(kinda weird.. pop surrealism in itself ) chatting easily with each other and supporters…signing books and goodies…there was a slow but steady crowd that came through.. some in punky leather jackets, some in jcrew, (one blond in killer red patent leather pradas ;-)) 
but… not an overwhelming crowd… not the kind that would require bouncers… not the kind they would have had if they managed to gather these guys (and dolls) in any other town..
or maybe just in a town that believed that there is more to life than the scooter libby trial......
xoxo

sb