10.12.2009

YuppiePunk Art Show

YuppiePunk is a lot like an art gallery. Except we don’t have crisp walls, bright lights, loyal patrons or a well-thought out aesthetic. Also, we don’t sell paintings. But aside from that, we’re almost exactly like an art gallery. Which is why we’ve curated this group show from a collection of contemporary artists who have nothing in common but a whole lot of awesome. So take a looksie and enjoy the complimentary wine and cheese. And if you ask us a question about something you see, we promise to be ultra-pretentious.

These are from Eric White’s LP show at Sloan Fine Art, in which the artist painted some of his favorite album covers, perverted, of course, by his own warped surreal style. Here are his tributes to Harry Belafonte, Frank Zappa and The Knack.

We’ve written about Danny Heller before. Architecture is his muse, and his latest batch focuses on Joseph Eichler, the visionary post-war developer whose modern design style changed the way Californians lived. These are called “Eichler with Vespa,” “Eichler at Sunset” and “Eichler with Porsche” respectively.

The work of Norwegian illustrator Jan Hakon Robson is super-intricate, and the compressed images below don’t do them justice. He’s like a doodler gone mad — drawing basic shapes over and over again, inverted and upside down until the tiny pieces morph into something else — and much larger — entirely.

Korin Faught likes to paint women, most often capturing them in a moment of serene beauty, unaware of the viewer, their likenesses forever captured on canvass at their most vulnerable.

Splitting his time between fine art and movie animation, John Puglisi paints the industrial New Jersey of his youth in browns and grays, like some kind of permanently polluted nostalgia, always observing from a distance. These are titled “Fisher Field,” “Miss February” and “Wake.”

Natalia Fabia ain’t no hooker, but she sure likes to paint them. Inspired by punk rock, tattoos and cheap beer, her paintings live fast and die young.

Jonathan Weiner’s latest series is stunning: Square portraits of women who have at least three things in common — nudity, nose rings and headphones. His work makes us purr, and his latest batch is no exception.

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