November 20 - December 20 Jack the Pelican is delighted to present an exhibition of thirteen artists working in a variety of media who disarm and seduce you with a strange blend of esoteric and innocent. We like laughing cavaliers, we like pirates (we like the boldness of their vanity), we like courtesans and geisha, we like bull fighters. These are highly mannerized individuals, fetishizing charm and style to say, "I don't care," right in the face of all the power they confront, "Aren't I just beautiful?" Rather than challenge institutional structures, the artists in Curly Q sit down with it all and tickle it silly. |
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 Yuanyuan Yang, Guilty, 2008, oil on panel, 16 x 12" |
 Yuanyuan Yang, Foreverland, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 20" |
 Ira Eduardovna, Roullette, 2008, video, 2mins |
 George Jenne, Black Beard, 2009, fabric and hair, with mixed media, 72" + chain |
 Lars Kremer, Cockroach (self portrait), 2008, lvt hi-res film in lightbox frame, 16.5 x 19.5 x 2", ed. 1/5 |
 Nola Romano, Five Day Forecast, 2008, oil on panel, 7 x 5' |
 Mark Joshua Epstein, Seasick Yet Still Docked #1 (detail), 2009, oil on canvas, 48 x 36″ |
 Joseph Cavalieri, The Countryman and the Serpent, No. 7 in the “Simpson’s Missing Episodes” series, 2009, vitreous enamel, layered stained glass, solder, 24 1/2 x 34 3/8“. Bart plays the countryman, with multiple “astro-Maggies” and the irritatingly optimistic, overly religious, Ned Flanders, as the serpent. Bart was thinking “I wanna see you move your body like a snake, yeah” (R. Kelly)... but violently got over that. |
 Joseph Cavalieri, Funerale di un’Amica (Funeral for a Friend), No. 2 in the “Simpson’s Missing Episodes” series, 2009, vitreous enamel, layered stained glass, solder, 24 1/4 x 34 1/8”. While painting Marge laid out on her death table, I realized I didn’t need to show Marge’s full figure, or even her face. All that was needed was her iconoclastic blue hair. |
 Matt Hansel, Sideshow, 2009, oil, acrylic and Ink on canvas, 48 x 84" |
 Charles Birnbaum, Erato, 2009, porcelain, 18" high |
 Elia Alba, Skaters 2, 2008, C-print, 40 x 40" |
 Mary Ting |
 Ian Brownlee, My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48" |
 Joseph Cavalieri, Polycephaly Sample, 2009, vitreous enamel, glass, solder, two-headed bird, 8 x 8 x 6 1/2” |
 Mark Joshua Epstein, Seasick Yet Still Docked #3 (detail), 2009, oil on canvas, 48 x 36″ |
 Mary Ting |
 Mark Joshua Epstein, Seasick Yet Still Docked #4 (detail), 2009, oil on canvas, 48 x 36″ |
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