LOVE & OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS | Rx Gallery | 6P December 2, 2005

Love and Other Natural Disasters
Recent paintings by Michael Thrush

Art Opening: DEC 2 6-9P
Gallery Hours: WED/THU 3-7P & FRI/SAT 5-9P
[closed 12/22 to 12/25]

Post-pop artist Michael Thrush has his second one-person show at Rx after last year's acclaimed exhibition when all but 2 of the 15 large-scale works made their way into important collections around the world. Thrush embraces and perverts Pop art sensibilities to absurdist leaps of logic and hyper-surrealistic extremes. In over a dozen recent works, comics and icons of advertising culture lose their identity when freed from their duties to spread mass-consumption. As they become intertwined with other imagery and culture-jammed into obedient roles cast by the artist, a diabolic narrative resonates in the background which claims the death of these highly charged cultural forms while revealing their banal entropy and ambivalence at the same time.

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