IMAGINARY FRIENDS: 3 Solo Shows
1310 Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
March 2012
The three artists featured, JC Bravo, Ben Morey, and Paul Caprio, each create surreal, fantastic figurations in their own styles, while using imaginative dark humor, conceptual wit, and classical draftsmanship.
1st Floor | ALL AMERICAN by JC Bravo The entrance level of the gallery will premiere Bravo's newest series of low-brow stylized figurative symbolism, integrated with humor, pop culture, and social commentary. To explore ideas of “Americanism,” Bravo combines his knowledge of art history, modern art, and psychology with personal experiences and observations of human behavior to create paintings that pose questions regarding abundance, violence, sexuality and self-acceptance.
2nd Floor | TV-PG by Ben Morey TV-PG is an accretion of multimedia work spanning 2008 to 2012 including drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, and an interactive installation. The works in this colorful exhibit were created compulsively in response to social tension, self-medication and existential frustrations. Morey's subjects and the environments around them evoke the playfulness of children’s toys and the over-the-top aesthetic of retro television and psychedelia, drizzling an unnervingly cheerful sugarcoating over the tension of each image and installation.
3rd Floor | OTHER WORLD by Paul Caprio Other World features recent ink drawings by Paul Caprio - exquisitely detailed renderings of conceptual surrealism that beckon the viewer to look closer. The sophistication of Caprio’s draftsmanship is evocative of Albrecht Durer or Edward Gorey, yet progresses with deeply embedded emotions and parodies of contemporary human nature.
1310 Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
March 2012
The three artists featured, JC Bravo, Ben Morey, and Paul Caprio, each create surreal, fantastic figurations in their own styles, while using imaginative dark humor, conceptual wit, and classical draftsmanship.
1st Floor | ALL AMERICAN by JC Bravo The entrance level of the gallery will premiere Bravo's newest series of low-brow stylized figurative symbolism, integrated with humor, pop culture, and social commentary. To explore ideas of “Americanism,” Bravo combines his knowledge of art history, modern art, and psychology with personal experiences and observations of human behavior to create paintings that pose questions regarding abundance, violence, sexuality and self-acceptance.
2nd Floor | TV-PG by Ben Morey TV-PG is an accretion of multimedia work spanning 2008 to 2012 including drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, and an interactive installation. The works in this colorful exhibit were created compulsively in response to social tension, self-medication and existential frustrations. Morey's subjects and the environments around them evoke the playfulness of children’s toys and the over-the-top aesthetic of retro television and psychedelia, drizzling an unnervingly cheerful sugarcoating over the tension of each image and installation.
3rd Floor | OTHER WORLD by Paul Caprio Other World features recent ink drawings by Paul Caprio - exquisitely detailed renderings of conceptual surrealism that beckon the viewer to look closer. The sophistication of Caprio’s draftsmanship is evocative of Albrecht Durer or Edward Gorey, yet progresses with deeply embedded emotions and parodies of contemporary human nature.
