Nicola Verlato
Praeteritum Nunc Futurum. Translation: Past, present, and future. Tomorrow night, Merry Karnowsky gallery closes out the year with past and new works from their roster, serving as a preview of 2015. References to time can also be found, as in the Victorian subjects in Lezley Saar’s piece, or Nicola Verlato’s sweeping scene starring Kimbra in an old Western gone wrong. Artists such as Jeff Soto and Greg ‘Craola’ Simkins offer more humorous, character based paintings. Craola’s The Gobbler portrays a knight riding a turkey through a strange combination of holiday symbols. Mark Whalen also inserts humor into his illustrations, which read like a reimagining of ancient people’s life, from arm-wrestling to preparing sacrifices. Take a look at our preview of the show below.
Mark Whalen
Mark Whalen (detail)
Travis Louie
Jeff Soto
Greg ‘Craola’ Simkins
Nicola Verlato (detail)
Guillermo del Toro is known as one of the most imaginative filmmakers working today. As the director of some of this generation's most inventive horror and monster genre films, from Hellboy (2004), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), Pacific Rim (2013), and Crimson Peak (2015), it should come as no surprise that del Toro loves monsters- and he has a creepy art collection to match. His treasured collection has been a work in progress since he was a child in Guadalajara, Mexico, and given its significant impact on del Toro's work and process, is now being brought to the public, courtesy of LACMA.
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