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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Arts Insightfully Disturbing
Posted By Contributing Intern on Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:57 AM
The Deal: New art at the Kevin Starr a.r.t. s.t.u.d.i.o on Central Avenue. Old movies glorifying traditional gender roles and family gatherings were projected on a back wall amidst many different depictions of human beings. Kelly Carbon’s paintings depicted 1950s-esque characters struggling to live with a black and white moral imagination. Above these hung Kevin Starr’s active and colorful presentation of striking characters in dream-like settings. Steve Chellis has hung simple images of faces that have been blurred and reddened to make them chillingly resonant. Silver print photographs by Justin Hyte and Kevin Starr explore our culture’s domination of female bodies through the use of seductive imagery.
The Good: It’s all smart and provocative social commentary. Be sure to decide which figure is the artist in Steve Chellis’s painting entitled “Self Portrait,” and take a look at Kelly Carbon’s painting with a woman buying “flesh” while being stared at by a man holding a butcher’s knife.
The Bad: Many of the paintings are meant to be a little creepy. If you can’t handle that, stay away.
The Verdict: I’ve recommended it to friends. It’s not for everyone, especially not for kids, but it’s damn thought-provoking stuff.
http://kevinstarrartstudio.com/
-- Ethan Case
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