Opening reception: December 7, 6 - 9 pm
Show runs two weeks, December 7 - 22, 2012
Selected
works from the Utrillo's collection of thrift art. This show features
found photos of people, ranging from a tiara-crowned little girl to a
disturbing montage of backwoods kinfolk. Utrillo's was a thrift art and
framing shop, on East 10th Street, Indianapolis, which was founded by
artist Greg Brown in the early 1990s. Also on display, portrait sketches
by Harry Blomme.
“My plan was to show a fairly
straight-forward presentation, but the work defied standard arrangements. In
the end, I mixed everything together, and added even more disparate works. And
so heart-melting children's photos hang next to the har-har hairdo photos, next
to the haunting 19th century Russian couple. The scary mountain folk
snapshot collage and Randy Wyatt's O.J. Simpson painting, are corralled from
the children by vertical grouping. Harry Blomme pencil portraits cover one
wall, and Georgia Kraus watercolors grace the opposite corner. The absurdist
approach tempers the emotional extremes, bringing the freak and the sweet onto
more common ground.” Carla Knopp 12-1-12
Most works will be for sale, proceeds will be donated to Gleaners Food Bank.
Most works will be for sale, proceeds will be donated to Gleaners Food Bank.
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