“Death is as forbidden a topic in modern society as sex was in Victorian England,” says US re-pat Laurie Lipton. After her mother’s anti-climatic cremation, she was looking for a little ceremony to death and found it in the culture kitsch of Día de los Muertos. Read more »
Serving up another round of darkly oddities, Last Rites Gallery sends in the handcuffed clowns, the finger puppets violently come to life and a kaleidoscope of baby mugs, snapping at you with jagged milkteeth. Preview the work above and here. “NewBreed II,” Group Show, Aug 7 – Aug 29, Last Rites Gallery, NYC
Ghastly images of conjoined twins and sinister forest people feature in Last Rites Gallery’s year end exhibitions. Craig LaRotonda’s “From The Ashes Of Angels” highlights a series of reflective paintings of pale people that Johnny Depp finds both “enchanting and unnerving.” Meanwhile, Swamp Thing-type creatures tromp through Paul Gerrard’s foggy scenes, digitally rendered in “Skins From The Shadow Circle.”
“From the Ashes of Angels,” “Skins From the Shadow Circle,” December 5 – December 27, Last Rites Gallery, 511 W. 33rd St
Jeff McMillan proves that there’s always new and interesting ways to demonize fast food chains. The artist made a series of paintings that offer a creatively sinister take on America’s most lovable grease-slinging icons for his Pepto Dismal exhibit that opens at the Last Rites Gallery in Manhattan this weekend. The Arabic-looking letters that spell their first names backwards are a nice touch that adds to the fear factor splendidly.
This weekend, Chelsea’s Last Rites Gallery opened a showing of dark, macabre and surreal artworks. “New Breed” features the works of ten established and up and coming artists, all new to the gallery, including Reuben Negrón, Mickey M Edtinger, Sara Antoinette Martin, and Charlie Immer among others. The exhibition will be on view through August 30th at 511 West 33rd Styreet, 3rd Floor.
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