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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Sex / Visual Art Why Don't We Do It In the Road?

Posted by Jen Graves on Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:53 AM

Because It's Not Romantic If No One's Watching. (Oil painting, 2012, by local artist Jeremy Mangan, now showing through December 1 at Linda Hodges Gallery in Pioneer Square, more images on the artist's web site.)

COURTESY THE ARTIST AND LINDA HODGES GALLERY

If you're like me, you'll see echoes of Nathan DiPietro's lightly perverse landscapes in Mangan's deadpanning. I love the small oil and acrylic on panel Just Right, 2012. It feels like a sendup of Thomas Kinkade's paintings-of-light, in which each house glows a "heavenly" gold. Rather, this house rages. Somebody—or something—is crazy in there, burning the place up and pumping the heat out so hard through the ten chimneys that the out-of-doors is starting to melt around the home.

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I'm glad you introduced me to Nathan DiPietro and now these. Just like the painting vs. photo game, I like many of these because it's fun to imagine the art installation and whether it would be compelling, in Harbor Crossing especially.

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