Denver Art Log

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some of them wear teeth @ Pirate: Contemporary Art (Amanda Gordon Dunn)

A little bit raw and a little bit slick. Poppy and bright. These would look really good on skateboards (or in Sweet Action!).

“Design-y” which sounds dismissive but what I mean is that the colors and compositions are impactful rather than ponderous. “Illustrative” by which I mostly mean “she’s a good draw-er.”

The protagonists are all animals. Some of them are delicately rendered power animals and the rest are anthropomorphized, cartoonish slackers. Dopey-eyed and tragically hip.

There are probably too many animal slackers? Or perhaps there is not enough happening within their vacant stares. But the paintings and collages show a real knack for mixing and matching (and making and layering) a diversity of beautiful marks.