Michael Mararian "Do People Like You"
Item Number: 187
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
A google image search of Michael Mararian shows hand-painted cut-outs of little little kids in various costume, attitude and state--a stunning map of collective innocence, poignancy and disaffectation.
All of which is to say, don't miss this original, hand-painted gem (acrylic on found pamphlet) by new-surrealist Michael Mararian. It's small in size, but hefty in character.
Mararian's 2012 show at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, California was heralded as an accurate portrayal of now; he'll have his first solo show in NYC at the Last Rites Gallery this Dec.
Special Instructions
Michael Mararian possesses a poetic propensity for taking traditionally cheerful images and concepts and turning them into frightening, yet humorous, tableaux. Focusing on children as the last bastion of innocence, Mararian draws on a diverse range of influences to deliver the peculiar ink work he aptly calls, M. Mararian’s Inky Dreadfuls. In this world our fondest visions of childhood’s naivete are darkly rearranged to uncover lost innocence and the fear of our modern times.
Though often shroud in the macabre, Michaels’ ink paintings are also suffused with a sense of mischievous, almost self-deprecating humor. What can on one level be construed as melancholy and cruel, can alternately be viewed as amusing, even charming. He enjoys letting his viewers decide.
He is represented by:
Corey Helford Gallery
8522 Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90232
(310) 287-2340
http://www.coreyhelfordgallery.com
Last Rites Gallery
511 West 33rd st. suite 3N
New York, NY 10001
(212) 529-0666
www.lastritesgallery.com/
Von Fraunberg Art Gallery
Luisenstraße 53
D-40215 Düsseldorf
Telefon: +49 211 484 69 50
http://www.vonfraunbergartgallery.com/
5 Pieces Gallery
Alpenstrasse 53
3073 Guemligen, Berne
Switzerland
http://www.5piecesgallery.com/