Event Listing - Galleries
Fri Dec 2, 2005 - Sat Jan 21, 2006

Love and other Natural Disasters

Recent paintings by MICHAEL THRUSH


Tel. 415 474 7973
Email Love and other Natural Disasters
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Location
Date and Time
Rx (Gallery) CLOSED
132 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
cross street: Mason
district: Union Square/San Francisco Centre

Fri Dec 2, 2005 (Art Opening Event! 6-9P)
Sat Dec 3, 2005 (Gallery Hours 5-9P)
Wed Dec 7, 2005 (Gallery Hours 3-7P)
Thu Dec 8, 2005 (Gallery Hours 3-7P)
Fri Dec 9, 2005 (Gallery Hours 5-9P)

Description
Post-pop artist Michael Thrush has his second one-person show at Rx after last year's acclaimed exhibition when all but 2 of the 15 large-scale works made their way into important collections around the world. Thrush embraces and perverts Pop art sensibilities to absurdist leaps of logic and hyper-surrealistic extremes. In over a dozen recent works, comics and icons of advertising culture lose their identity when freed from their duties to spread mass-consumption. As they become intertwined with other imagery and culture-jammed into obedient roles cast by the artist, a diabolic narrative resonates in the background which claims the death of these highly charged cultural forms while revealing their banal entropy and ambivalence at the same time.