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custom panels for each painter.
Artists in the show include Shawn Huckins,
Kathrin Longhurst, Lo Chan Peng and Brad Woodfi n.
Huckins says, “I’ve always found inspiration in
reintroducing, possibly forgotten 18th- and 19th-century
American painting with current-day digital vernac-
ular. In regards to dafuq?, I wanted to combine a
peaceful but ominous landscape with a phrase that
could sum up today’s current political climate.”
We Move Like a Trembling Fire, by Woodfin,
was titled from the back of a Godspeed You! Black
Emperor T-shirt the artist owns. “I always pictured an
octopus moving like trembling fi re,” he says. “I looked
at a bunch of Renaissance-era tondos and I thought
by putting a drape-y octopus on a round panel I could
turn him into a sort of Renaissance Virgin Mary.”
Mondo Tondo will hang March 16 through 30.
Arcadia Contemporary 39 E. Colorado Boulevard • Pasadena,
CA 91105 • (626) 486-2018 • http://www.arcadiacontemporary.com
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Panels being
created at
Artefex.
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Shawn
Huckins,
dafuq?, oil on
panel, 24"
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Lo Chan
Peng,
Untitled, oil
on panel, 24"
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Kathrin
Longhurst, So
Long Baby, oil
on panel, 24"
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Brad
Woodfi n,
We Move Like
Trembling
Fire, oil on
panel, 24"
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