Joshua Hagler, aka the only visual artist I've given more than half a shit about in the past couple years, has been a favorite on PTSOTL for a while now. I interviewed him here at length last year about his work.
He's got a new exhibition "The Imagined Chase" opening next month at Frey Norris Gallery in San Francisco with a reception March 1st from 5 to 8pm. He's been kind enough to share some of his recent work with us again, like the centerpiece of his new work "The birth (in three acts)," a recent triptych, none of which is very 'funny' per se. It is, however, unsettling, and a little spooky, so that counts well enough for our purposes here.
Although when we spoke last time, he disagreed a little on the humor front.
"Yes, it is scary inside my brain. But it’s also a shitload of fun. Why doesn’t anyone ever comment on the exuberance of the work? Or the caustic humor? The work acknowledges a basic fear, but it also celebrates it. I find nearly everything to be funny somehow."
Me too. Check out a few images below.
Act 1: "If you're not careful, you're going to ruin somebody's life, so why don't you think about what you're doing before you do it."
Act 2: "I know I know you, I made you, and you don't disappoint me. I love you regardless."
Act 3: "I'm not condoning what I did, but I'm clearly here because of it. I'm sitting here. With you."
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dude, you should've asked him how much of the explanations of stuff at art museums is bullshit(i'm guessing 98%), like when one dude takes a bunch of dryer sheets and incorporates them into a painting or something and the little card says something about tying together the cultural identity or his neighborhood as signified by the number of laundromats into the larger blah blah. i mean, i obviously a philistine but half the time, i'm thinking maybe he/she just thought it would look cool.
Yeah, I'm going to ask him that next time for sure.
good advice. "If you're not careful, you're going to ruin somebody's life, so why don't you think about what you're doing before you do it."
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