Eden Park

Mike Kuchar

Eden Park, 202361 x 45.5cmSign in to view price
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pencil, pen, felt pen, and ink on paperFrançois Ghebaly
Description
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This vibrant contemporary artwork features a striking visual display of clashing colors, bold shapes, and fantastical figures. The composition depicts two muscular, nude male figures against a vibrant, sun-drenched backdrop. The figures are stylized, with the figure on the left sporting a vivid, fuschia-colored skin tone. The overall style evokes an unsettling, surreal quality, using exaggerated proportions and distorted elements. The piece appears to comment on themes of masculinity, sexuality, and societal norms through its provocative imagery and symbolic representations. Ultimately, this thought-provoking work challenges the viewer's preconceptions and encourages deeper contemplation of contemporary social and cultural issues. ...

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Mike Kuchar
Artist
Mike Kuchar
B.1942, American

Mike Kuchar began his artistic career in the early 1960s by making playfully absurd 8mm films with his twin brother George Kuchar. While working with punks, drag queens and eccentric queer personalities from the underground scene of the Bronx, the brothers would use image manipulation, layering, and illustration to create surrealist shorts. Crossing over into a somewhat sinister realm, these kaleidoscopic films stretched the glamour and glitz of Hollywood cinema to its limits, where nonsensical narratives and larger than life personas challenged the more classic cinematic elements. Kuchar’s first solo filmic venture was Sins of Fleshapoids (1965), an extravagant sci-fi piece. Following the film, he cultivated a portfolio of drawings of key characters from these works, which made drawing an inseparable part of Kuchar’s process. Highly graphic, with concrete linework, Kuchar’s muscular figures began appearing in comic books and quickly garnered a cult following. Leaning into a camp, kitsch aesthetic, Kuchar amps up hyper-masculine characters such as gladiators, cavemen, soldiers, or bodybuilders, to craft homo-erotic, playful illustrations.These soft-core illustrations seamlessly align with Kuchar’s tongue and cheek film oeuvre. Today, Kuchar's brawny beings continue to traverse the worlds of comic books and cameras. ...

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Deep Sea Danger, 2018
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Deep Sea Danger, 2018
76 x 57cm
Omens and Wishes
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Omens and Wishes, 2018
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Bawdy Brutes, 2018
105.41 x 74.93cm
Poster Boy
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Poster Boy, 1980-2000
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Battle Boys
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Battle Boys, 1990
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A Monster's Gift
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A Monster's Gift, 2018
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Homosapien
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Omens and Wishes
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Omens and Wishes, 2018
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Eden Park
Mike Kuchar
Eden Park, 2023
61 x 45.5cm
Hot Stuff
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Hot Stuff, 2023
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Atomic Utopia
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François Ghebaly
Gallery
François Ghebaly
Los Angeles, New York City

Since 2009, François Ghebaly has presented an innovative, eclectic program of Los Angeles-based and international artists. With a history of identifying and championing diverse voices and emerging talent, the gallery’s roster has grown to include 27 artists and 2 artist estates, ranging from early career, such as Sharif Farrag and Ludovic Nkoth, to mid-career, like Christine Sun Kim, Meriem Bennani, Kelly Akashi, Farah Al Qasimi, and Genesis Belanger, to well established, including Sayre Gomez, Kathleen Ryan, Neïl Beloufa and Candice Lin as well as underground legends, like Patrick Jackson and Mike Kuchar. The gallery advances the reach of its artists’ visions by publishing exhibition catalogues and producing artist editions. Located since 2013 in a 12,000 square foot warehouse space in Downtown Los Angeles, the gallery is a mainstay of the burgeoning Arts District community, and recently expanded to New York's Lower East Side. François Ghebaly’s program demonstrates a commitment to challenging work across all media and to fostering the progressive, boundary-pushing practices of its artists. ...

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