Dichromatosis in a Binary World

Below is a copy of the info from my show last August. The reception was good. The highlight came the night before. As I installed the show I had a great conversation with a dichromat. He enjoyed viewing the work, as well as with the red/blue glasses. It was serendipity that he visit the gallery as I was installing. Our conversation was very valuable to this investigation.

 The Art

of

Tavarus Blackmonster

IN STEREO 

Tavarus Blackmonster makes art that is bold and exciting. His work is influenced by his family and life in Sacramento, CA. Through an interest in visual media such as cartoons, comic books, cinematic production design including Avant Gard film, Independent cinema, Foreign cinema and Film Noir, car and tattoo magazines and progenitors of challenging art the spans the history of Fine Art from The German Expressionists to Philip Guston, Robert Colescott and Peter Saul, Blackmonster’s art is testy, feisty and critical. 

Raising children and committed to his partner Elizabeth who is also an artist, Tavarus Blackmonster is both in awe of the possibilities and complications of art and the possibilities and complications of being an American. Thus, with the perceived privilege that he experiences as a contemporary artist, he tempers spats of purely aesthetic production with periods of intense sociological, cultural and political investigation. Moreover, his practice is broad and specific, much in the way, he supposes, that collectivity can be successful through flexibility and objectivity.

In Stereo, August 13 - September 8, 2016, My Studio, Sacramento, CA, Reception: August 13 @ 6pm

BE THERE OR BE MONO

1. The Great Escape, acrylic on canvas drop cloth, 60 x 60 inch, 2016

2. Cookies Colonial Blues, synthetic polymer paint on linen, 36 x 48 x inch, 2016

3. Victorine and her Pie, acrylic on mirror paper, 42 x 50 inch, 2016

4. The Pie Vendor, synthetic polymer paint on Holo paper, 27 x 37 inch, 2016

5. La Radio Musical, acrylic on Holo paper, 27 x 37 inch, 2016

6. Rubbing and drawing of the painting, Deliciosso, powdered pigment, pastel on 

vellum, 18 x 24 inch, 2016

In Stereo