Drawn and Quartered

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• Howdy Doody
• Sharpie Permanent Markers
• War and Conflict
• Visual Arts

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Evri Kwong’s art deals with violence — gang, domestic, wartime, run-of-the-mill, extraordinary. Though he depicts scenes with narratives ripped from the headlines, his drawing-paintings are not bloody. They’re not even particularly scary (if you don’t know how to look at them), because all involved, from the perpetrators to the victims to the onlookers, are marionette-style puppets, sketched with a Sharpie. Violence inflicted on Howdy Doody isn’t particularly frightening, is it? Again, if you don’t know how to look, no. But take a moment with the work in “No Fooling”: Just beneath the comics-like surface, it’s chilling. Like parts of America, you might say. If you need a hint, Kwong often includes a little, exquisite landscape painting set within the larger work, to offset the brutality. Like candy-coated cable TV, you might say.
April 1-30, 2010