“It started out simple enough: a couple glasses of wine, several shots of bourbon, and pondering what would happen if Dr. Seuss, Richard Scarry, and a stable of My Little Ponies each downed a bucket of liquid acid and proceeded to engage in an orgy that spawned a hundred love-children.”
The Lot 44 Gallery invites you to view artist Phloe’s fantastical creations resulting from her stupefied premise. The exhibition shows from January 11th to February 10th, 2009. An artist reception will be held on Thursday, January 14th from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. during the Downtown L.A. Artwalk.
With simple lines that design creatures with elongated or truncated bodies and appendages, Phloe creates Nevermore, a morphology of bastard animals that stare and stand defiantly. Her Nevermore characters posture like a system of clowns that are never more gleeful than when they are at their darkest. They are illustrations on the dichotomy of ponderous gaiety that is her work: all playful yet somber, frilly yet wry. Her fantastical drawing, however, is not in itself a whimsical escapade.
Phloe’s imagination, fueled by Seuss and Scarry as well as a love/hate sensibility with Disney, has always been a wild source for her drawing, but she has recently found a mirror to her work in unseemly high-cost animal-control “silliness” that is taking place now in a tiny island between Antarctica and Australia.* PETA members take notice. As Phloe states:
“Nevermore is the preposterous place where such implausible creatures decided to plop themselves. Nevermore was always a tall tale; until now.”
The Lot 44 Gallery invites you to view the fantastical world created by Phloe impudently roused by the unwary man-made animal control system well in place in the Pacific.” - Lui Sanchez, Curator
PHLOE: Nevermore
Exhibition Dates: Monday, January 11, 2010 – Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Opening Reception: January 14, 2010, 6-9pm
Lot 44 Coffee Gallery
257 S. Spring Street, Suite 115, Los Angeles CA
(213) 626-4646 www.lot44coffee.com
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