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Exhibition: Ron English – Skin Deep: Post-Instinctual Afterthoughts On Psychological Portraiture

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It’s been a while since Ron English was last in London hasn’t it? He’s back at the Lazarides Gallery on Rathbone Place with a new exhibition titled, ready for it, “Skin Deep: Post-Instinctual Afterthoughts On Psychological Portraiture”

From the Laz site:
“Painter, Pundit and Prankster Ron English presents Skin Deep, an exploration of the intersections, discrepancies and synchronicities of personal mythologies on display in our public personas. The exhibition presents multi-layered portraits of some of his most iconic characters, tracing the arc of their inner lives.

Often using his children as models, English chronicles the soul’s sojourn through Pop dioramas of fear and appetite, aspiration and rage. While paying homage to the great art before him, English maintains his very personal point of view, transforming the public to intimate and the universal to specific.

Using a mixture of imagery, medium and process referenced from great masters such as Warhol, Pollack and Picasso, combined with irreverent cherry-picking of populist totems from fast food to cartoons, English creates complex running narratives of his many alter-egos butting headfirst into the Grand Illusion, where unstated cultural norms are exposed and analyzed”

The exhibition opens on 24th June and runs right through till the 21st July 2011
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  1. WHY WOULD SOMEONE HAVE UTTERS ON THEIR BREAST THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE MY YOUNG DAUGHTER JUST SAW THIS AND IS ASKING ME QUESTIONS DAMN U TO HELL.

    It is well drawn though, props to you.

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