Hey, My Threads Baby! - Lucas Geor
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Thu 13 May 2021 - Sun 30 May 2021
Hey, My Threads Baby! is Lucas Geor's latest solo exhibition at
Brunswick Street Gallery ,
322 Brunswick St, Fitzroy from
13-30 May 2021. An
Opening Night event will be held on
Friday 14 May from 6-9pm. Byron-Bay-based via Sydney and New York, Geor now extends his cheeky and recognisable style of pop culture motifs, often re-imagined through acrylics and spray paint, to his latest series of painting, following a sell-out solo show in Byron Bay last August.
With the works exclusively at
Brunswick Street Gallery explore the transpiring history of bootlegging from its origins in the 1800s with moonshine liquor to its eventual embrace by popular culture, seen in knockoff Gucci suits created by Dapper Dan in Harlem, and the distorted illustrations of beloved Disney characters on Japan's Menko cards. The exhibition connects the practice to cartoons, fashion and advertising, as a collection of colourful paintings that reimagine popular images.
This leads Geor to suggest that everything is in fact a bootlegged copy of something else and asks whether all artists are in fact bootleggers, reinterpreting inspiration in a new and unique context. Geor has always been interested in painting things as he would like to see them, rather than how they actually are. Exploring the theme of bootlegging provides even more inspiration to further indulge this interest.
Don't miss viewing Lucas Geor's latest interpretation of fun and playful perspective. A Sydney native, Geor moved to NY City after completing his Bachelor of Fine Art at COFA, UNSW. His crucial brushstrokes and arbitrary use of colour started to recount the bold lines of the '
wild style' of New York subway graffiti artists, and the abstracted perspectives of Master Cubists like Picasso. His influences are defined by a diverse range of artistic mediums, from the avant-garde to vintage signwriting, advertising and animation. The result is paintings of fine detail, twisted by Geor's tongue in cheek humour and knack for stepping outside convention for a subtle commentary on his surrounding environment.
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