Bombs and Babes

one of Marshall's really cool prints

I'm curating a show at ARTspace in January called Bombs and Babes, featuring the art of printmaker Marshall Heaton. Marshall taught me printmaking a few years ago, and his work has always intrigued me. He covers many different subject matters, including war and women. The above image will be one of the featured works in the show.

We are working on a way to use barbed or razor wire as part of the exhibition. Marshall will speak about nosecone art, blonde bombshells, and the contrast of war and women (hard and soft, death and life, etc). I love how he juxtaposes the two subjects and creates a darkly humourous bent. He insists that people should not take art too seriously and that art essay "gobbledy gook" drives him crazy.

His work has some similarities with mine, which is why this show resonates with me so much. The opening night will be January 15th at 6pm, as the first stop in the annual Winter ARTcrawl (this time, with a 'surrealist' theme to celebrate the life of Yves Tanguy who died on that date in 1955). Gotta love the marketing tag....."have a surreal good time!"