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Gangster de Muerto mixed media / 2011 |
Every year about this time, a slew of art shows pop up across the country with themes based around The Day of the Dead. One in particular stood out to me last year at Young Blood Gallery in Atlanta with their unique concept for an annual group event. The gallery actually constructs a limited number of wooden coffins to distribute to artists who paint, forge, illustrate, sculpt and otherwise construct their deadicated art. Painlessly enough, through an inquiry with the gallery, they were all too happy to ship a coffin to me gaining me entry into this intriguing exhibit. On Halloween Monday, my coffin for this year's exhibit arrived safe and sound in ATL and will be on display starting this Saturday, November 5th for their annual Day of the Dead exhibit. I'll be rubbing my gorilla glued paws together in anticipation for next year's show and a third coffin but in the mean time, check out these process pictures and what I did this year...
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