JACKSON HOLE NEWS & GUIDE
By Frances Moody
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| "RUN DMC" Silkscreen W gold leaf 30x22 2010 ED. 22/5 24kt |
WYOMING---A society persecuted by the Roman Empire, early Christians were considered outcasts. Eighteen hundred years later,
Aaron Wallis says gangsters and drug dealers are the people who are harassed by legal authority. Playing with the idea of current-day counterculture and how it relates to the past, printmaker Wallis has taken the images of what he calls today’s alternative saints and has placed them in the context of early Christian art for his “
Street Bible Series.” [
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The Rose at Pink Garter Theatre: “Street Bible 2: Da Return,” (Ends September) 50 West Broadway, Jackson Hole, WY; (307) 733-1500; pinkgartertheatre.com.
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| Aaron Wallis places images of gangsters and drug lords in the context of Christian iconography and the illuminated manuscript. This silkscreen and woodcut with gold leaf depicts Ricky Donnell Ross, a 1980s LA coke dealer. |
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