CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW. LA
By Michael Wright
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| Jay Stuckey, Baptism (2018). Oil on canvas, 44 x 60 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Anat Egbi. |
After the sardonic humor of
Anat Ebgi’s "Worshipping Sticks and Stones" registers, the show’s deeper interests begin to emerge: violence toward the body and the rituals that negotiate it. The artists of this group show approach these themes with various levels of seriousness and diverse subject matter, a fact that complicates the exhibition as a whole. In oil paintings and plush totems, Jay Stuckey’s figures baptize and assault one another with the same gleeful faces, creating intentional dissonance between the cartoonish surface and serious archetypes of human behavior.
“Worshipping Sticks and Stones” runs from November 3–December 8, 2018 at Anat Ebgi (2660 S. La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90034). [
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| Worshipping Sticks and Stones (2018) (installation view). Image courtesy of Anat Egbi. |
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| Penny Slinger
Gnostic Entrance, 1976-1977
Collage on board, framed
32 x 31.25 inches |
