Liz Brown: OMGWTF November 13, 2008

Like the Spice is pleased to present Liz Brown: OMGWTF, an exhibition of the artist’s retro-futuristic paintings and drawings. The opening reception is Friday, November 14th 2008, at 6:30pm.

Borrowing freely from the history, advertising, sarcasm, fantasy, banality and the technology of our shiny new post-cultural millennium, Brown conflates landscape, advertising layout, and film still, distilling late capitalist popular anxiety into a WTF exuberance. Like a post-apocalyptic shopping scene from a zombie movie, Brown’s works are at once menacing and celebratory.

With one foot firmly planted in our McMansion-by-Macy’s-Martha-Stewart-Collection reality, Brown imagines a world where corporate fantasies become detached from products and inhabit our collective unconscious. With no public place left to hide from corporate titillation, all that is left is to imagine our own adspace, where fantasies are as slick as Disney movies yet as personal as teenage diaries. This seemingly abandoned world is host to 70’s science fiction hallucinations, custom yachts with neon sails, taxidermied mountain goats in outdoor dioramas and blimps hawking “primal agendas” and “final frontiers”.

Official Website: http://www.likethespice.com