Cartoonish Expressionist Todd James opened his new exhibition in NYC last night at the Gering Lopez Gallery, titled “King Of The Wild Frontier”, the show features iconic badass guerrillas with Kalashnikovs and other weaponry on large canvases.
The artist with “King Of The Wild Frontier” pays a tribute to those who resist the invisible power structures that govern us. His colourscapes help us see that the world can’t easily be defined in black and white terms.
The exhibition also has a nice addition called the “Vandal’s Bedroom”, an installation-object first shown at MOCA’s “Art In The Streets.” The piece is full of cluttered images of a teenage deviant’s “bedroom-turned-graffiti-battle-station” that can be seen through the glass partition.
Somali pirates as nouveau pop art pin-ups? It’s Todd James being naughty again. He somehow manages to make a bunch of extortionists, kidnappers and murderers seem rather glamorous.
If you stop by NYC, “King Of The Wild Frontier” will run at Gering & Lopez Gallery in NYC until April 21.
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