{"id":45564,"date":"2022-07-27T13:46:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=45564"},"modified":"2022-07-27T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T20:43:36","slug":"iggy-capra-seasons-greetings-et-al-san-francisco-thru-sept-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2022\/07\/27\/iggy-capra-seasons-greetings-et-al-san-francisco-thru-sept-3\/","title":{"rendered":"~IGGY CAPRA . . ‘SEASONS GREETINGS’ \/ Et al \/ SAN FRANCISCO \/ thru SEPT 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

psychedelic screaming . . . into the dark.<\/p>\n

RE: BENNY MERRIS, NYC \/ IGGY CAPRA, S.F.
\nboth follow realist, naturalist photography, which they have respectively enhanced with either paint or theater, & based around their own IRL body \/ into a hyper visual, if not outright . . fevered nightmare \/ of . . our collective earthly reality.<\/p>\n

we actually have a really nice – creative sync-up \/ going on right now . .
\nbetween the East Coast USA, & the West Coast USA !!
\nhow fun !!
\nsome random meeting of the minds \/ resulting in some very, very beautiful bi-coastal art world harmony . .
\nnot to mention, a challenging dialog.
\neach artist showcasing, in his resolute own way \/ absolutely brilliant, original & dynamic \/ staged color photographs \/ meets future natural world narrative. wake up world !!
\nCindy Sherman, not. not anywhere near so cloying, so relentlessly self-centered.
\nbut, maybe just better. and, just what just what we need:
\na next gen \/ new wave . . shout-out to a world, the only one we have, ultra deep space telescopes and all, and which the head of the U.N. \/ United Nations says: “is on suicidal climate path.”
\nya think ?<\/p>\n

we have BENNY MERRIS on the East Coast<\/strong>, thrusting photos<\/strong> of almost sly, ‘decoy’ images of his (mostly) wildly painted arms & hands \/ camouflaged into or popping up \/ against various seasonal natural scenarios \/ at the big summer group show: ‘Painting As Is II’, NATHALIE KARG GALLERY<\/a>, thru Aug 26, and which was curated by TIM WILSON & HEIDI HAHN \/
\nand, in a one person show, ‘BENNY MERRIS: flash!’, at HEROES GALLERY<\/a>, also downtown, and running thru AUG 6. <\/p>\n

while, on the West Coast, in San Francisco . . we have: the equally screaming, realist almost ‘bad dream’ photos of IGGY CAPRA<\/strong>, which also incorporate his own body, swathed in very poignant, almost psychedelic theatricality, emitting a blunt, almost kabuki-like scream . . for help.
\n‘HELLO: this world. your world \/ S.O.S. please send help !!’<\/p>\n

I mean, wouldn’t it have been super <\/strong>funny . . if that James Webb telescope had sent back some hyper-color, deep space photos, of some little alien, maybe even a Star Wars intergalactic bar patron, or .. what about a classic primal biblical character in flowing robes, and a long beard . . holding up a sign that said: “morons go back, and focus on your own planet.” <\/p>\n

IGGY CAPRA, ‘SEASONS GREETINGS’,
\nJULY 23 – SEPT 3, 2022
\nET AL GALLERY<\/a>, 620 Kearny St., San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n

or: ‘The Scream’, that everyone knows – but nobody . . listens to ?!!<\/p>\n

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psychedelic screaming . . . into the dark. RE: BENNY MERRIS, NYC \/ IGGY CAPRA, S.F. both follow realist, naturalist photography, which they have respectively enhanced with either paint or theater, & based around their own IRL body \/ into a hyper visual, if not outright . . fevered nightmare \/ of . . our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45564"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45576,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45564\/revisions\/45576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}