Boogie Man, 2006 - Barnaby Furnas
About the Work
About Boogie Man
One of Barnaby Furnas's first experiments with printmaking, the Boogie Man etching uses the vibrant fluidity characteristic of his oil and watercolor paintings. Sketched-out in broad strokes, the form of a presumed bogeyman explodes in firework-like eruptions of fantastic ...Read More
One of Barnaby Furnas's first experiments with printmaking, the Boogie Man etching uses the vibrant fluidity characteristic of his oil and watercolor paintings. Sketched-out in broad strokes, the form of a presumed bogeyman explodes in firework-like eruptions of fantastic and gory colors, playing out a child's cathartic revenge fantasy on the monstrous, terrorizing figure. By combining the strategies of cartooning with the decadence of high art, Furnas flirts with abstraction and design, entrenching his hyper-contemporary scenes in historical tradition.Read Less
About the Artist
About Barnaby Furnas
Barnaby Furnas grew up a teenage graffiti artist at a Quaker-based commune in Philadelphia. After graduate school, he burst onto the art scene with paintings ...Read More
Barnaby Furnas grew up a teenage graffiti artist at a Quaker-based commune in Philadelphia. After graduate school, he burst onto the art scene with paintings depicting American Civil War battles infused with a cartoon sensibility: riots of motion and pigment evoke violent blood splatters, dismemberments, and attention-grabbing "retinal sizzle." Furnas deftly merges his conflation of fantasy and history with his formalist concerns of material realism and a guerilla misuse of watercolor. From portraits of well-to-do nicotine addicts to epic-sized landscapes of floods of blood to the escalating energy of rock concerts, Furnas conjures states of ecstasy as both joy and agony.Read Less
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Description
Four color etching with aquatint and monoprint.Authentication
Signed by the artist on recto.Shipping
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