Black Maria Gallery
3137 Glendale Blvd
323.660.9393
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Jeff McMillan, Shirin Cordoba, Courtesy Black Maria Gallery
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Opens Saturday Sep 27, 2008 (7–10:30pm)
Sep 27, 2008 – Oct 18, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (noon–6pm)
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Not unlike impressionism, "low brow" was a label with initially negative connotations affixed to a group of artists reacting against then-mainstream art. Merging their vision with the outsider-friendly, music- and tattoo-influenced cultures that inspired them, they made art more accessible to the public. Now, as so often happens when that which is alternative becomes popular, this school of thinking flirts with the cerebral exclusivity against which it first rebelled. Black Maria takes matters into its own hands with No Brow, a group show featuring Ken Garduno, Jennybird Alcantara, and Brooks Salzwedel among others seeking to reclaim the original goals of the low-brow movement: non-commercial art that privileges raw human experience above esoteric concepts.
