Honor Fraser is happy to current GO WILD!, a solo exhibition by Kenny Scharf. Scharf’s tenth exhibition with the gallery celebrates the artist’s decades-long-engagement with town of Los Angeles and charts the multifaceted ways in which his signature fashion has imprinted onto the city panorama of Southern California. The exhibition transforms Honor Fraser into an city oasis the place Scharf’s iconic characters and playful imagery dance amidst a backdrop of concrete, palm timber, asphalt, restore retailers, carwashes, and different metropolis infrastructure.
On the coronary heart of GO WILD! guests will discover an immersive, sunlit set up that blurs the boundaries between Scharf’s studio, our constructed surroundings, and the pure world. Paying homage to the artist’s legendary “Cosmic Caverns,” the garden-like set up spills out from the gallery’s central exhibition corridor—overflowing with an abundance of site-specific murals, monumental concrete planters, assemblages of upcycled plastic, and colossal foliage from the artist’s residence and studio.
Towards the backdrop of Scharf’s immersive set up, the artist presents a brand new sequence of tondo work. Scharf’s round canvases of bombastic figures, expressive faces, and jungle-like landscapes have garnered inside acclaim, and are routinely referenced within the artwork historic data of pop artwork and avenue artwork alike. At Honor Fraser, Scharf’s newest sequence of round work revel within the artist’s mastery of expressive mark-making, and directly learn as acquainted pals and fantastical fixtures of Los Angeles’s man-made scenography.
Past the galleries of work and crops, GO WILD! options an intimate studying room the place guests can view a group of artwork proposals and preparatory drawings that Scharf made for public interventions all through Los Angeles. These quasi-artworks are offered beside a wall of archival movies, documenting Scharf as he spray paints the autos in his “KARBOMBZ!” sequence. Now a daily staple of the visible panorama of Southern California’s freeways and roads, Scharf’s “KARBOMBZ!” started as an experiment to maneuver his portray past the studio into town. The ensuing vehicles are testaments of Scharf’s inventive mobility and distinctive buck with custom.
GO WILD! paperwork these many aspects of Scharf’s apply and invitations audiences to discover a vibrant fusion of artwork, and nature, all discovered within the bustling city panorama of Los Angeles.
