Danimal and Jes Seamans: Look Into the Light
@ No Coast
1500 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, February 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, March 7th
It would be too easy to attribute Danimal‘s vertigo-inducing prints to the psychedelic nostalgia that so permeates contemporary art and music. But this is no Fillmore East revival, this is the underground disco of our gay-ass techno-pagan mutant future. Patent-leather lips, x-ray eyes, stiletto boots and clawed fingers swirl in a disembodied haze, and are then pulled together by a joyfully sinister vortex of patterns and shapes, making complex sigils which summon an eternal Halloween.
Similar in spirit, in Jes Seaman‘s world there are no love-ins as we remember them—here woodsy spirits strip to their knee socks and shake their beards all night to Prince. With hair like smoke and scales like water, people, animals, and forces of nature are woven into a palimpsest stirred to life by Seamans’s intricately patterned linework.
Heavily involved in the creative scene in Minneapolis, Seamans and Danimal’s work also reflects the influence of their musical interests and abilities, a multi-disciplinary approach to making that we value at No Coast. Both are also a part of collaborative efforts ranging from designing band posters to hosting queer dance parties. Their work is representative of a community and an attitude that prizes the truly strange, and the urban Midwestern belief that everything is possible.
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