Richard Louderback: Brackish Water
@ Soccer Club Club
2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Opening Friday, January 26th, from 8PM - 11PM
On view through Friday, March 1st
Binary, 2 bodies of work
1. An installation of Evil Eye-themed paintings
2. A selection of various other works
1. Evil Eye Paintings (18)
I love playing with powerful iconography. I start-
ed using the Evil Eye symbol in some larger, more
complicated paintings after coming home from
a trip to Greece.
It started with a blank 22″x22″ stretched linen. I had
an idea for creating a very simple, graphic, pseudo-
spiritual painting: an evil eye peeking through a hole
which would also define a crescent moon shape.
This became a theme in the series.
I layered different colors of pigmented ges-
so. I played around with sanding into them and
over-painting and sanding again at various times,
over and over, and found unexpected subtlety.
2. A Selection of various other works
Chosen by Soccer Club Club. Some slightly older
and some much older.
About the Artist:
Richard Louderback (b.1964) Pisces Super Dragon, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, BA, Illustration (1989). Richard Louderback has done illustration work, both in advertising and editorial, from religious magazines to bank ads and the New York State Lottery to pornographic publications. Larry Flint once said Mr. Louderback was, “extra hot on the salsa scale,†after an illustration of his got Hustler Magazine pulled off half the liquor store shelves of America. Mr. Louderback also created famous street-wear graphics and illustrations, and has also designed sets, props and prosthetics for commercials, music videos and feature films.
He co-designed the Delicious Vinyl Records logo with Matt Dike.
He created the Dust Brothers logo.
He has worked with John Waters a few times, most recently illustrating the
cover of his first novel, Liarmouth.
Mr. Louderback’s fine art has been exhibited internationally, and is included in collections such as The Sarabande Foundation, Tiffany & Co, and Les Soirées Nomades de la Fondation Cartier.
[Image: ‘Merry Bananas’ by Richard Louderback, 2018, oil and acrylic on panel, 36 x 36 inches.]
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