KEEP IT REAL

KEEP IT REAL: The Artwork of Mr. Brainwash Presented by New River Fine Art delivers a sumptuous array of graphic reverence dedicated to the prevailing king of conducive play.

Mr. Brainwash wrangles with our collective psyche to commandeer our mind’s eye as he thrusts forward a vivacious encounter of his fragmented explosions of popular culture psychedelia. The showmanship and personality flows from hand to canvas in such an unequivocal way, that nothing is obscured in the transmission of transcendental pop art pizzazz. The viewer steps into an alternative macrocosm of bold color, graffiti style markings, and splatter paint pièce de resistance.  Black stencils, silkscreened iconology, and audacious street art aesthetics gyrate and pulse within an indefatigable composition.

Undertones of Norman Rockwell inspired, but rebellious American nostalgia harmonizes within the congruence of the artworks selected for the exhibition. Mr. Brainwash deliberately channels perceptible Banksy eye-candy. The depictions of Balloon Girl, Flower Thrower, Albert Einstein, Mickey Mouse, and others are beseeched by his imperious magnetism, and conjured like visual street art stencil apparitions through some sort of pop art séance.  

Faux tags, throw-ups, and fabricated graffiti are amok, but are juxtaposed with one liner motivational quotes. They intermingle like contentions of encouragement. Lacking any kind of overt and contemptuous tones, the farce is more in line with ironic whimsy, than embezzled imagery.

Mr. Brainwash has mastered the art of bespattering his artwork with an anti-bantam genuflection. Held in high regard, the signature aesthetic is exclusory, but abetted by certain Street Art compatriots.

In “Everyday Life”, a front facing chimpanzee on a 1950’s Coca Cola freezer relic, is poised and blatantly giving a visual voice to a “Follow Your Dream” defacement turned embraced mantra;  spray painted like a Bedtime for Bonzo dictum.

“Bansky Thrower”, a 34 x 30-inch silkscreen and mixed media on vandalized canvas and frame, has no qualms sampling the Banksy Flower Thrower, complete with his civil society black bandana that masks the irrelevancy of individual identity. Instead of flowers or a (Molotov cocktail), Mr. Brainwash interjects a sense of haughtiness. Contemporary literature plays substitute within the compositional equation, an Art for Dummies instructional is an easily inconspicuous visual epigram volleyed to both viewer and fictitious inquisitor.

“Chaplin”, a 44 x 30-inch silkscreen and mixed media on canvas, emphasizes the reigning king of silent film era comedy, English comedian, Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin is considered one of the most important and influential figures in the history of comedic film. In Mr. Brainwash’s adulation to this comedic genius, the notorious toothbrush moustache retains center stage, bolstering the hilarious smirk of inculpability.

An eclectic mix of over two dozen Vandalized Canvases, silkscreen and mixed media on canvas and paper, KEEP IT REAL: The Artwork of Mr. Brainwash Presented by New River Fine Art shimmers in a complex, but coherent manifestation of ravaging splatter painted humorous mischievousness. 

More anticommercial pageantry than glorified gaudiness, KEEP IT REAL is a more matured and obvious au courant aesthetic. New River Fine Art hosts an exhibition that propels the ordinary ogler into an artistic fever of pop punk piquancy.

New River Fine Art 822 E. Las Olas Blvd. Fort Lauderdale, Fl. 33301

www.newriverfineart.com