Low Brow was a term casually flung at the underground girls-and-hot rods/kounter-kulture art world some years ago, yet most of the incredible art that gets lumped under this term is anything but tasteless or intellectually bereft. Perhaps the term has stuck because many of the “low-brow” artists are indeed a neanderthalian lot obsessed with curvy pin-up girls, drooling, cartoon-y monsters and unfinished, old school hot rods. So…..after prying my eyes away from the several wickedly gorgeous, tatted-up, red-scarfed suicide-y girls in attendance, it was time to check out the art. What's to stop a custom shop pin-stripe professional from going nuts on a slice of Detroit sheet metal torched off a fifty-year old car? Nothing, that's what. And no pesky hot rod owner telling you to tone it down either. These guys like bright, glossy colors and aren't afraid to use them. As do their women, who frequently wind up in the art. Also on the walls were spectacularly decorated skateboard undersides, communist propaganda poster-inspired art, high quality rock show photographs and a few pieces that looked like the curator needed to fill some wall space: “Hey man,….got anything else?” “Well, I got this old one of a cartoon monster driving a hot rod that I did when I was 14….” Lots of artists are listed on the promo, but there's not a heckuvalotta art here. Still, it's definitely worth checking out.
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