Such social awareness is on best display here in the several works by Noah Lyon (www.retardriot.com). In the gallery window is his most widely distributed image, Ronald McHitler, which has been dispersed across the Internet. The familiar clown with the red Afro here is more dignified than usual, wearing a scowl, a tie, and a daub of a mustache that the title tells you is not aping Charlie Chaplin. In Life Before Terror, a small passenger airplane is traveling out of the upper right of an otherwise blank sky-blue canvas. Although similar minimalist works of his are shown, jam-packed imagery is equally typical for Lyon. Welcome to the Jungle and The United States of Anarchy are both masses of hundreds of black-and-white cartoon inventions. Few of the drawings overlap, so we take each on its own: skulls and toothy expressions of concern recur, as does doodle pad surrealism, such as walking heads and raspberry-like masses of eyeballs. As with the two-tier pricing noted above, while the first work will set you back $7000, the latter is only $200 in an edition of 100.
This Gallery Agniel show is a good reminder that for all the shallowness and limitations of the pop culture we’re immersed in, artful connections can be made — and made available.
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