Mad Art Gallery proudly presents Socially Awkward; the delightfully subversive works of Jert and Ron Buechele. This exhibit openson Friday, February 3, 2012, with a free reception from 7:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. and continues through February 28, 2012. Kansas City DJ's Dropout Boogie will be playing the opening. They will be spinning raw soul and mod records.
Jert is artist Jeremy Townsend. Originally from the St. Louis area, and currently residing in Atlanta, Jert spent a decade traveling from theme park to theme park drawing caricatures for a living. Once released from that purgatory, Jert focused his work on the nature of crass, absurdist pop culture. Jert's work has jokingly been described by Hate Comics creator Peter Bagge as "... like Mort Walker('s) only weirder, like Mort Walker for hippies." German painter and new pop realist Sebastian Kruger once declared, "Jert is his own church." Using a mixture of watercolors, acrylics, and inks on board and paper, Jert's work is the perfect comrade-in-arms for the paintings of Mad Art Gallery owner, Ron Buechele. Buechele's new paintings, his first new work in over four years, explore the seven deadly sins. He creates a convenient guide to eternal damnation. The seven deadly sins are those transgressions which are fatal to spiritual progress. You probably commit some of them every day without thinking about the rich tradition of eternal damnation in which you are participating. Here is your reminder.
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