Comic Future opens at Ballroom Marfa on Friday!

Our friends at Ballroom Marfa are opening a new exhibit this Friday...read information on the show from their website:

"COMIC FUTURE

Curated by Fairfax Dorn

27 September 2013 through 26 January 2014
Artists:

Walead Beshty
Liz Craft
Aaron Curry
Carroll Dunham
Arturo Herrera
Mike Kelley
Paul McCarthy
Erik Parker
Sigmar Polke
Peter Saul
Dana Schutz
Michael Williams
Sue Williams

Comic Future features work by artists who employ the language of various and discordant approaches such as abstraction and figuration to twist representation of their immediate environment thereby imbricating a skewed, often apocalyptic vision of the future.
Showcasing works from the 1960s through 2013, the exhibition surveys political satire and cultural commentary through art movements ranging from capitalist realism to contemporary pop art. The works include early drawings by Sigmar Polke, collage by Walead Beshty, painting by Carroll Dunham and Peter Saul, alongside newer works by Dana Schutz, Sue Williams, Michael Williams and Erik Parker. Sculpture by Aaron Curry, Liz Craft and Mike Kelley. A Ballroom-commissioned site-specific wall installation by Arturo Herrera will complete the show.
Drawing from the art-historical lineage of cubism, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Comic Future is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is about the absurdities which define the perils of human evolution. The exhibition will be on view September 27, 2013 through January 26, 2014."

After the opening, they invite everyone for a free community dinner, catered by Future Shark, and held under the shade structure on Highland in the middle of Marfa! 

Join us after the opening for a free community dinner catered by Future Shark at the shade structure in the middle of Marfa on Highland. - See more at: http://texasmountaintrail.com/events/marfa-comic-future-opening-ballroom-marfa-and-free-community-dinner-marfa-shade-structure#sthash.EJnS62YJ.dpuf

Join us after the opening for a free community dinner catered by Future Shark at the shade structure in the middle of Marfa on Highland. - See more at: http://texasmountaintrail.com/events/marfa-comic-future-opening-ballroom-marfa-and-free-community-dinner-marfa-shade-structure#sthash.EJnS62YJ.dpuf