Big up the homie Robert Bowen getting his proper propers with a 10-page piece in the new Juxtapoz. From Alex Pardee’s intro: ….within days I discovered Robert was less Pee-Wee Herman and more David Cronenberg. Employing Lincoln Continental, Odd Nerdum, and tentacle fetish with a healthy diet of Play-Doh, Christian Brothers, Salvador Dali, Sid and Marty Kroft, exploitation movies, and Jimboy’s Tacos, Robert had one of the most unique and shocking approaches to art that I had ever seen at the time. Simply put, he painted what he wanted and how he wanted. That was it. And he was completely unapologetic. It baffled me! In a time when alternative art was beginning to become marketable at the smallest level and everyone, including myself, was trying to paint what other people would like, hoping that our super edgy half-assed, big-pants, big-hands characters with spray cans would be the next big thing, Robert was publicly painting flowers with vaginas and deformed blobs with dental problems. It fascinated me, and changed the way I approached my art. Check out Robert’s website and cop some prints while they’re still affordable. 
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Big up the homie Robert Bowen getting his proper propers with a 10-page piece in the new Juxtapoz. From Alex Pardee’s intro:

….within days I discovered Robert was less Pee-Wee Herman and more David Cronenberg. Employing Lincoln Continental, Odd Nerdum, and tentacle fetish with a healthy diet of Play-Doh, Christian Brothers, Salvador Dali, Sid and Marty Kroft, exploitation movies, and Jimboy’s Tacos, Robert had one of the most unique and shocking approaches to art that I had ever seen at the time. Simply put, he painted what he wanted and how he wanted. That was it. And he was completely unapologetic. It baffled me! In a time when alternative art was beginning to become marketable at the smallest level and everyone, including myself, was trying to paint what other people would like, hoping that our super edgy half-assed, big-pants, big-hands characters with spray cans would be the next big thing, Robert was publicly painting flowers with vaginas and deformed blobs with dental problems. It fascinated me, and changed the way I approached my art.

Check out Robert’s website and cop some prints while they’re still affordable. 

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