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. 

Robert Bowen w/ Alex Pardee Click the picture above or the link below for a great piece by new Hi-Fructose contributor, and old friend of Babylon Falling, Chris McCreary. Robert Bowen just unveiled a massive, sprawling, and some would say bizarre installation at Old Crow Gallery & Tattoo in Oakland, CA. Over two dozen works are hung en masse, huge canvases mixed with miniatures, each one featuring painstakingly rendered characters set against explosive, evocative backgrounds. The wall they’re on is a threatening black, not a welcoming white, and it’s decorated with disembodied mouths gaping at you with sharpened and rotting teeth. In the paintings you’ll find beautiful and rare animals mingling with guys like Andy Griffith and Mario Lanza, yet lingering throughout is the ever-present spectre of death…it gets you wondering what kind of brain creates an environment such as this. Robert doesn’t much like to talk – and likes even less to talk about himself – but we sat down, opened an expensive bottle of tequila, and tried to get at what it is that makes him do what he does. Read the interview at http://hifructose.com/the-blog/618-an-interview-with-robert-bowen.html
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Robert Bowen w/ Alex Pardee

Click the picture above or the link below for a great piece by new Hi-Fructose contributor, and old friend of Babylon Falling, Chris McCreary.

Robert Bowen just unveiled a massive, sprawling, and some would say bizarre installation at Old Crow Gallery & Tattoo in Oakland, CA. Over two dozen works are hung en masse, huge canvases mixed with miniatures, each one featuring painstakingly rendered characters set against explosive, evocative backgrounds. The wall they’re on is a threatening black, not a welcoming white, and it’s decorated with disembodied mouths gaping at you with sharpened and rotting teeth. In the paintings you’ll find beautiful and rare animals mingling with guys like Andy Griffith and Mario Lanza, yet lingering throughout is the ever-present spectre of death…it gets you wondering what kind of brain creates an environment such as this. Robert doesn’t much like to talk – and likes even less to talk about himself – but we sat down, opened an expensive bottle of tequila, and tried to get at what it is that makes him do what he does.

Read the interview at http://hifructose.com/the-blog/618-an-interview-with-robert-bowen.html