Popped in to Fuse Gallery and peeped out Travis Louies show over the weekend. Travis is a serious talent with a totally unique and child like style that incorporates lots of scary yet playful imagery. His work is some where in the realm of Edward Gorey or Maurice Sendak in a sense. Eric Foss who runs Fuse introduced me to Travis’ work a few years ago and I’ve been a fan ever since. He’s a NYC original and a nice guy. His work is really cool to me check it out:
I dig his whole aesthetic. He has a adjoining story with each character to guide you along. This group of paintings was inspired by trips to his grand parents home on Mulberry street as a kid. All of the characters depicted in this show are based on the tenants in this building and were invented by Travis many moons ago. I dig his rhetoric it’s really engaging and I dig the fact he created this entire netherworld of characters.
For more pics and words ya know the drill peep my site:
http://www.danteross.com/blogs/dante/2008/12/01/travis-louiestrange-neighbors-fuse-gallery/
