Artist Talk: March 2, 11am
Filmmaker Terry Gilliam called Lou Beach, “funny, smart, twisted, brilliant…the greatest collage artist on the planet.” The son of Polish parents displaced by World War II (born Lubicz, thus Lou Beach), he came to California in 1968, began studying the Surrealists, and started making collages from old printed matter. He had his first solo show fifty years ago at the Boston Center for the Arts and afterwards, built a long career creating record album covers and magazine illustrations. He states that his current show at CKG titled, Bewilderness, “is a journal of my dreams and reactions to the tumultuous last few years, with the character OBOY serving as an Everyman who is both a participant and observer in every one of these new works, sometimes obvious, other times hidden à la “Where’s Waldo?” His work has a biting, cerebral, caustic wit that is constructed in humorous, playful layerings that can either disguise, or blatantly tell, sinister stories.