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Two Owls, 2006, 22 X 24", oil on canvas |
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Blue Bear, 2006, 40 X 40", oil on canvas |
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Andy Warhol, 2006, 20 x 20", oil on canvas |
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Stray Dog, 2006, 40 x 45", oil on canvas |
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NYC Park, 2006, 40 X 40", oil on canvas |
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Girl in Forest, 2006, 40 X 40", oil on canvas |
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Witch over Manhattan, 2006, 40 x 45", oil on canvas |
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Pigeon Funeral, 2006, 24 x 36", oil on canvas |
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I know there will always be an island far away, as long as I live – Andre Breton Scooter Laforge's paintings reflect an anxious relationship between inner desires and the ambiguous allure of the real world. Drawing from traditional fable and fantasy and a very contemporary sense of ambient danger, Laforge maps out his own corner of the surrealist landscape, an urbane world where whimsy merges seamlessly with cruelty, glamour with raw sexuality. The effect is touching, surprising, and thoroughly idiosyncratic. The wonderful emerges from the commonplace in his paintings, the fantastic from the drab. Fleeting moments of beauty and joy lighten the visceral banality of the real. Laforge's neo-surrealist paintings — allegorical and post-Freudian, funny and sweetly solemn— reflect a perfect balance of pleasure and peril. Laforge studied painting at University of Arizona and Cooper Union. His work has been shown in exhibitions in New York, San Francisco and New Mexico. |
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