Juxtapoz Magazine – Saturday Morning Fever: Griffin Goodman @ All Star Press, Chicago

For their initially solo-show of the yr, All Star Press presents Saturday Morning Fever showcasing the functions of Griffin Goodman. Saturday Early morning Fever is a collection of do the job that jumps into Goodman’s childhood: the intimate ritual of waking up early on Saturday, grabbing a sugary bowl of cereal, and cozying up in front of the tv to watch hrs of cartoons. This customary time turned a legitimate type of escapism for Griffin and small children all over the earth. Just like the cartoons he watched as a child, his paintings, at initially look, may well feel brilliant and sugar coated, but as the viewer digests these illustrations or photos they bit by bit unravel them selves to be a very little darker in humor and actuality. Through cost-free-sort juxtapositions of appropriated imagery sourced from well-known lifestyle and artwork historical past, the artist produces bricolages that discuss to the two the hyper-layered development of Photoshop documents and the densely metaphoric composition of Pop Art.

At a youthful age, Griffin’s mom released him to the comedy of the Marx Brothers, The A few Stooges, the figures of Sid and Marty Krofft, and Saturday morning cartoons. The knowledge of viewing these applications, contrasted with the urban landscape of his household-developed Detroit, formed his burgeoning aesthetic and informs his apply nowadays.

For numerous adults across the entire world, they will by no means fail to remember the joy that Saturday Early morning Cartoons brought to them, and how popular it was in childhood: While kids nowadays have accessibility to virtually all cartoons at any time they want, some will never ever have the experience of waking up on Saturday Mornings, turning on the Tv, grabbing that huge bowl of cereal, and waiting around for their most loved cartoon to start off. This clearly show is dedicated to all those grownups who even now really feel like a child inside of. To never ever permit your internal child vanish.