| Bunny Gunner owners Susie and Juan Thorp
have done it again—pulling together yet another stylishly
fun show, this time from artist/sculptor/designer Jay Merryweather.
This exhibit features the artist’s paintings alone—and
it’s a colorful palette of eye candy. The historical
twist, Obama Lincoln, a melding of the two president’s
faces with a dripping red, white and blue streak down the
center is not as cliché as it might sound; it seems
less that Merryweather is creating a tribute or trying to
subvert the oft-linked men, but instead, somberly pointing
out the heavy weight of such a comparison. Another president
gets an update in Washington’s Grill, where we see
the Founding Father fitted with a snappy new set of gold
teeth—and all we can say is a very patriotic, hell
to the yes. Other pieces include a series of caricatured
young women with different headcaps—Byzantine Child
sports a radiant globe, Aquarius tries on the galaxy and
Roly Poly Fishead girl (you can guess) would make even Billy
Mumy proud. There’s plenty more where these came from—so
eat them up, yum!
Jay Merryweather’s “Free Rein” exhibition
at Bunny Gunner Gallery, 266 W. Second St., Pomona, (909)
868-2808; www.bunnygunner.com. Open Tues–Sat, 10AM–7PM.
Free. Thru July 6.
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