Fritz Welch at Cueto Project
From January 17-February 16, Cueto Project presents the work of Brooklyn-based artist Fritz Welch.
Welch’s solo show, entitled “Under Your Wet Blanket,”:
deals with two ongoing conceptual themes for the artist: Revolution Blues and Vampire Blues. The former refers to a fundamental interest in activist occupation of space and direct political action. The latter is concerned with global dysfunction and ecological disaster.
The concept of the show originates in a series of drawings inspired by an early visual memory. Real or imagined, a photograph of Native American activists sitting on a bulldozer with rifles in hand led to a chain reaction opening interlocking cyphers in the artist’s imagination. The impending references have come to include the prophetic writings of Philip K. Dick, the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz, The Night of the Living Dead, Viktor Rogy’s final film Suffering Is The Fastest Horse, Paolo Ucello’s Battle of San Romano, Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading and a continually growing collection.
His work addresses the formal relationship between a diversity of objects, images and materials, as well as the occult potential of the seemingly disconnected ideas contained in their hybridized combinations. In short, Welch’s approach includes an ever-mutating investigation into the origins of his ‘Anarchist Soul Junk’.
Welch is also an accomplished musician, a member of such groups as the Peeesseye (psi) and Pee in My Face with Surgery. He has exhibited extensively in Europe and the US, and is a prolific creative force to be reckoned with.
Cueto Project is located at 551 West 21st Street.
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