Art Opening: Barnaby Furnas
Hey kids do you like violence? How about bloody carnage on canvas? Tonight head over to the MCA to view the visceral paintings of Barnaby Furnas, the 31 year old New York artist who creates mural sized battles between the figurative and abstract. Furnas' first major notoriety came for ecstatic battle scenes, gory and celebratory shootouts between variously exploding American civil war era icons, such as Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. His most recent paintings have done away with any human reference aside from that most vital fluid of life, blood. In these large-scale paintings, which often stretch the entirety of a room, and then some, and can take weeks' ju...Read more