'Bird Toys/Predator' by Ian Francis, 2019
Original show card from the artist's exhibit "Call of the Void," Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 21 - Oct. 26, 2024.
Based on Francis' original 'Bird Toys/Predator' mixed media on wood panel, 2019.
5.5 x 8.5 Inches
14 x 21.6 Centimeters
8 x 10 x 0.8 Inches (framed)
Offset lithograph print on satin premium cardstock.
Show details printed on reverse.
Open Edition (Sold Out).
*Note: Float-framed in UV glass with black (or white) MDF frame molding.
ARTIST BIO
Ian Francis' hyper-intelligent, multi-layered, work is intricate in form and content. It is effortlessly uncomfortable while at the same time dramatically appealing, seemingly insular yet peppered with pan-national references. Figures in intimate situations are illuminated by far-reaching backdrops. Mainstream motifs play out complex, open-ended scenes made with ultra-modern methods.
Francis himself says his work is "about pornography and news reports from warzones rather than sex and death", echoing the atomised and hedonistic nature of modern everyday life.