NYC artist Michael Mararian sent me an e-mail about his new show that just opened at Corey Helford Gallery in LA. And thank God. I wish the rest of you would give that a try. Save me the 8 years that I spend every day tracking down good work. True, I might not like your stuff, but I won’t tell you that. I’ll just let it pass on by. It’s like hitting on someone in a bar; either it works out or it doesn’t, no one gets hurt from trying. If Mararian’s work came up to me in a bar it would clearly be getting lucky. Or I would run the hell away. It’s hard to tell. In his own words, Mararian’s Inky Dreadfuls “is like the sensibilities of Edward Gorey meets the Americana of Norman Rockwell,” and I’m gonna throw in: with the draftsmanship of Durer. In his new show titled Phobias, Foibles & Fiends, M.M. takes on the world of fear and folly with a cast of morose moppets (dude, I am hitting the alliteration hard today). The works are all black and white brilliance except for the occasional blood red or infernal fiery orange, and many come in their own ornate Edwardian frames. There are still a few available for you to purchase and hang above your steampunk LCD TV. That’s right, I mocked steampunk. Now take off those waistcoats, assholes.

M. Mararian’s Inky Dreadfuls

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