- The Four Tasks of Psyche
- 2011
- Polychromed wood
- 72x36x64cm
- Courtesy: China Art Objects Galleries
Paul Cherwick
Born: 1974
Lives: Los Angeles
Shown by: China Art Objects Galleries G21
The sculptural world-in-miniature created by Paul Cherwick is filled by a motley crew – from a naked hiker (Heading to the Carbuncle, 2011) to a man sporting a pirate hat and vest and holding a banana in one hand and a soda in the other (Double Gulp, 2011) to acorns dancing on milk crates (Trudelutt, 2008) – who mine an aesthetic somewhere between primitivist carving and sleeker, psychotropic references. Using the Technicolor inhabitants of his adopted LA as an inspiration, the artist employs an anachronistic method that clashes happily with his wide-ranging source material. In his solo show in 2010 at China Art Objects, Los Angeles, portraits of Larry Gagosian, Mark Twain and Luke Perry hung alongside an owl’s scalp and a two-faced man; Cherwick’s tongue-in-cheek approach is further exemplified by the works’ dimensions, given as ‘approximately plum size’. (PT)
