April/May 2010 - Marshall Weber: "Celebrity Death Cult"

The second Booklyn Art Gallery exhibition featured the enigmatic drawings of Marshall Weber.

BaaderMeinhofJoint, 2010

Celebrity Death Cult
Collaged rubbing drawings by Marshall Weber.
April 15th-June 1st 2010

Cross Bearing Arms, 2009

Weber travels globally rubbing artists' and revolutionaries' gravestones and memorials and other surfaces. Returning to his studio he then collages and paints these gatherings into stark vivid typographical compositions.

The results of Weber's exertions are weird homages to a diverse group of celebrities. The drawings are evocative because of their committed visceral and performative nature and engaging as aesthetic markers of the parallel obsessions that the viewer brings to the gallery.

The exhibit includes pieces about the Baader-Meinhof group, Henry Geldzahler, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and a large homage to the now extinct Passenger Pigeon.

Drawings from the Celebrity Death Cult series have recently been exhibited at: Courtauld Art Institute in London,
the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach Am Main in Germany,
and are featured at the Southern Graphics Council/Philographica exhibition at the University of the Arts' Hamilton and Arronson Galleries in Philadelphia.

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