James Marshall (Dalek) / Overweight

James Marshall (Dalek), Untitled 2008.3, 2008. Acrylic on panel. 30 X 30 in.

May 17 to June 21, 2008
Opening Reception for the Artist
Saturday, May 17, 6:00-8:00pm


Irvine Contemporary is pleased to present James Marshall (Dalek) in his only 2008 solo exhibition, Overweight.

After many years of thinking about American culture, high and low, James Marshall has developed what he considers his most ambitious series of new works. His new body of work revels in a profusion and hyper-abundance of color and planes of space: the familiar lines and iconic “Space Monkey” references that defined his earlier work are only a starting point for a new series of meditations on the push and pull of forces he sees in contemporary life.

Working largely intuitively and organically, he allows each painting to become a new discovery, and the ongoing series of discoveries that defined his career have now led him far beyond his beginnings when, right out of art school, he found a new way to merge street art, cartoons, Japanese pop, and the energy of the urban punk scene. A major turning point in Marshall’s studio practice was working as Takashi Murakami’s assistant in 2001. He now goes far beyond Murakami’s “superflat” to a kaleidoscopic play of space and color that embodies the competing and conflicting forces in today’s world.

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