Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Music news KISS guitarist Paul Stanley goes emo for September art show
Posted by Chad Radford @ChadRad on Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:34 AM
In September long-time KISS guitarist and vocalist Paul Stanley will present two free exhibitions of his paintings at two different Wentworth Gallery locations in Phipps Plaza (Fri., Sept. 19) and at The Perimeter Mall (Sat., Sept. 20).
According to a recent press release, “Stanley creates portraits and abstracts that are emotionally charged compositions. He aims to maximize the direct, physical impact of his paintings through scale, texture, color and simplicity of images."
Yeah right. It's hard to believe that the man who once fronted KISS, the guy who personally delivered shock metal to suburban American homes in the '70s, and made religious zealots and parents groups wet themselves in fear is now churning out paintings such as these two um... lovely pieces, respectively titled Peace and All You Need Is Love (to see the images click "read the rest of this entry"). Really, these two paintings kind of speaks for themselves, but there are plenty of other images of stars and the statue of liberty over at Mr. Stanley's website.
Wentworth Gallery's site makes the bold claim that "One sees in Paul's abstracts the influences of Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevich, Paul Klee and Mark Rothko."
Really where?
Knights In Satan's Service this is not...
Exhibitions times and locations for the show are as follows:
Friday, September 19, 6-9 p.m.
Wentworth Gallery
Phipps Plaza
3500 Peachtree Road
Atlanta, GA
404-233-0903
Saturday, September 20, 6-9 p.m.
Wentworth Gallery
Perimeter Mall
4400 Ashford Dunwoody Road
Atlanta, GA
770-913-0641
All images come courtesy of www.paulstanley.com
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