From 24 June Lazarides Gallery will present the first UKexhibition of paintings by painter, pundit and prankster, Ron English. Spanning multiple mediums, Skin Deep is anexploration of the intersections, discrepancies and synchronicities of personal mythologies on display in our public personas.
Painter, Pundit and Prankster Ron English presents Skin Deep. The exhibition presents multi-layered portraits of some of his most iconic characters, tracing the arc of their inner lives.
While paying homage to the great art before him, English maintains his very personal point of view, transforming the public to intimate and the universal to specific.
Using a mixture of imagery, medium and process referenced from great masters such as Warhol, Pollock and Picasso, combined with irreverent cherry-picking of populist totems from fast food to cartoons, English creates complex running narratives of his many alter-egos butting headfirst into the Grand Illusion, where unstated cultural norms are exposed and analysed
This Ron paints like a pop myth. I have an appetite all of a sudden.
