Category: Paintings
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Chunk in the Arcade
…actually, he’s in a bowling alley. For 30 years we mistakenly thought this, one of our favorite shots in all of cinema, was captured from the exterior of an arcade window, until we were corrected by the owner of LC Bowl in Astoria, OR, when he bought our painting at the Goonies 30th Anniversary Celebration.…
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Mogwai Rules Triptych
We painted this little series of minis (they’re only 3 square inches!) for a favored patron of the arts. Normally we don’t do commissions, but made an exception here because of our abiding love for both “Gremlins” movies, especially “Gremlins 2: The New Batch”. <Says brief prayer that “Gremlins” isn’t rebooted now due to us…
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Viva Charo!
Late one night we turned on our TV and caught the last 30 seconds of Charo appearing on a 70’s variety show. Amazingly, she looked the same in that old clip as she would a decade later in the “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special”, and we’ll be damned if she’s aged a day in the 30+…
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The McHorror Family
The “McHorror Family” series gnawed its way into existence following a late-night binge of soyrizo tacos and Olympic ice skating coverage when we woke from a dream wherein we were stalked by a slow-moving, dead-eyed Grimace. The bloodstains on the purple felt of his mouth were unforgettable. Produced in 2014 using acrylics on 13″ x…
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Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Our parents let us watch reruns of “Laugh-In” on Nick at Nite when we were, like, 9. Does this (partially) explain why we’re so fucking weird? You bet your sweet bippy. P.S. if you don’t know who is depicted in this little 8×10-inch cardboard painting, might we kindly suggest you look that up in your…
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A Disturbing Display of Deplorable Distaste
It is to our great shame that our hometown of Waterloo, IA, convicted John Wayne Gacy for raping a minor in 1968 but a mere 18 months into his 10-year prison sentence set him free…free to flee to Illinois where he embarked upon his sickeningly infamous serial murder spree. It is to our even greater…
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Fuck Coca-Cola 4Ever
Waaaaaay back in 2003, we read that Coca-Cola was tricking farmers in India into putting toxic sludge on their fields, destroying the soil and poisoning the land and water in the process, so in response we painted this little watercolor. Flash-forward nearly 20 years and we find this evil corporation, hell-bent for decades on the…
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Kiss My Grits
Much of our pop culture knowledge comes from having been raised by TV addicts. Florence Jean Castleberry (aka Flo), the sassy Mel’s Diner waitress from “Alice” played on television by the illustrious Polly Holliday, is the first in a series of paintings saluting the feminist heroes of our childhood: 1970’s sitcom broads. Produced using acrylics…
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The Ruined Landscape of Steve Bannon’s Face
This canvas has seen a lot of action. For nearly 20 years we tried to make something work with it but couldn’t get anything to click. After the umpteenth recoating of gesso dried it was clear: the canvas was now a total piece of garbage, so laden with globs of poorly-applied paint, so covered in…
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30 Shades of Duff
We believe “The Simpsons” today is a pale, sad parody of itself which should be taken out to a field and shot. In 2018 we decided we could no longer force ourselves to watch the zombified corpse of a program we once loved shamble across our TV screen on Sunday nights and pulled the plug.…
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Les Demoiselles d’Peekskill
Our first collegiate art history course was called “Masterpieces: Art as a Cultural Paradigm” and the opening 4 weeks focused solely on Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” as an exemplary masterpiece. Upon viewing the same boring slides for the hundredth time, we vowed to one day make the perfect parody of this so-called masterpiece. The opportunity…
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