KILL PIXIE & TRAVIS LOUIE

Pressemitteilung:

Merry Karnowsky Gallery Berlin is proud to present a two-man exhibition by Australian street artist Kill Pixie and American painter Travis Louie.

Kill Pixie (AKA Mark Whalen) began as a graffiti artist in the slums of Sydney, Australia. Inspired by the folk art of the indigenous cultures of his native country, Kill Pixie uses delicate line work and disarmingly bright colors to paint his humorous detailed characters, embedded with symbols, in a void of space. Kill Pixie’s work has been shown in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. He has recently completed his first monograph, Kill Communication, published by Australia’ IzRock Pressings.

Travis Louie’s paintings come from the tiny little drawings and many writings in his journals. He’s created his own imaginary
world that is grounded in Victorian and Edwardian times. It is inhabited by human oddities, mythical beings, and otherworldly characters who appear to have had their formal portraits taken to mark their existence and place in society.

Louie was born in Queens, New York, about a mile from the site of the 1964 World’s Fair. He received a degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. After working for years as an illustrator, he began showing his paintings in local art galleries.

The influences for Louie’s work are many; the genre films, his fascination with human oddities, circus sideshows, old Vaudeville magic acts, Victorian portraits, and things otherworldly, are all blended together to enable him to bring life to the characters and stories he writes in his journals. Louie’s work has shown in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Atlanta, San Francisco, Berlin and Rome.