Belcourt theater show Nashville Tenn. Aug 2006

  

"Pulling another snake from the pond"
oil n wood, 2006
$200
"Expect Great things"
oil on wood, 2006
$200

"No you idiot we both gonna die"
oil on wood, 2006- $200
"Burried bones"
A.Mursac -oil on wood-2006
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Ruralists Collective Including painters from Tennessee, Texas and Alabama, the Ruralists Collective combines an academic understanding of contemporary art with a folk aesthetic to create a largely narrative body of work that draws from Americana, frontier mythology, rural iconography and agricultural traditions. The collective comes to the Belcourt Theatre lobby through founding member Harry, a local painter whose work has been finding its way into the hands of new collectors via shows at The Art House and Plowhaus alike. Including work by Franne Lee and Merrilee Challis, the shows highlight is the bizarre and brutal body of work by Texas painter Chicken George, whose mythic pieces are populated by snakes, goats and roosters and seem to be torn from a childrens book your parents wisely kept out of reach. An opening reception takes place on 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 4. JOE NOLAN

homage to Danny "the Bucketman" oil on board, 2006  $250

>>>Next show  the Ruralist in Chicargo, pics and show catalog up soon, April 13>>>