Some people believe that laughter and humor are sometimes the best medicine, especially when it comes to issues like race and sexual orientation. Well, for the newest art exhibition opening at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA) this Friday, humor spawns over the works that are to be featured.
The exhibition Renegade Humor, consist of artworks from the art department at the University of California, Davis. Many of them created during the 1960 and 1970s, it keeps up with the counterculture of that time, addressing whatever issue that may had arose during that time with the kind of humor that would appear as aggressive and transgressive.
Among the artists featured in this exhibition includes Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest (whose painting Silas Newcastle Goes Down is the sample featured on the SJMA’s website), David Gilhooly, Peter VandenBerge , and William T. Wiley, many of which have taken inspiration from the Bay Area’s figurative traditions and pretensions of the East Coast art world, and each giving laid-back and flippant attitudes towards values of the time, and mixing them with social messages.
The Renegade Humor exhibition does not only feature artists, whose works came from the 1960’s or 1970s. it features works from subsequent decades including Brian Googin, whose work Desire for the Other (2004), comments other people’s insatiable desires for certain things, which could probable be just about anything including inanimate objects. The exhibition runs until July 8th. Log on to www.sjmusart.org for more information.
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