Joyce Pensato, an artist who lives and works in New York, has her first solo show at the Capitain Petzel Gallery in Berlin. The show looks great, not only because of the gallery's name likening itself to Captain Pretzel, who I always assumed was German anyway, but mostly because of her creeped out images of the happy go lucky cartoon characters we have all loved since childhood.
Pensato takes the all too familiar images of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Homer Simpson and recreates them into predominantly black and white figures that lay in the realm between abstract expressionism and pop art. The usually colorful, cheerful, or humorous characters become grotesque, and in some instances unrecognizable, turning our playful childhood friends into ghoulish, yet captivating creatures.
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