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3D Desirables...
review Brighton-based artist Lez Ingham launches a three week retrospective of her Three Dimensional "Strange Adventures". The Twin Towers get her comic book touch, and Jack Nicholson has nothing on her Joker.With eight paintings on display but only three for sale (including one of my favourites - Batman: Our enemy is meticulous and way ahead of us!) this was more of a show of force than a force to buy kind of an evening. Lots of Tuaca cocktails to sip at and plenty of Brighton's best-dressed and best-known with which to mingle... Strikingly, the first work that hits you when you arrive is the Wonder Woman piece with the caption "This is insanity unleashed!". It is perhaps a little uncomfortable to be confronted with Wonder Woman standing in front of the huge cartoon rendition of the twin towers attack. But as you allow yourself to linger over it you can't help but question exactly what the artist is trying to say... and surely that's what art's all about? Lez's tongue is firmly in her cheek, but that certainly doesn't mean her paintings are flippant. A couple of favourites with the gathered throng were the snarling Supergirl: "OKAY! That's it!" and the superb but menacing Joker with his camera: "Smile!". I wasn't quite as keen on the somewhat more delicate lines of VooDoo, but it certainly helps give some pace to the whole exhibition. All the pieces absolutely jump off the wall, and you won't be able to buy prints of any of them for just that reason: Each of them uses layered board which gives them depth not only figuratively but literally. If you're passing Blanch House then do go and have a look around the show, which will run until the 7th of April 2004. about Blanch House
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