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gerdyart · 3 months

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New works. Ink and acrylic on comic pages.

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gerdyart · 3 months

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Draw every day.

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gerdyart · 3 months

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WIP Fistfight(anti fascist anthem). For Unbound IV invitational at the Columbus Metropolitan Library. Showing with the big dogs of the Columbus Art Scene.

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gerdyart · 4 months

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A Big Daddy Roth rip-off for a super great guy who works his butt off. Super fun to paint and the kids made work for him too!!!!!

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gerdyart · 5 months

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I am beyond humbled to receive the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Community Award through Art for Life/Equitas Health. Aminah Robinson is one of my biggest inspirations and art heroes. The clincher is that my dear friend Michael Bush created the award.

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gerdyart · 6 months

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Inktober at Wildacres Retreat. My first residency, helping me clear out some cobwebs

A note I left in the guestbook.

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gerdyart · 6 months

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Artist residency at WildAcres N.C. Finishing some big things that have been on the stove along time.

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gerdyart · 7 months

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Brad has been my pal for 32 years. We can spend years away from each other and pick up right where we left off. Art making and laughing and silent brotherhood. Keep getting up.

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gerdyart · 8 months

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New work starts for holiday shows

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gerdyart · 9 months

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Some insight into my work for Visual Healing at The McConnell Art Center.

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gerdyart · 9 months

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Someone compared my sign work to Howard Finster’s work. I’ll take that compliment any day!

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gerdyart · 10 months

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El Destructo’s Atomic Circus

Opening July 14 at Secret Studios, Columbus Ohio. Through August.

From a young age, I was mesmerized by the idea of being in a circus. My grandfather bragged about being a roustabout for Clyde Beatty Circus in the 1930s and all the adventures he had. Also, once a year small traveling circuses would come to my village. They would unload a circus train full of wild animals, trapeze artists and clowns on a vacant lot on the south side of town. There was magic, mystery, and wonder in these one-ring circuses. The idea that I could run away and belong to one of these menageries was enticing.

Even at a young age, I sensed that something was not quite right. When I saw Browning’s Freaks(1932) and Goulding’s Nightmare Alley(1948) with the VHS boom in the 1980s, my inclinations were realized. There was a seedy, dirty underbelly in these traveling shows. The circus crew tended to be wayward people just staying ahead of what ever they were running from. In 1984 a crew of carnies attempted to steal my buddy Lenny’s car after a night at the bars. My grandfather’s hubris also came to light. He was a conniver, a liar, and an abuser. The spectacle of a circus life and adventure crumbled.

El Destructo’s Atomic Circus is my coming to terms with the wonders of being a child and the realization that so much of the mystery is a facade full of anti-truths and exaggerations. There is a darkness in each of these pieces, but also childlike wonder. We all have personal circuses that we ringlead and manage. This is my circus.

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gerdyart · 10 months

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