Storm Tharp: Holding a Peach

Departing from the eccentric faces that established his signature style, Storm Tharp turns his attention to the body and fashion in his September show, Holding a Peach. In ink and gouache works on paper, Tharp deploys a precise technique to depict hybridized body parts clad in sumptuous plaids (Spring Picture: Knee), fishnets (Strut With Collar), stripes (Athlete), and floral prints (Peonies & Plaid Sleeve). Much of this imagery is repurposed in fabric-stuffed sculptures displayed inside pedestal-mounted vitrines, all lined up in a row. There’s a perverse, serial-killer fastidiousness to these displays, as if Tharp has gleefully dismembered bodies and sewn them back up, Frankenstein-style, in unholy new configurations. Through Sept. 29.

 

Where: PDX Contemporary Art
Phone: 222-0063
Address: 925 NW Flanders St.
Website: http://www.pdxcontemporaryart.com/