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Eraserhood Tonight > Bite My Paintings – Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts #PAFADavidLynch

Bob Bruhin

Thursday, October 16, 6 p.m.

“I like to feel that you could bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I’m painting with my teeth.” – David Lynch

David Lynch’s art evokes absurdities, nightmares, strange visions, tense moments, and intense memories. What better meditation on Lynch’s combination of the human body with strange ideas than to throw an art historian at a director of a pathological anatomy museum to see what happens. Enjoy an evening of conversation between Robert Cozzolino, PAFA Senior Curator and Curator of Modern Art, and Robert Hicks, Director of the Mütter Museum, as they take their cue from Lynch’s art to match wits about ideas in art, things not to do with a human body, really, really disturbing narratives, and even pica, or eating things you shouldn’t (including paintings).

Event Page – 15 Bite My Paintings 101614 – Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

‘David Lynch: The Unified Field’ at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, through January 11 – WSJ – WSJ #PAFADavidLynch

Bob Bruhin

Some people are born to be artists, as if the impulse to draw, paint, sculpt, write, compose, make films or photographs were not a choice but hard-wired—a destiny.

David Lynch seems to be such a fated individual. Since at least 1966, when he enrolled as an advanced painting student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he has been making icky, funny, violent, sexy, naive images and, as documented in this scrupulous retrospective in the museum next door to his old school, he has never stopped.

‘David Lynch: The Unified Field’ at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, through January 11 – WSJ – WSJ.

Forever Wild at Heart – NYTimes.com #PAFADavidLynch

Bob Bruhin

Is Mr. Lynch as compelling a fine artist as he has been a filmmaker? The short answer is no. Images of sex, violence, trauma and black comedy abound, but many of the qualities that make his movies so singular — so “Lynchian” — are missing. The convoluted narratives, shifts from noirish realism to hallucinatory surrealism, erotic sensuality and creepy voyeurism, atmospheres of suspense and dread, mood swings from wonder to hysteria to bottomless grief, battles between innocence and evil: these dimensions aren’t fully realized in Mr. Lynch’s paintings.

Nevertheless, for Lynch completists, it’s a fascinating, must-see show.

Exploring David Lynch’s Paintings and Drawings – NYTimes.com.