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6/11/2003

NYHC

McCaig-Welles Gallery, New York

"Sean Taggart NYHC" uses the conventions and iconography of hardcore flyer art to express the emotional reality of the early 1980s New York Hardcore scene. The paintings draw on Taggartx{2019}s experience as one of that scenex{2019}s major artists, an 18-year-old master of the fast, the cheap, and the shocking.

Rather than merely recreating the art of that era, the artist draws on influences as diverse as Hieronymus Bosch and Basil Wolverton to create paintings with a unique narrative quality. The energy of line drawing is combined with fine-art techniques of painting, rendered in grisaille as a homage to the original black-and-white Xerox reproduction of the flyers.

Graffiti-like text is incorporated into the works as an appropriation of the hand-lettered band names, here subverted into new-beat lyrics which are, themselves, a visual element. In these paintings, pop cultural references are treated with high-art seriousness; images that initially appear humorous or cartoonish are freighted with intense emotional content. The artist looks back, without nostalgia, and presents his vision of the beauty and brutality of New York City Hardcore.

In the image a work by Sean Taggart.

McCaig-Welles Gallery
129 Roebling Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
tel. 718 384 8729

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