GULP by Drake Carr
The Hole
June 28, 2018 – August 12, 2018
Content and images by: Caressa Losier
About GULP
Bold, flamboyant characters by Drake Carr double as statement pieces in his solo exhibition GULP at The Hole – a contemporary art gallery in the Bowery neighborhood of Manhattan. Confined to high ceilings and white walls, each scene is a wildly unique world of its own. The exhibit was accompanied by sounds of sloppy spit, sweat drips, bong rips, gulps and sips that filled the air and echoed across the room.
About Drake Carr
Drake Carr is a Michigan-born, Brooklyn-based contemporary artist. He often depicts fictional characters in his artwork, but little traces of his family life and upbringing were incorporated into GULP.
Inside, there’s a scene of two sculptures bench pressing in front of an elaborate window treatment. This intense moment was inspired by the same lingering feeling that was in the air when his parents first met. And that stunning window treatment was co-created by his mother who is an Interior Designer. This is how it received the title Wendy Carr Interior Designs.
Joseph emerges from the well poses effortlessly in a flavorful geometric trench coat, styled with a sequin-sleeve on the right arm. His body is made of PVC pipe, concrete and plaster material sprayed over with acrylic paint and airbrush. Joseph is shirtless underneath the coat and has slicked back all of his mid-length locs, with the exception of two strands framing his face.
Long walks and herbal refreshments helped Carr create some of his best work. This could be the driving force behind some of the pink-eyed, dilated pupil characters scattered about in GULP.
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