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BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS Visual Art by Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO



The Paradise Lounge Gallery proudly announces the special 3-year anniversary exhibit, BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS, visual art by Devo guitarist, Mark Mothersbaugh. Featuring 's8220;corrected photo manipulations,'s8221; BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS exhibits October 20th through November 27th (2005) at the Paradise Lounge Gallery, 969 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. The opening reception is Thursday, October 20th, from 7-9 p.m. is open to the public, and free of charge.



Mark Mothersbaugh is an award-winning film and television composer, and founding member of the groundbreaking band Devo. Originally from Ohio, and currently residing in Los Angeles, Mothersbaugh creates multi-discipline visual art and music. With Devo, he recorded 20 albums over 20 years, including Q: Are We Not Men A: We Are Devo (1980), and the 1980s radio/MTV hit 's8220;Whip It.'s8221; Spreading the controversial message about the devolution of the human race to a worldwide audience, Devo recently performed a handful of sold-out shows in Los Angeles, New York, Portland and Chicago on their Devolution Is Real concert tour in 2004, and played Hammerstein Ballroom in New York this past July.



Mothersbaugh has written countless film and television scores including The Life Aquatic, Thirteen, Rugrats, The Royal Tenebaums, Herbie, Clifford the Big Red Dog, 200 Cigarettes, Rushmore, Happy Gilmore, The Power Puff Girls, The Birdcage, Liquid Television, Dawson's8217;s Creek, Revenge of the Nerds 2, and Tapeheads. He also scored the award-winning CBS television series, Pee Wee's8217;s Playhouse. With his company, Mutato Muzika, (working also with his brother/band-mate Bob and Devo alum, Jerry Casale) he created music for television commercials for The Gap, American Express, Volkswagen, Coca Cola and more. BMI (the international composers association) awarded Mothersbaugh their lifetime achievement award.



BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS began touring in 2004, featuring photographic symmetrical creations, and hit Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles, Seattle and others. 's8220;About five or six years ago,'s8221; says Mothersbaugh, 's8220;I took my inspiration from talking about symmetry and the asymmetry of humans. I became interested in the human as a Rorschach print. Taking humans, slicing them in half then flipping the other half and matching it up so they are truly symmetrical instead of faux symmetrical as humans are. We have two ears but they don's8217;t resemble each other. It's8217;s the same with eyes and ears. One of the things that tweaked my interest in Rorschach art was Bruce Connors and his little mini Rorschach prints he was making where he would take thumbnail size Rorschach prints, he would make with ink on some sort of watercolor paper then iron it all out. It would look like these really intricate Space Invader characters that were very delicate and very complex looking.'s8221;



's8220;These pictures are mostly portraits of humans,'s8221; he continues. 's8220;Humans tend to have their dark half and a light half in the sense that on the same child or adult one half of their face looks innocent and beautiful. Even people who are plain looking can sometimes have an innocent half of a face and even beautiful people can have one half of their face look monstrous, malevolent and dark. Its interesting to see just how the slight shift from two ears that are shaped different to two halves heads of hair being combed the same changed the person to being totally unrecognizable.'s8221; Mothersbaugh refers to the creations as 's8220;sickeningly beautiful beings.



Every day, for over 30 years, Mothersbaugh created 's8220;postcard art,'s8221; which became the Homefront Invasions gallery tour of the 1980s/90s. 's8220;I's8217;m calling them postcards,'s8221; he explains 's8220;because for 15 years I mostly drew on the back of postcards because I mailed them to people and exchanged them with other artists. When they became weirder and more personal then I mostly kept them as a diary.'s8221; Additionally, Mothersbaugh recently designed a derby car for the Chicago Pinewood Derby Invitational this past June, and created original cover art for the new book, Visits to the Flea Circus, a collection of short stories by Nick Jackson, published by Elastic Press. He was also featured in Versus Magazine (France) and interviewed in Swindle Magazine, published by Shepard Fairey (Obey Giant). Mothersbaugh has exhibited in Tokyo, London, and Vancouver, as well as numerous U.S. cities, galleries and museums.



Newly renovated, and under new management, The Paradise Lounge is a rock & roll bar/lounge with a new restaurant element. It is open nightly at 5 p.m., providing a unique space to dine or lounge before a show, catering to patrons with a love of all things music/art. The Paradise Lounge is located at 967 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. It is accessible via the Green Line (B line, Pleasant Street stop) on the MBTA. Metered parking is also available in the area. Artwork shown is also available for purchase unless otherwise noted. Paradise Lounge Information 617.562.8814. [thedise.com]. The Paradise Lounge is open to the public, and is 18+.



Contact:

Ami Bennitt 978.744.7973






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