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“Hard Time Mini Mall”: Bryan Cunningham (a.k.a. Mutie)

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Mutie, “Love Potion No. 9″

Bryan Cunningham (a.k.a. Mutie) has a wall full of pieces in the Shooting Gallery‘s group show Hard Time Mini Mall, curated by the Red Truck Gallery. The artist hand-carves wooden frames, and suspends a painted canvas with grommets and beer pop-tops. The result are colorful, mixed-media assemblages based upon 1950′s advertising that offered inflated promises, and apotropaic amulets from New Orleans’ Vodoun culture and Mexican Catholicism.

The works feature a dazzling array of color, and an overall homespun aesthetic. All the pieces nostalgize a mythos of vintage Americana, where weird and magical concoctions were bottled and sold to the public through adverts in the back of comic books, and roadside signs. Hard Time Mini Mall will be showing through May 4, 2024. Come see the work in person or check out the full online exhibition here.

View more after the jump.

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Mutie, “Milagros Cross”

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Mutie, “Beware the Jack-a-Lope”

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Mutie, “Monster Island”

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Mutie, “Mudflap Girl”

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Mutie, “Swami Sees All”

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Mutie, “Voodoo Monkey”

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