Dunces, Delinquents and Demons: 
Overlapping Views of a Primordial Brain

A show at ART212, New York City,
September 27-October 1, 2006

Participating artists:
Jeffrey Beebe
Humberto Duque
Zachary Clement

For the inaugural ART (212) fair, the team of Agró/Glickman STEP (1) proposes to bring three artists together under the umbrella of a curated show:  Dunces, Delinquents and Demons:  Overlapping Views of a Primordial Brain. 

In his animated narrations, Mexican artist Humberto Duque reflects on the playful side of the collective unconscious.  Similar to the way we dream, his adorable but silly characters are always taking on different forms and carrying out different roles in a world that seems to have no fixed reference points.

New York based artist, Jeffrey Beebe, is also reflecting on myth and fable, but his work often takes on the whole range of irrational thought and emotion -- much of which is on the darker side.   By telling stories with a reoccurring cast of often “morally challenged” characters, he attempts to tease out the most essential elements of the human experience:  loss, love, obsession, hate, and fear.

Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, the now Brooklyn-based Zachary Clement plumbs the deepest depths with his “demonic” self portraits…and in so doing, he successfully captures the purity and intensity of darker human emotions at their most primal level.  His work bears a strong resemblance to that of Egon Shiele (a rather amazing coincidence when you think that the artist only had his first glimpse of the great Austrian’s masterpieces some four months ago).