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100 Artists See Satan

Cal State University Fullerton
GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER
125 N. BROADWAY
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA 92701

100 ARTISTS SEE SATAN
JULY 3 2004
through
SEPTEMBER 19 2004

A SELECTION OF EXHIBITING ARTISTS INCLUDE;

ALEX GREY, BARRY MCGEE, CHAZ BOJORQUEZ, COOP ED RUSCHA, FRANK KOZIK, GARY BASEMAN, JOE COLEMAN
KENNY SCHARF, LIZ MCGRATH, MARK RYDEN, MAT GLEASON MEAR ONE, MICHAEL KNOWLTON, PAUL FRANK, RAYMOND PETTIBON RICK GRIFFIN, ROBERT WILLIAMS, SANDOW BIRK, SABER, VAN ARNO & many many satanically moreâ€¦

EXHIBITION OPENS
Saturday, July 3 from 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.

ARTISTS RECEPTION:
Saturday July 3 from 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT PROVIDED
AND EXORCISM PERFORMED BY: REVEREND ETHAN ACRES AT 6:30 PM

100 Artists See Satan is a survey of contemporary artists and their interpretation and representation of the supreme demon. The exhibition was organized in response to another exhibition, 100 Artists See God, organized by artists/curators John Baldessari and Meg Cranston for Independent Curators Inc. New York. During roughly the same period that 100 Artists See Satan is showing at the Cal State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, 100 Artists See God will be on view at the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach.

Press Inquiries: Ashley Eckenweiler of Oshkin PR
(949) 285-9239 / info@oshkin.com

CSUF Grand Central Art Center is pleased to introduce 100 Artists See Satan, showing July 3, 2004 through September 19, 2004 with a celebratory opening reception on Saturday, July 3 from 11am-10pm featuring live music from more than 10 indie rock bands from 12-10pm.

The bands include: Dios, The Sultans, Go Go Airheart, The Skulls, Harbortown Saints, The Geisha Girls, The Starvations, Operator, Satisfaction, The Distraction, Alleged Gunmen and more.

Music Organizers:
Mike Rocco, Roger Novales and Dennis Lluy

Mark Twain once said, "All religions issue Bibles against Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side."

While 100 Artists See Satan may not exactly present Satan's side of things, it does present a wide, albeit inconclusive, range of perspectives; it is intended to be a series of snapshots and ruminations, and it is an essentially visual exercise-there are no artist biographies or artist statements in the catalogue, just images by 100 artists. (Actually 115 artists' works are included in the catalogue and probably a few more in the exhibition; we attribute this to satanic math and with having an abundance of incredible work that we wanted to include in the exhibition). Some of the artists are famous and some unknown; their approaches to Satan range from humor and absurdity to deadpan seriousness, from blatantly political to esoterically philosophical, from text to symbolic images, from art historical references to pop-culture icons, from overt graphic images to subtle, sometimes poetic gestures, from abstraction to explicit depictions of individuals or imagery, from the found object to the meticulously rendered painting, from drawing to photography to video to music.

Mike McGee, curator

Posted 07.3.04 by Unit

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