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Hold The Line exhibition (KAWS, 2011) at the Honor Fraser Gallery, painting & sculpture
This past fall, Brian Donnelly, better known as KAWS, held his second solo exhibition in LA’s Honor Fraser gallery. KAWS has always had a great knack for inspiring and unexpected color combinations but this newest crop of work is really unlike anything he’s ever done before, full of wildly contrasting tones and fluorescents that have me wanting to sit down with a cup of coffee and a PANTONE chip book for a few hours.
There is an incredible amount of design, planning and precision that goes into KAWS’s work. One look at the layout in his Hold The Line exhibition and you know he’s a perfectionist. On the other hand, his work is so whimsical and fun, it ends up striking a perfectly balanced juxtaposition of tender care and a sort of childlike irreverence. The large companion sculptures, massive versions of his popular vinyl toys, look so cool next to the paintings—they just look like they’re meant to be together. Do I sound like I’m drooling yet? I am.
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Hold The Line exhibition (KAWS, 2011) at the Honor Fraser Gallery, painting detail
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Hold The Line exhibition (KAWS, 2011) at the Honor Fraser Gallery, sculpture detail
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Hold The Line exhibition (KAWS, 2011) at the Honor Fraser Gallery
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Hold The Line exhibition (KAWS, 2011) at the Honor Fraser Gallery
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Hold The Line exhibition (KAWS, 2011) at the Honor Fraser Gallery
Simply put, KAWS’s Hold The Line exhibition makes you feel happy. His work never takes itself too seriously. But at the end of the day, there is an incredibly talented and thoughtful guy really designing it all, carefully plotting where each color goes in every painting and crafting sketch after sketch and render after render of every sculpture until it’s precisely what he intended it to be.
