Wonderfool World

    (Butler Gallery, 2006)
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David Sandlin hasn’t made what you’d call a sketchbook so much as a collection of premier art and some interview material, with squiggly inks and explosive color. Gender-bending, body-distortion, and death are big themes here, with scenes that resemble the Sunday cartoon versions of epic Medieval biblical tapestries, or Bosch paintings of Hell. Except… y’know, cheerily marching to fate. A breast from Heaven or a spike from Hell, it’s all the same to Sandlin’s characters, who seem to celebrate having a fate rather than what it might be.

— Brendan McGinley
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    W: David Sandlin  ·  A: David Sandlin
    Exhibition catalogue; ca. 2006
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