james lassen and devon nowlin

caught their show at gallery 414 last night. pretty awesome stuff. james' stuff reminded me of guy peellaert (dutch guy who did lotsa album art and the rock dreams book with nik cohn back in the '70s), altho he says he never heard of him. i dig the way his vibrant colors explode with life. he paints from photos and some of his canvases have the in-and-out-of-focus quality of photography. devon's colors are more subdued. this batch of her paintings were based on pics from the '50s mag the ladies home journal, with spectral figures overlaid on 'em to make a statement about alienation and the disparity between private/public faces. show runs until november 25th; worth checking out.