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Quinn Girard

Pacific Coast
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Edge of Feeld

Cartoon punk with a dog and tennis balls, power lines and trees in the background.

acrylic on canvas

Two Hungry Caterpillars Find Themselves as Last in Line of Defense Against Emergence of Minor Glyphosphate Demon

Colorful surreal scene with a green structure, cartoon faces, and an inset black-and-white drawing.

acrylic on canvas

Blood Bank

Stone temple entrance with red beams and droplets in front, green grass on sides.

acrylic on canvas

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Artist Statement

 Quinn Girard is an emerging painter and sculptor whose work addresses and combines a wide variety of topics, including industrialization, technology, and mythology, as well internet aesthetics and cultures. His current work is primarily concerned with themes of re-enchantment, folklore, and animism. It explores how these older worldviews can be applied to present day technologies and environments and provides speculative frameworks through which to view the contemporary world. These themes are rendered via a playful style of cartoon-abstraction influenced by the history of Bay Area Funk art, underground comix, and the Mission School.

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