Bwana Spoons’s Climbing Out (2007).Image courtesy of the artist and Giant Robot, New York.
Artist Bwana Spoons’s Bad Oyster
The paintings and illustrations of Portland-based, early-nineties ‘zine-ster Bwana Spoons look like something out of an indie children’s book — the kind embraced by the spawn of Brooklyn-based aesthete parents. Climbing Out offers a psychedelic take on a mobile, possibly maniacal though likely sheepishly friendly, red, scaly oyster. In space. Obviously. Spoon’s show opens at the East Village’s Giant Robot gallery tomorrow night. —Rachel Wolff
Artist Bwana Spoons’s Bad Oyster