Boo!
NEON always knew our friend Taffy was a handsome chap, and if we ever forgot he would never be too far away to remind/tell us. So we were naturally very proud when he graced the cover of Design Week, despite being covered in dripping paint he’s under there somewhere.
Taffy features in Boo Ritson’s latest paint orgy Back-Roads Journey, a two-site show about a fictional road-trip across America. Part 1 is titled The Diner and showing at the Alan Cristea Gallery, here Boo introduces the characters in a small town diner. Part 2 features our painted face chum at The Gas Station and follows two characters from the diners as their lives cross along the road. This is showing at the Poppy Sebire Gallery.
Boo Ritson paints the subject, literally, the results photographed while the paint is still wet. There is a window for this of 20 minutes before the household emulsion dries and Taffy is forever a trucker in a Hawaiian shirt.
The results are vivid and it is such an unusual technique you want to stick your nose up close to the pictures and touch to see if it is actually wet.
Both exhibitions close on November 21st and it is pleasant ten minutes Mayfair meander from Alan Cristea to Poppy Sebire to catch both Part 1 and Part 2. If all this glossy Americana gets you in the mood for Yankie fare Goodmans and Automat are local.
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