Purple Art

[01/14/2016]

Alex Hubbard “Basic Perversions” exhibition at Maccarone, Los Angeles

Alex Hubbard’s sugar­coated, plasticky paintings recall the basic perversions (as the title suggests) of Hollywood’s best efforts to fake it. Candy­glass cast out of coloured polyurethane re­creates the sensations of a fast­paced market doing its best to prompt us not to jump (though it’s always tempting). And amid the warmly industrial colourings, like Hershey’s caramels melting over waxy frames […]

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Text and photo Sabrina Tarasoff

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