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Monkey Business
Koo's bring you Potus. Fear him!
by Rebecca Schoenkopf
OC Weekly
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I Knew When I Saw The Invite For "Perceptions Of The President" at Koo's Art Gallery that the show would be short on angel-beams of light touching the noble brow of our 43rd president, and long on pictures of funny monkeys. . . .
Nancy Calef, out of San Francisco, gives us Modern Deluge. The big, rough oil shows cartoon characters like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Condi, and John Ashcroft sitting together while Laura gazes, stoned and fawn-like, at her husband at his desk. Behind her husband's George Bush mask is Osama bin Laden; from his belly protrudes Dick Cheney's face like an evil Siamese twin on X-Files. Over the Capitol's sky- line float Martha Stewart and Michael Jackson, while Tyco, MCI and WorldCom go unnoticed. It's a nicely naïf (and beautifully bitter) painting; it's Grandma Moses with a subscription to Covert Action Information Quarterly.
Modern Deluge , oil on canvas, 40" x 30"

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