The Dude Abides @78thStStudios

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Fri 11/21 @ 5 – 9pm

E11even 2 is a contemporary art gallery owned by artists Christina Sadowski, Billy Nainiger and R!ch Cihlar. It’s located in the West 78th Street Studios gallery studios. Each month, E11even 2 holds a gallery showing during the 3rd Friday events. The Dude Abides show by artist, curator and part gallery owner Billy Nainiger will premiere this Fri 11/21.  Known as the encyclopedia for The Big Lebowski, Billy was inspired to do this show on the film because it’s one of his all-time favorite movies.

“I’ve seen it over 60 times or so, and over the years it’s become a cult classic. Simply put it’s a very funny movie and I like to relate to a lot of the characters, especially the main character with his laid back nature. I actually kind of aspire to be like the main character a little bit…I’m a little more high wired sometimes. Part of me wishes I was more like that character where he’s just real laid back and poster-like and doesn’t let things bother him. It’s a funny ass movie and it’s so entertaining. I thought it would be a really fun show and people would get a kick out of it,” shares Billy.

He continues, “I do a lot of pop art and this is definitely pop culture, so it I thought it was an interesting way to take cool facial expressions from the movie and really bring out their personalities with art. I try to say about as much as I can through each portrait about the characters in the film. I wanted to transfer my love for the film into art on the wall.”

Billy is known to concentrate on portrait work a lot. For the upcoming show, he worked with old wood palettes, broke them down and rebuilt them using them for his canvases. He used a transfer technique to transfer images of portraits of the characters from the movie and applied all sorts of different hand painted elements.

In addition to paintings, he’ll have prints and artwork on bone pens — a very big theme in the movie. Plus, the gallery space is going to have many physical elements inside the space to play off of the movie and go along with the theme.

If you show up in a robe, you get a free gift! E11even 2 likes to incorporate a lot of fun factor.

Outside of artwalks and artfairs, this is Billy’s first gallery show since 2009.

 

http://e11even2.wordpress.com

http://78thstreetstudios.com

 

Cleveland, OH 44102

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