Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing

Wolf in Wolf's Clothing is a selection of portraits by Doctor Kobra in which the Grotesque and the Fashionable go out and get drunk and blurried break apart into new shapes. The Russian Critic Mikhail Bakhtin believed the function of the grotesque's to bring the abstract established, status quo ideals of a corrupt culture out into the muddy realm of the Physical and thrash it til something new shows up. I have always had an interest in portraiture and fashion/pinup photography and the different ways you can render a figure and these glitched out, stylish drawings fall within that space between the glamorous and the grotesque, between a fine wine idea of boudoir, pinup, couture beauty and the atom smashed fucked-up three-eye radioactive mutant silkscreen paintings remixed. Wouldn't a giant Xerox machine at Kinko's be a dirty drummed large format camera? Could you "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" it all and merge things willy nilly as if they belonged there already? These wonderfully grotesque portraits are an example of my past year's work.