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| Named for our late founder, THE JENNIFER BATES MEMORIAL GALLERY is always looking for artists who don't pander to conventional tastes or art school norms. We like the extreme, the provocative, the truly politically incorrect. Any art dealing with the occult, conspiracy, post-apocalyptic, heresy, extraterrestrials, or fringe interests is considered.
Please email our Gallery with a description of your work and .jpgs.
An historical overview of our past shows is coming soon to this website.
Meanwhile, HERE'S A LIST OF WHAT LIES IN YOUR FUTURE! Christopher Wilke Spectres of the Id April 4 through May 25, 2008
“From early on I have been led to believe that I have a slightly skewed perspective of reality. I don’t know if that’s true. My solipsistic nature persuades me to believe that everyone sees old prude women and imagines them dancing in Hell, or imagines elephants used in primitive pageantry draped with fascist banners anytime the word “patriotism” confronts them. Am I the only one that thinks a human smile looks defensive, in the same way a dog looks when it’s kicked? I doubt it. I have to doubt it…. When I retreat to my humble abode and paint I find that a wave of relief washes over me. The stress of conformity drifts away, the stress of required responses and greetings... here in my world, I see form as subservient to content, and function is King. As masturbation, the function is therapeutic. As sex, the function is hypnotism. I need to make others see how I see. And I think they do, and we all think we’re the only ones, trying to banish what others would call bizarre or evil from our thoughts. And we walk along the streets and show our teeth to our neighbors and use the shield of program like a condom for interaction.” -- Christopher Wilke
June 2008/ July 2008 Sound and Vision of Changes with Robert N. Taylor and Nicholas Tesluk
August 2008/ September 2008 John Malloy
October 2008/ November 2008 Group Show: Members of the Church of Satan
December 2008/ January 2009 Jonathan Canady
February 2009/ March 2009 The Myth and Wonder of Deitsch Heathen Hexology
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