Press release:
Gus Cutty presents “Satanic Panic” opening reception
Featuring completely new works by Asheville aerosol artist and WNC’s #1 mural artist Gus Cutty in celebration of Halloween and horror movie and heavy metal culture of America in the 1980’s.
WHERE: Push Skateshop and Gallery, 25 Patton Avenue, Asheville, NC
WHEN: Opening reception will be from 7-9 pm Friday October 30th and the exhibit will hang through the month of November.
Costumes are encouraged.
“Remember that time in 1984 when we found your brothers Judas Priest record and went into the attic and lit candles and played it backwards and it told us to steal my sisters barbies and melt their heads together til it looked like a rad goat headed demon then we had to hide the evidence in that abandoned school in the woods behind our neighborhood so we wouldnt get caught and we found all those playboys in the leaves with the eyes cut out and pentagrams drawn all over em?!?
This is gonna be just like that.”For this exhibit, Gus Cutty delves into the media culture of the 1980’s that surrounded what is now known as the “Satanic Panic”, when several violent crimes involving young heavy metal fans stoked a witch hunt on the church of satan, popular music, cinema and others. The scare led to a daytime talk show frenzy, a jolt to the economy of televangelists with collections of VHS and books educating parents to the dangers of satan in the media, and even supreme court hearings the victims of which were most often artists.
The exhibit consists of 8 new pieces by Gus Cutty with collaborations with local talent Alli Good, Hannah Dansie, Madd Maxx, and Ian Wilkinson and a mural created onsite the nights leading up to the opening. Consisting predominately of aerosol on found and reclaimed objects, the pieces in “Satanic Panic” give the feel of worn down rural structures while displaying the surgical preciseness Gus Cutty is known for drawing from such a chaotic medium.
For more of Gus’s work please check out www.guscutty.squarespace.com and @guscutty on all social media.
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