DAVID LEGGETT – WHY YOU REALLY MAD?
2020-06-22Why you really mad?, is a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based David Leggett which features paintings and works on paper from the last few years that utilize a comic style to deal with serious subjects like racial injustice and police brutality alongside lighter ones like art history and pop culture.
While he makes his works accessible with colorful depictions of Bart Simpson, Fat Albert, Alfred E. Newman and other somewhat familiar blobby characters coupled with catchy phrases, he does so to get you in. Once there, you will have to face the more difcult issues that are part of every work. The question in the title is Leggett’s, one he poses to anyone who might take ofense at his work.
Opposite – You can do what you wanna do, 2017
Exhibition runs through to July 18th, 2020
Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles
