Michael W. Surber

If with Juliet's Balcony the expressive style was Romantic, regarding his works Slut Lust and Bottle Caps and Broaches the artistic search is close to the world of Graffiti and Ready Made. Slut Lust was born with a "black and white photo that I liked. However, when I looked at it, I felt there was more to the store. After pasting the photograph, I started painting it with a hot pink acrylic color. It immediately gave me a punk rock/sexual vibe. I added the two punk stickers to the pieces and added black and gold acrylic paint." The artist also talks about his work Bottle Caps and Broaches "When I started this piece, I wasn't really sure what direction I was going to take. I knew I wanted to make a 3-D work. I started gluing random objects found around the house. When all the pieces were finished, it looked almost like the bottom of a child's toy box, so I started painting the silhouette of a little boy over some of the objects. That wasn't enough for me, so I painted a raincoat over the silhouette. The motif of the skull face was to represent the end of childhood. Those little trinkets that we cherish as children, lost and forgotten in time."

Art Curator Mara Cipriano