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MEDIA CONTACT:

K. McCann (aka ghetto picasso)

theresnoplacelikefoam@gmail.com

Alex Goldstein

Proprietor & Gallery Director, The Fridge DC

alex@thefridgedc.com

202-664-4141

BLACK ARTIST'S DOES "GREEN"

PARODY OF PABLO PICASSO'S BLUE PERIOD

(Washington, DC 10/09)  Black artist K.McCann (aka Ghetto Picasso) began his "green" period in 2005 with an eco-parody of MOMA (The Museum of Modern Art, NY).  Dubbed F.O.A.M. The Found Objects Art Museum, the live-in art installation reflected the societal peer-pressures of attaining sustainable status.  In 2007, he produced "The Dirty Love Tour".  A performance piece, he toured the UK and Europe posing as a street vendor selling time shares to a dadaist ashtray sculpted from found objects.  And currently, he's back in Washington, DC with the first of a series of art exhibits that utilize post-consumer waste to lampoon the "Dogma of Eco".

On display at The Fridge DC, a "confessional" symbolically interpreting man's edification efforts to become eco-friendly, is the first of the series.  Monochromatic yellow, the "confessional" is a satirical depiction of the Sacrament of Penance.  The display is a sideshow to the various performances and rotating exhibits ongoing at the recently opened gallery space located in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Capitol Hill.

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