A new exhibit by Megan Whitmarsh, The Fucking Crap of Life, opened Saturday, February 21st at New Image Art in West Hollywood, CA. Whitmarsh, who embraces "entropy" and "visual noise" along with a vibrant color palette and 1970s pop culture, has two editions, Color Work Station and Trash Mountain, currently available on 20x200.

Whitmarsh says of her new work:

I am a child of the 70s whose sense of futurism is informed by Star Wars (fucked-up dusty robots) instead of Tomorrow Land. A future with entropy and drug use and weeds growing in the cracks between the scratched plexiglass windows of the geodesic domes. Bits of yarn and dusty houseplants. If this sounds bleak, I don’t mean for it to. Perhaps the healthiest kind of futurism is one that admits entropy and flux. Perfection is suspicious; worn and dusty can mean well-loved, too. Who loves the Stepford Wife?...

When I make a giant mountain of handmade trash I am lost in the fun of making, and feel like a kid building a fort. In the end I must resign myself to the fact that I have just added more crap to the world, but this seems an inevitable part of being an artist and a human. I try to remain optimistic. I like art that is generous in spirit and amateurish, art that inspires rather than intimidates.

The Fucking Crap of Life will be up through March 21, 2009.

Buy Color Work Station and Trash Mountain at 20x200.
Read Jen's newsletter on Megan Whitmarsh.