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Scott Brooks' People at Longview |
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November 8, 2010
 Kerri Sheehan, Scott Himself. Tom Drymon  Scott Brooks’ “We the People” at Longview is a great show. Scott’s work has always been mordantly compelling with political/social/sexual overtones, executed with a technical competence bordering on the Old Master and an imagination located more in Adult Merchandise territory. Once you start focusing on the profusion of details, you get drawn into Scott World, where sweet little girls wear metal-spiked clothing and everyone is a candidate for a twisted good spanking.
  Liberty Leading the People
Scott World today is very strongly reflective of our times, peopled with ravaged, overindulged capitalists, narcissistic night people, characters who abuse and/or invite abuse or both at the same time. I was particularly drawn to “Liberty Leading the People,” a naughty/sexy young woman in red white and blue burlesque attire and high boots, with a Chihuahua on a leash and leading a Mad Max war machine into battle. Looked to me like the Sarah Palin wet dream.
 Are we having fun yet?
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