Biddle Gallery
2840 Biddle Avenue
Wyandotte, MI 48192
734-281-4779
www.biddlegallery.com
Hours: Thursday-Friday 11AM-5:30PM, Saturday 11AM-3PM
Contact Person: Karen Thomas (cell phone: 734-776-8867)
Purple Gang
Gangster Portraits by Rick McQuaid
January 21 - February 5, 2011
Adopt a Gangster! Detroit's own hometown hoodlums of the Prohibition era - The Purple Gang - return to the Biddle Gallery Jan. 21. A new series of mug shot portraits of Sam "The Gorilla" Davis and his pals, plus other artistic curiosities by Rick McQuaid will be unveiled at Biddle Gallery during Wyandotte's 3rd Friday, January 21, 6-9PM.
Born close to the middle of the last century in Dearborn Michigan, Rick McQuaid's outsider art has been mystifying the Downriver art community for years. His work wanders over a peculiar range of styles; from melancholy ink drawings with a punk flavor, abstract compositions of recycled images, to Dada inspired irreverent anti-art.
Gulley Jimson, the great British abstract expressionist, once said of Rick's art, "McQuaid is my favorite American artist. If you have never seen his work, you should be ashamed of yourself. Stop leading a wasted life. I don't understand it myself, but I know what I like". High praise indeed!
Attached Images:
Sam Davis (color pencil on paper) by Rick McQuaid
Harry Altman (color pencil on paper) by Rick McQuaid
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