Robin F. Williams talks to friend and fellow painter Jenna Gribbon about cults, parenting, and her new exhibition at, 'Good Mourning.'
, in which the artist’s cinephilia is on full display. A series of oil paintings that reference iconic horror films like, Williams’s latest show toys with ideas of gender, sexuality, the body, and transformation. “My theory is that superhero movies and horror movies are mirrors of each other, or two sides of the same coin,” Williams told Gribbon last month in the Pines, shortly after wrapping another recent exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art and just before Gribbon opensat David Kordansky.
WILLIAMS: That’s the thing, none of us are. I think that’s why I’m attracted to horror genres. There’s a tipping point where you’re not in a horror story, but then suddenly you are. We think that we’re in control of our consciousness and the way that we’re moving through our world, but then suddenly you wake up and realize you’re in a bubble. You’re in a way of thinking that you didn’t even know was trapping you. There are no heroes in horror; it’s about the shadow side of things.
GRIBBON: It’s us trying to understand our personal experience in both cases and both being drawn to things that are narrative and tableaux in some way. My son is 13 and he’s starting to look just slightly less like a child. He’s not fully masculinized yet hormonally, he’s in this ambiguous state where he probably looks more like me now than he ever will. He’s a little bit of my doppelgänger. Speaking of horror, a doppelgänger is something that’s usually met with fear and disgust.
, we had a long period of time where people weren’t paying attention to what we were doing. We met about a decade ago, and we were both super frustrated. We were making all these paintings and no one cared, which is fine now, but when you’re making paintings and people areyears ago, if we wanted to make a really weird painting that we didn’t think anyone was going to like, we would’ve been more likely to make it.GRIBBON: And that’s a hard reality to accept.
United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
10 Best Robin Williams Movie Quotes, RankedImage via Interscope Communications
Read more »
This Robin Williams Classic Comedy With 84% on Rotten Tomatoes Will Crack You Up Next MonthAdam Blevins is a News Author at Collider who focused primarily on movie and TV news. He is also a Gaming Features writer at Screen Rant.
Read more »
Robin Williams’ Best Performance — and Most Disturbing Movie — Just Hit MaxEric McClanahan is a writer from a small town in SouthEast Texas. Growing up on a steady diet of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Animaniacs, his brain is little more than sugar cereal now. He&039;s been writing about film since 2018 and has interviewed over 70 creatives, including a "UFO Disclosure Activist.
Read more »
Steven Spielberg Nearly Made 'Hook' as a Musical Starring Michael JacksonRobin Williams and Dustin Hoffman on a poster for Hook
Read more »
Jenna Ortega talks ‘Beetlejuice’ sequel and her mom’s supportThis is additional taxonomy that helps us with analytics
Read more »
“You Could Tell”: Wednesday’s Jenna Ortega Talks “Very Different” Tim Burton Experience On Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceJenna Ortega in a high school hallway in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Read more »