Emmeric Konrad spent 4 years in the United States Marine Corps before going on to earn a BFA from Otis/Parson's when it was still in the trenches of MacArthur Park. Since graduating from Otis his work has been shown in the United states , Germany and Japan.
Emmeric's work has been compared to the edgy pop artists of the late seventies and the early eighties, but with his own personal vision, at once perverse and strangely satirical. Inspired by Walt Disney’s humorous creations and by the intensity of such artist as Otto Dix, Goya and De Kooning, Konrad gravitates to the darker side of the human psyche. With childlike images of pigs, dogs, mice, and people replete with exaggerated attributes, Konrad’s paintings are happily manic expressions of equally innocent and painfully troubled characters interacting and willfully acting out.
He delights in bringing his unique inner world to the canvas.
ARTIST STATEMENT
High Octane
Sensory overload- nine beers drinking three BigMacs no fries, no fries! Screaming through the McY D's
drive through on a motorcycle Zen momma tripped out paintings, the world, downtown, LA: chaotic blend of puss- mucous, vomit, laughter and tears. Relationships in house paint and cattle marker love, disease, television -docudramas, political ambushes and backstabbing. The entire bubbling churning cauldron of modern life blurring by the megabyte. In your face double barrel attacks, oversensitized desensitized blitzkrieg fallout of anticultural culture bias-blasÈ bullshit, wetdream nightmare realities at two in the morning with earthquake locust Armageddon spouting gunfire crap, fuck, fucking, fornicating ecstasy condom cuming ten inch love muscled death, laughter life and tears of joy. Decapitated Barbie doll beautiful America, closet Ken and our Lord Mickey Mouse lawsuit pending bible burning big white heterosexual self-emasculating placenta chugging happy ignorant bliss-filled masturbation.
Emmeric's work has been compared to the edgy pop artists of the late seventies and the early eighties, but with his own personal vision, at once perverse and strangely satirical. Inspired by Walt Disney’s humorous creations and by the intensity of such artist as Otto Dix, Goya and De Kooning, Konrad gravitates to the darker side of the human psyche. With childlike images of pigs, dogs, mice, and people replete with exaggerated attributes, Konrad’s paintings are happily manic expressions of equally innocent and painfully troubled characters interacting and willfully acting out.
He delights in bringing his unique inner world to the canvas.
ARTIST STATEMENT
High Octane
Sensory overload- nine beers drinking three BigMacs no fries, no fries! Screaming through the McY D's
drive through on a motorcycle Zen momma tripped out paintings, the world, downtown, LA: chaotic blend of puss- mucous, vomit, laughter and tears. Relationships in house paint and cattle marker love, disease, television -docudramas, political ambushes and backstabbing. The entire bubbling churning cauldron of modern life blurring by the megabyte. In your face double barrel attacks, oversensitized desensitized blitzkrieg fallout of anticultural culture bias-blasÈ bullshit, wetdream nightmare realities at two in the morning with earthquake locust Armageddon spouting gunfire crap, fuck, fucking, fornicating ecstasy condom cuming ten inch love muscled death, laughter life and tears of joy. Decapitated Barbie doll beautiful America, closet Ken and our Lord Mickey Mouse lawsuit pending bible burning big white heterosexual self-emasculating placenta chugging happy ignorant bliss-filled masturbation.
