Scenes of Santa Fe Night Life by Eli Levin
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Introductory text places printmaker Levin in the historical narrative and techincal discussion of his intaglio technique is enlightening for the animated works can appear to be lively drawings. Arranged chronologically, the works of sordid and rapidly developed into a pneumatic and active style between Pieter Bruegel the Elder's peasant celebrations ("Dance Hall", here) and Robert Crumb's works. The plumb figures head toward even Fernando Botero Angulo, but the desperate, pained figures have walked out of Bukowski's mind and haunts: crude, hopeless as well as cartoonish ("Dirty Joke", "Copping a Feel"). Boozing, brawling, and generally boisterous barroom behavior caught in engaging compositions by Levin, all of which are autobiographical to some degree.
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