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  • MONDAY APRIL 3 2006 12:02 PM

American Mythology

American Mythology: The Monstrous & The Marvelous opens today and runs through the 8th at the Worth Ryder Gallery at UC Berkeley.

A culture is defined by its stories. When most people think of Mythology they think about ancient tales that have little meaning in today’s world. A new gallery show at UC Berkeley takes a different view. The show, comprised of a handful of professional artists as well as student artists from schools all over the Bay Area, depicts American Mythology as the living, breathing, and constantly changing face of the culture we now live in. Images of classic American tales like John Henry share walls with reverent paintings of Elvis, and strange etchings of Bigfoot. All of these stories illustrate the ways in which truth and fiction combine to form the legendary, and how every story has more than one side. Includes well know Artists Big Foot, Deth P Sun, John De Fazio and Jad Fair.



Opening reception is April 4, 4-9pm, Worth Ryder Gallery, 116 Kroeber Hall, FREE (exhibition runs April 3-8, 12-6pm)

 
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SomethingStupid

SomethingStupid

North Hollywood, CA
March 2004

APR 04, 2006 01:21 AM

When I think of mythology, I don't so much think of John Henry or anything like that. I think of heroes, villains, mistaken identities, totally bizarre plot twists that have to be patched together by later writers, senseless nudity and violence, soap operas so complicated that only the most dedicated of geeks can follow the bloody thing...basically, I think the American equivalent is much more in comic books than anything else.