Royal Young “LUSH DOOM”

Figureworks

poster for Royal Young “LUSH DOOM”

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Figureworks presents Royal Young in his premier exhibition. Young was introduced to the gallery through artist Cathrine Westergaard, one of Figureworks earliest Williamsburg artists. Sadly this year, we lost Cathrine to cancer.

This exhibition is dedicated to Cathrine Westergaard, who loved the arts and championed young talent.

Royal Young was raised on the Lower East Side in the early ‘90s by a father whose mosaic murals decorated subway stations commissioned by the MTA. Young grew up amidst artists, junkies, prostitutes and dreamers, often indistinguishable from one another.
In Lush Doom, Young’s paintings evoke the vibrantly colored street murals he saw in the gorgeous, derelict downtown of his youth. Updated with a Pop Art sensibility, he is inspired by vintage Playboys, noir movie stars, desperate characters and lost decadence. Young paints fantasy figures of femme fatales. Through dynamic, bold visuals, Lush Doom explores a mysterious, enticing world that is doomed to crumble.

Royal Young is author of the cult classic memoir Fame Shark. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Post and Interview Magazine. He majored in visual art at LaGuardia.

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Schedule

from September 12, 2015 to October 11, 2015

Opening Reception on 2015-09-12 from 18:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

Royal Young

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