Sandow Birk: Dante’s Inferno
Salem (Oregon), Willamette University, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Study Gallery
October 16-December 23, 2010
"Sandow Birk is a Los Angeles, California painter and printmaker who, since the early 2000s, has re-imagined Dante’s Divine Comedy. Organized by director John Olbrantz, the exhibition features 36 prints and 20 drawings from Dante’s Inferno that the artist sets in contemporary Los Angeles, with Dante as a Southern Californian led by a mullet-sporting Virgil."
Dante's Divine Comedy "is a five year project which involved adapting the text of the entire "Divine Comedy" into contemporary slang and setting the action in contemporary urban America. The project resulted in three, limited edition books, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each book contained more than 60 original lithographs and was published by Trillium Press in San Francisco."
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