Muse Cruise
At Bunny Gunner Gallery, Thru Feb. 9
By: Matt Tapia
The Pomona Arts Colony has kept its canvases busy with great shows recently—aren’t they always? The dA Center for the Arts just wrapped its “The New Traditionalists” and “In Front of the Real Thing” (a collaboration with the Pomona College Museum of Art) but the good news is that there’s still one whole weekend left for you to check out Bunny Gunner Gallery’s “Muse Cruise,” a two-man show featuring tons of ink by artists Brent Harada and Rusty Jordan, and their collaborations on zine-inspired, black and white drawings. Gnarly. Drug-induced. Mystical. Mega-weird. These are the kind of words we’ve heard bandied about when trying to describe this “cartoon documentary.” If you ever wondered how a strong dose of ’60s underground comix and some good, clean acid would affect the artistic temperament, here ya go. Fans of Harada and Jordan’s Moulder Bag Digest #2 and their other way-way-way-way out there mini-comics will eat up this show. Off-register, off-kilter and totally on-point, “Muse Cruise” offers both sick and twisted art and complete visual accomplishment.
“Muse Cruise: Drawings by Brent Harada & Rusty Jordan” at Bunny Gunner Gallery, 266 W. Second St., Pomona, (909) 868-2808; www.bunnygunner.com. Thru Feb. 9. Tue-Fri, 11AM-7PM; Sat, noon-6PM.
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