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Queen's Nails Annex: Keith Boadwee & Patrick Rock - Cult Classics, not Best Sellers.

Comment: I guess you could call this art "high raunch," with the gallery's front windows appropriately smoked for the occasion. Patrick Rock tells me the work pushes, or more accurately, vaporizes the envelope by way of boldness, and you sure won't get a peep outta me on that one. Yes, it's depraved and disgusting, but much of it is also hilarious, thought provoking, and exceptionally impressive from organizational, historic, social commentary, sexuality, and aesthetic perspectives. In the front room, Keith Boadwee instigates the assault straight in your face, sodomizing you up for the middle room which, if you didn't see the front room first, would likely still wax phallic and anal on you, but not nearly as intense. In the third and final room, Patrick Rock culminates the blunt force trauma with a wall of arrestingly progressive mixed media collages. It's rude; it's crude; it's excellent. Go see. I'd love to show you everything here, but I can't.