Inappropriate Touching

sounds like: "Day" Bill Callahan
feels like: cutie

My work, "Street Fighter," will be featured in this show:

Inappropriate Touching;
Dirty Comics and Art Presented By the Washington Street Art Center

Opening Reception Feb 1st from 6-10pm
Feb 1-24th, Gallery Hours 12-4 Sat/Sunday or by appointment

The Washington Street Art Center presents Inappropriate Touching, a group show of dirty comics and art featuring the work of more than 20 contributors.
Ranging from self-published zinesters and emerging Boston talent to internationally exhibited artists and award winning illustrators from coast to coast, Inappropriate Touching features art and comics as diverse as they are deviant. Funny, intimate depictions of sex and relationships from local comics hero Liz Prince, weekly Phoenix contributor Karl Stevens, indie comics legend Ariel Schrag and Chicago comics fixture Jeffrey Brown, will share wall space with the juvenile gross-out gags of Vice back page creator Johnny Ryan, adult excerpts culled from cartoonist Jason Little's new graphic novel, and dark, sexually-charged Darger-esque paintings by Bonnie Dewitt, among many other offerings.

Shedding light on the entire scope of obscenity, from the playful and suggestive to the explicitly perverse, the show blurs the lines between beauty and entertainment, porn and personal narrative, high art and low-brow smut. Inappropriate Touching is bound to stimulate something.

Come check out the show at our opening reception Friday February First from 6pm-10pm, which promises to shock and awe with dirty disco and dance tracks from DJ Area D, followed by live music performances from local cosmic-punk outfit The Real Life Time Machines, dark electro-pop from Plunge Into Death, and a special appearance from filthy electro R&B duo Angela, of Brooklyn.

Curator Sarah Schoemann will also be creating a limited edition zine featuring selections from the exhibition. Pick it up at WSAC during the month of February or at fine book and comic shops throughout the city. Proceeds from the zine will go to supporting the free live music programming at WSAC.

The Washington Street Arts Center is located at 321 Washington Street in Somerville, just outside of Union Square on or near the 86, 87, 83 and 91 Bus routes. Parking is free and ample.

For more information visit www.washingtonst.org
or Call the WSAC at 617.623.5325