Electric Coffin “Fountain of Youth”

June 4th - June 28th 2022

Opening night reception Saturday June 4th 6-9pm Artists in Attendance

Roq La Rue is pleased to present a dynamic new show by Northwest based rising superstars Electric Coffin. Comprised of the artist duo of Duffy DeArmas and Stefan Hofmann, Electric Coffin create multi-media works that generally comment on socio-economic and environmental concerns as well as reclaiming a sense of spirituality and connection with nature in the Anthropocene era. Adept at humorously transforming the "low brow" into fine art, EC reshapes the slogans of mass commercial advertising into a language that communicates introspection into our deeper human natures and connection to each other and the world. 
For this show, EC will create an environment in the gallery exploring the nostalgia, dreams, and optimism of youth and how they affect our consciousness as adults. A loose construction of a boy's bedroom with attendant decor (i.e. skateboards, dirt bike parts, all created out of meticulously carved and decorated wood in EC's signature punk hodge podge aesthetic) will set the base with additional dreamlike works of bears, bigfoots, and astronauts summoning forth the wilder dreams of freedom, exploration, and growth we yearn for when we are young and believe are possible as we grow up and of forward in life.

This show will feature multiple sculptures as well as a variety of paintings and wall mounted mixed media works.

“Youth is a powerful elixr, removed from experience it pushes forward in time devoid of relative perception. In this body of work we are looking back at this era of youth from a new perspective, to decode and exalt that wellspring. To analyze the blueprint of cognition and understand our origins. To think of memory thru the cloud of now and reinterpret that ambiguous idea of the past.

Physically we are all made from atoms, however spiritually we are made from our past experiences. Our existence is an amalgamation of all of our past encounters and interactions. As we grow older we stiffen, become hardened, rooted in ourselves. As kids we are malleable, explorers, and curious. Our growing bodies and minds could only be satiated through an ongoing consumption of inspiration. This body of work examines and dissects those experiences and objects from our youth. As a way to understand who we are and where we are going, we must first understand where we came from.” - Electric Coffin

 Electric Coffin are based in Seattle, Washington but exhibit nationally and internationally. The recently exhibited a large multi-media installation at the Museum of Museums, a new contemporary art center in Seattle, as well as participating in numerous art fairs around the country and in Taipei. They have just been commissioned to create a series of large scale art works for Seattle newest high rise, the Ren building. The duo also run a design business called House of Sorcery where they have created installations for companies like Amazon, REI, and Zillow

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