Mike Egan - “May Death Leave Us Be”
new paintings
Oct 1st - 29th 2022
Opening night reception Oct 1st 6-9pm
Mike Egan “Black Cat Costume” acrylic on wood
For the upcoming Halloween season, Roq La Rue is pleased to take a journey back to our "lowbrow" art roots and present a dynamic new series by painter Mike Egan, presented in our Art and Object section of the gallery.
Mike Egan's works have a folk art quality and are almost exclusively death related. Inspired by artists Jose Guadalupe Posada and Kathe Kollwitz, Egan initially started his art career as a print maker, and his paintings retain a the bold graphic quality he started with. After a stint as a funeral director/embalmer, Egan switched to painting while whiling away nights waiting for body pick up calls, infusing his work with a sympathetic sense of the macabre and the delicacy of life, death, and grief. Pulling in his additional interests in pop culture such as vintage Halloween decorations, cartoons, album covers and skateboard graphics, his work has taken on an undeniable and vibrant punk immediacy.
Egan currently lives in Ohio and participates in numerous successful art shows, as well as creating various projects and art toys.
