Artists alter paint-by-numbers for exhibit

In Seattle, Marlow Harris and JoDavid curated a rather curious and delightful Paint-by-Number art exhibition for the 2011 Bumbershoot Arts Festival. More than 40 artists altered vintage (and completed) paint-by-number paintings for the show. Bill Blair painted massive paint-by-number backdrops and wrote stories for vintage paint-by-numbers while Ryan Feddersen installed a table tableau decorated with hand-cast wax crayons of fruit, vegetables, and meats. Above, "Father and Son" by Troy Gua. At left, Chris Crites -- whose work we've previously featured on BB -- "enhanced" a classic schooner paint-by-numbers.
"Bumber by Number at Bumbershoot" (Thanks, Kirsten Anderson!)

• [Cowicide]

  Oh man, I cracked up when I saw this one…

  http://unusuallife.com/wp-content/uploads2006/2011/08/Jim-Woodring.jpg

  • [flosofl]

    I can’t stop laughing. It’s funny every time I glance back at the screen.

    This work of art definitely told me a story.

• [Cowicide]

  I’m surprised there’s not more comments in here.  That art in there is fantastic.

• [vtwahine]

  I would have cracked up a week ago over that, but I live in Vermont and we just lost several covered bridges for real due to flooding.  :(

  • [Paula Brennecke]

    So sad. … not just the covered bridges you lost.

• [greatfootedhawk]

  This reminds of LA based artists Kye Potter and Julia Dzwonkoski, who have been repurposing thrift/paint by numbers paintings for some time by inserting monochromatic grayscale rainbows into the originals: http://www.jd-kp.com/things/paintings/rainbows