Gushers

ERUPTIONS OF BEAUTY

Paintings and text by Bill Rangel

Each Gushers image shows an oil well erupting. And the spouting oil serves to coif a transparent beauty parlor doll.

24 x 24 acrylic on canvas

PETROLEUM SPIRIT

The wealth and power accruing from oil production somehow foments the cultures' ideals of beauty,

16 x 20 acrylic on canvas

TEXAS SWEET LIGHT CRUDE

perceived as an outward glow stemming from within,

20 x 24 acrylic on canvas

POSEIDON STREAMS

but when generated from petroleum byproducts, surely it's nothing more than just another in a series of socially acceptable masks.

20 x 24 acrylic on canvas

BENT HEAVY CRUDE

These imposed ideals work tirelessly to compromise our self-condence, and cap our natural wells of self esteem.

20 x 20 acrylic on canvas

SOUR CRUDE

These days, whatever radiance we do manage is the result of a denatured self, a glow gloating over a craven surrender to corporate avarice.

18 x 20 acrylic on canvas

TIA JUANA HEAVY

Gushers
ERUPTIONS OF BEAUTY
Paintings and text by Bill Rangel Part of the Echo Park Art Walk May 19, 2012 Beauty Box Salon 1498 West Sunset Blvd. Suite 5 Los Angeles, CA 90026 The titles of the paintings are types of petroleum.

ABOUT BILL RANGEL

Rangel utilizes a variety of painting methods for all of his multifaceted paintings. His images--expressionist, classical, surreal, erotic--are charged with the calm sense of a knowing eye. Each stroke of the brush is decisive even as it surrenders to the moment; for all the kinetic splendor of color and line, the viewer discovers simultaneity in every image. www.billrangel.com