Why yes, that IS a David Yow art opening!

Probably not going to do the "ballsac" trick this time around, however...

By Blurt Staff

David Yow - the notoriously unhinged frontman for The Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid - brings a new art collection, "Glass Gas Mask," to Fuse Gallery on Aug. 24 (running through Sept. 21) for his first solo New York City exhibit. The opening reception is Aug. 24 from 7 to 10 p.m. with Yow in attendance. (Fuse is at 93 2^nd Avenue in NYC, www.fusegallerynyc.com)

Yow recently returned to the art world after leaving design behind to pursue music post-college.  He participated in his first group show in Spring of 2010 and has since taken part in worldwide exhibits as well as several Los Angeles solo shows.

View more images from the Fuse exhibit right here. Or check out Yow's art at his website.

ABOUT GLASS GAS MASK: "Working both digitally and by hand, artist and musician David Yow produces a body of work that has a keen compositional sensibility often combined with a dark sense of humor.  He utilizes design elements of line, texture, and shape in conjunction with found images and objects to enhance, alter and create graphically bold imagery with an edge.  In his digital works, Yow delineates images to exaggerate an emotion to absurdity; and in the paintings, he integrates acrylic, collage, charcoal, pencil, spit, hair, crayon, wood, etc. to craft a deviant somewhat biomorphic creation, that is, or was, living - whatever it is, is very difficult to discern."