Icons

LOVE AT THE BUS STOP is proud to present ICONS, a solo exhibition of portraits by Los Angeles based photographic artist PARKER DAY. The images of ICONS burst forth fromthe seamy underbelly of life in an explosion of lurid technicolor with a cast of characters played by club kids, internet personalities, and self-professed freaks. The un-retouched grit and grain of 35mmfilm packages fantastical content in palpable reality. Identity, and our ability to shape how we’re seen and in turn who we are, is central to the work. It’s communicated through costuming, symbols, andthe emotional language of color, to connect in an intuitive and direct way that transcends artifice. Influenced by comic book and advertising aesthetics, Day uses kitsch and nostalgia as a foundation of familiarity to build upon. Growing up in her dad’s comic book store, it was covers by R. Crumb andCharles Burns that most captured her young imagination. Never daring to read these forbidden adult comics, she’d instead invent stories about the colorful characters found on their covers. Day sees herportrait subjects in much the same way; filled with power and mystery. PARKER DAY photographed ICONS from July, 2015 to November, 2016 in Los Angeles and NYC. Images from the series have been featured in Vogue Italia, The New Yorker, Juxtapoz, Vice, i-D , andDazed . Solo exhibitions of ICONS have been presented at Superchief Gallery in both Los Angeles and NYC, as well as at Screaming Sky Gallery in Portland, OR.