February 2025: Marc Tweed - Mean Candy: Sweet Over Sour

FEBRUARY ART
Opening Thursday, February 6, 2025, 5-9pm
MEAN CANDY: Sweet Over Sour
Paintings & Drawings by Marc Tweed
Capitol Hill Artwalk, Thursday, February 13, 5-9pm

For these new works, I chose an intentionally jarring palette of pinks, lavenders, and teal to clash with the implied violence and subtle grief of my subject matter. Each of these works started with a meditation on an image extracted from a 50-year-old small-town newspaper. I was struck by the contrast between the innocent positivity conveyed by captions such as, “Mrs. Eugene Berhow brings her son, Toby, to visit relatives in Bethany Manor” and the photo of mother and son looking absurdly—almost desperately—upset.

Marc Tweed is a self-taught artist, fiction writer, and musician living in Seattle, WA.
www.marctweed.com