Baby Doll Clown Killers
1995 - 2015
When my five year-old daughter first saw one of my Clown Killer paintings she said. “I like that dress.” I asked her, “Can you see what is happening in the painting?” “Yes.” She answered. “That girl is going to kill that clown.” “What do you think about that?” I asked. My daughter responded. “It’s okay. Clowns are yucky.”
“With their apparently vapid subject matter of circus clowns and little girls, the Baby Doll Clown Killers achieve a shockingly layered profusion of meaning. Two standards of cuteness face off as if in some apocalyptic jihad, as pre-adolescent girls in party dresses aim pistols and bayonets at the bowed heads of circus clowns who suggest an inferior race tamed by their evolutionary superiors.”
