Article: Painting Freaks In Paradise: Rebel Art Breeds Theological Science

Gabriel Price
Forward
05-20-1994
Painting Freaks In Paradise: Rebel Art Breeds Theological Science.

The work of the painter Marc Solomon Dennis obeys a kind of wandering, troubled logic. "My paintings exist where evolution and religion collide," the young artist explains in an interview with the Forward. The result of this collision can often be confrontational for the viewer, as in Mr. Dennis' indelicate painting of a well-endowed black hermaphrodite bearing the horns of Moses and grinning behind a curtain named "Adam and Eve." "There's no time in my life that we've been involved in so many contradictory arenas," the 34-year-old painter explains, and his work, he adds, "is bound to reflect ...