Art shows are always entertaining. Especially the Phoenix Artwalk, which is to say, the digging for semi-precious gems in mountain of used shit-stained underwear. Sturgeon’s law is a total underachiever when it comes to the first friday artwalk. But I wouldn’t be mentioning this if I didn’t stumble on to Alexander Scott Hughes‘ Put a Tiger in Your Tank, which I’ll get to presently.

Honestly, I’m almost ready to shell out some money for some of these works. His work is emotional and he’s got some images that makes him stand out. And a lot of it smells of great potential.

He loves the scary ookie pop culture stuff (Nightmare Before Christmas, Invader Zim) which seems to be real popular with the crowd - it’s probably his bread and butter as an artist. And his work of young boys with bare chests are excellently rendered to my uneducated eyes - and if that phrase sorta creeps you out, I’d say he does a good job of keeping the innocence without making it creepy which is pretty cool actually.

But the gem in my [heathen] eyes is Put a Tiger in Your Tank, depicting the Exxon logo and 50’s slogan Tiger leaping with an Imperial Stormtrooper in the foreground. As I write this, it’s about 10 feet away and it’s got some fun energy with a bizarre pop-culture invade-the-world overtone to it.

Very enjoyable.