Interview

The Brooklyn-based artist Drake Carr likes to dress sexy for the studio. It helps him get in the mood, but it also reflects the salaciousness of his work, in which colorful, larger-than-life characters hump and bump into one another, their cartoon-like faces throwing shade, or grinning in ecstasy. Inspired by his job bartending at Happyfun Hideaway, a New York institution best-described as the queer, Bushwick version of Cheers, Carr’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures play with juxtapositions of pleasure vs. pain, private vs. public, and godliness vs. sin. On the occasion of Service, Carr’s latest rainbow colored solo show now on view at Fierman and Situations, the artist caught up with Fierman gallery director and curator Tony Jackson to discuss his mushroom-fueled practice, and why Bananarama is better than rock n’ roll...

August 24, 2022