Johansson Projects presents an exhibition of LP cover production art,
promotional photos, drawings, scratch-board illustrations, and digital imagery
from the archives of Homer Flynn. As principal designer for the internationally
acclaimed music, video and performance group, The Residents, Flynn will be
exhibiting both professional and personal work. This is the artist's first solo
exhibition at the gallery.

Through his work, Homer Flynn has created a unique folklore composed of
morosely ironic tales intertwined with the poignancy of thinly veiled emotion,
revealing Flynn's obsession with both the vulnerable and perverse aspects of
the human psyche. Using a wide vary of materials, he draws on imagery from Walt
Disney comics, outsider art of the Deep South, M.C. Escher and fetish pulp.
Committed as much to the discovery as to the revelation of ideas, Flynn pursues
his vision through a diversity of media, allowing his rich artistic output to
be driven by ideas manifesting themselves through drawing, painting, print
making, sculpture, digital media, photography, film and performance. Flynn's
figurative prints and drawings are notable for their intense mark making, often
rendered with stark, contrasting colors. Similarly bold, his photography
reveals forceful characters through stark black and white compositions as well
as a vivid, often garish, use of color. While the mood of these images is often
confrontational, Flynn also reveals a vulnerability that deepens the reading of
his work.

Homer Flynn is best known for his involvement with The Residents, the Bay Area
based art collective internationally renowned for their avant-garde music,
theatrical performances and filmmaking. In the main gallery Flynn will exhibit
work he created for the Residents, including production art for original
Residents album covers, promotional photos, art used in print advertising and
set designs.

Since his work for The Residents has taken the primary focus of his output for
nearly 40 years, Flynn has thus far chosen to keep his personal work private.
At Johansson Projects he will show a survey of his entire career curated by his
daughter, Jana Flynn, including much work that has never been shown publicly.
This work, featuring pastel depictions of natural disasters collaged from the
pages National Geographic magazine, scratch-board illustrations, silkscreened
prints and graphite sketches from his journals, will he featured in the project
room of the gallery. Finally, a slideshow will be projected in the viewing room
showing recent digital work produced for The Residents.

Homer Flynn lives and works in San Francisco, CA. He is a self-taught artist
originally hailing from Shreveport, LA.
Show runs through June 17, 2011