Through a visual dissection of would be lost iconic images of human history, Mike Ferrari's work revives the past in order to create a new “pulp fiction” - one where memory is fabricated through rendered or cut-and-pasted historical photographs, color, surrealism, and illustration. Through a series of fractured images and ideas working together in harmonious conflict, the subjects pictured in these works are ones who embody both beauty and despair. The patterns, found materials, and renderings that surround, backdrop, or interrupt these remnants of our culture and counterculture recreate them in an experience that matches how our own modern generation experiences life - with an undeniable seriousness, but also a bit of kitsch to soften the blow of how vulnerable we really are. Mike Ferrari is a painter and art educator who lives and works in New Jersey. He is indeed the one who made the original cover art for the podcast and an all around good guy worth listening to.
