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May 21, 2008
Overweight @ Irvine Contemporary
James Marshall, or Dalek, has been a fixture in the urban art scene for ten years. Best known for his “Space Monkey” characters, Marshall brings this influence to Irvine Contemporary in his solo show, Overweight. Seen as a combination of street art, cartoon, Japanese pop and punk, Marshall’s paintings are very precise and highly complex compositions. Using bright neon colors he creates dizzying kaleidoscopic displays. The shapes that he employs are simple and minimal…