FERAL EXHIBITION- HAS BEEN EXTENDED

RICK CASTRO/STEPHEN HOLMAN:FERAL

has been extended through march 28th, wednesday thru saturday- 1pm till 5pm

lisa derrick fine arts

961 Chung King Rd, Chinatown, Los Angeles, 90012

info- lisaderrickfinearts@gmail.com

 (424) 835-2793

 

 

RICK CASTRO/STEPHEN HOLMAN: FERAL

lisa derrick fine arts

961 Chung King Rd, Chinatown, Los Angeles, 90012

info- lisaderrickfinearts@gmail.com

 (424) 835-2793

RICK CASTRO- PLUSHIES & FURRIES SCREENING- MARCH 7TH

tickets- lisa-derrick-fine-arts.square.site

This collection of images was taken at ConFURence 9, in Buena Park, California, 1998.

The furry fandom owes its history to the original sci-fi conventions of the late 1940s. 

Inspired by the 1938 Orson Wells radio presentation of the HG Wells novel War of the Worlds, originally published in 1897, 

a plethora of sci-fi, books, stories, comics and films flooded the market. 

This gave way to the monster, outer space genre of the 1950s, mushrooming into the Star Trek and Lost In Space phenomenon of the 1960s.

In the mid 1980s a smatter of people dressed in fur suits started to attend Trekkie Conventions.

 “Furries,” as they became to be known, took over one room in the burgeoning Comic Cons, then in 1989 ConFURence Zero was presented as an all furry convention.

With the advent of the internet, furry is, in my opinion, the first culture to create and organize online. 

Since my documentation in the late 90s, furry has indeed become mainstream morphing into other fandoms, raves, and conventions.

 In the 21st century monthly furry conventions are worldwide events. 

A furry is someone who identifies with anthropomorphic culture, in this case animals. They usually have a “fursona,” which in new age terms was once called, “spirit animal.”

 Some furries enjoy the art, (the erotic art isamazing!) gaming and social gatherings only, others take it deeper and sexualize the fandom as their fetish.

My research of furry became a documentary film I directed for MTV premiering January, 2nd, 2001. Plushies & Furries scored # 2 in the ratings with heavy rotation for 6 months, followed by my first exhibition & gallery at Michele Lamy’s legendary Les Deux Cafes in Hollywood. This followed with a screening at the Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood, followed by another exhibition, It Ain’t Exactly Bambi,” at Track 16, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica. So yes, I am the person that brought furry culture to the mainstream. 

Plushies & Furries, (2001- 30mins)  will be screened twice @ Lisa Derrick Fine Arts- 961 Chung King Rd, Chinatown, Los Angeles, 90012.

3:15 & 5:15- tickets- lisa-derrick-fine-arts.square.site

Feral is part of 120 Days of Rick Castro: 

a project running throughout 2020 across the greater Los Angeles area, facilitated through a variety of venues, celebrating internationally renowned photographer Rick Castro. 

 rick castro- fursuiter @ conFURence 9,  30x40 matte fiber print, unique, 1998

FERAL- OPENS FEB 15TH-3PM

FERAL: Rick Castro & Stephen Holman opening Saturday February 15, 2020
from 3pm to 6pm at Lisa Derrick Fine Arts. Feral runs through March 7.
Join Rick Castro and Stephen Holman for the opening of Feral at a Valentine’s Day aftermath tea party from 3pm to 6pm on Saturday, February 15, 2020 along Chung King Road. Elegant, Edwardian, Victorian, vintage, eclectic, cosplay, attire encouraged. Scones, fairy cakes, finger sandwiches, fruits, teas both hot cold, beverages for adults and children.
Feral combines new works from Stephen Holman and larger than life photographs of furries taken by Rick Castro at the ninth iteration of ConFURence. Images presented reveal our animal natures in a romanticized yearning return to a free and uninhibited state. Parallels are drawn to that time during Age of Enlightenment through the Industrial Age when feral children became all the rage, and our own era of technological advances which has facilitated news ways of discovering our true natures.
Rick Castro - FERAL
This collection of images was taken at ConFURence 9, in Buena Park, California, 1998.
The furry fandom owes its history to the original sci-fi conventions of the late 1940s. Inspired by the 1938 Orson Wells radio presentation of the HG Wells novel War of the Worlds, originally published in1897, a plethora of sci-fi, books, stories, comics and films flooded the market. This gave way to the monster, outer space genre of the 1950s, mushrooming into the Star Trek and Lost In Space phenomenon of the 1960s.
In the mid 1980s a smatter of people dressed in fur suits started to attend Trekkie Conventions. “Furries,” as they became to be known, took over one room in the burgeoning Comic Cons, then in 1989 ConFURence Zero was presented as an all furry convention.
With the advent of the internet, furry is, in my opinion, the first culture to create and organize online. Since my documentation in the late 90s, furry has indeed become mainstream morphing into other fandoms, raves, and conventions. In the 21st century monthly furry conventions are worldwide events.
A furry is someone who identifies with anthropomorphic culture, in this case animals. They usually have a “fursona,” which in new age terms was once called, “spirit animal.” Some furries enjoy the art, (the erotic art is amazing!) gaming and social gatherings only, others take it deeper and sexualize the fandom as their fetish.
My research of furry became a documentary film I directed for MTV premiering January, 2nd, 2001. Plushies & Furries scored # 2 in the ratings with heavy rotation for 6 months.
My doco can currently be viewed on WOWTV-
FERAL is part of 120 Days of Rick Castro, a project running throughout 2020 across the greater Los Angeles area, facilitated through a variety of venues, celebrating internationally renowned photographer Rick Castro.
Stephen Holman - FERAL
Stephen Holman presents twenty new works in Feral, and comments, “These works represent the bigger, bolder, wilder, and more magical side of my work, and I am THRILLED to be showing them all together in one amazing gallery location.”
Holman spent a happy childhood roaming through the rural idyll of the English countryside before being rudely thrust into the chaos of punk-era London in the late 70s, and New York City’s Lower East Side club scene in the early 1980s. He moved to California in 1987, and his subsequent four decade, multi-media career in the US has included co-founding and directing the notorious cabaret/performance art troupe Theatre Carnivale in Los Angeles in the late 80s, creating and directing surreal stop-motion animation series for Nickelodeon (Life with Loopy/Kablam!), Warner Bros (Phantom Investigators) and Disney (The Bite-Sized Adventures of Sam Sandwich), and discovering and managing outsider artist, William A. Hall from 2015-2019.
Holman's visionary paintings frequently relate to his surreal stage performances, combining eco-science and political satire with messy, outrageous comedy, utilizing props such as giant rabbits, dancing toilets and cheese propulsion devices. In recent years, however, magic, mythology, childhood, and man’s spiritual relationship with nature have also become deep inspirations. Holman’s work has been shown widely throughout the world in venues including MOCA, the American Visionary Art Museum, The Kitchen, Track 16 Gallery and the Tokyo International Theatre Festival. He resides in Alhambra, CA.

CHECK OUT-RICK CASTRO: FERAL- OPENS FEBTH

 Rick Castro: FERAL

This collection of images was taken at ConFURence 9, in Buena Park, California, 1998.

The furry fandom owes its history to the original sci-fi conventions of the late 1940s. 

Inspired by Orson Wells radio presentation, (1938) of HG Wells novel, War of the Worlds, (1897) a plethora of sci-fi, books, stories, comics and films flooded the market. 

This gave way to the monster, outer space genre of the 1950s, mushrooming into the Star Trek and Lost In Space phenomenon of the 1960s.

In the mid 1980s a smatter of people dressed in fursuits started to attend Trekkie Conventions. 

“Furries,” as they became to be known, took over one room in the burgeoning Comic Cons, then in 1989 ConFURence Zero was presented as an all furry convention.

With the advent of the internet, furry is, in my opinion, the first culture to create and organize online. 

Since my documentation in the late 90s, furry has indeed become mainstream morphing into other fandoms, raves, and conventions. 

In the 21st century monthly furry conventions are worldwide events. 

A furry is someone who identifies with anthropomorphic culture, in this case animals.

They usually have a “fursona,” which in new age terms was once called, “spirit animal.”

Some furries enjoy the art, (the erotic art is amazing!) gaming and social gatherings only, others take it deeper and sexualize the fandom as their fetish.

My research of furry became a documentary film I directed for MTV premiering January, 2nd, 2001. Plushies & Furries scored # 2 in the ratings with heavy rotation for 6 months.

My doco can currently be viewed on WOWTV.

Stephen Holman: FERAL

 an Anglo-American artist who incorporates PAINTING, STOP-MOTION ANIMATION

 and PERFORMANCE ART into his work.​

His four-decade career has included working on Pee Wee's Playhouse, 

directing and co-founding era-defining '80s LA performance troupe THEATRE CARNIVALE,

 and creating animation series for Nickelodeon (LIFE WITH LOOPY), Warner Bros (PHANTOM INVESTIGATORS) and Disney (THE BITE-SIZED ADVENTURES OF SAM SANDWICH) 

His work has been called "a wildly inventive treat" by the LA TIMES and "performance art at its finest, with the guts to go beyond the boundaries" by the LA WEEKLY.

opening reception: February 15th- 3pm- 6pm

on display thru April 1st

Lisa Derrick Fine Arts

961 Chung King Road

Los Angeles, CA 90012
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RICK CASTRO BY THE DAY

RICK CASTRO- HIRSUITE 2013

BIO

RICK CASTRO BY THE DAY

RICK CASTRO- PLUSHIES & FURRIES 2001

BIO

THE NEW ZOO REVIEW- OUTTAKES

THE NEW ZOO REVIEW- OUTTAKES- CIRCA 1972

FURRIES: PUT A LEASH ON IT

THERE WAS A CROOKED BEAR...

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WHEN FURRYS ATTACK

police say the release of chlorine gas that hospitalized 19 people and forced the evacuation of the Midwest FurFest was intentional, the Chicago Tribune reports.

At approximately 12:40 a.m., first responders were called to investigate a “noxious odor” at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Rosement, which was hosting the Midwest FurFest. The Rosemont Public Safety department was called in and found a high level of chlorine gas in the air.

Authorities immediately ordered all the convention-goers — many of whom were in anthropomorphic animal costumes — to exit the building. They were not allowed to return until almost 4 a.m.

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MY FURRY EXHBIT BACK IN THE DAY~ CIRCA 2003

September 13 - 27, 2003     Rick Castro Presents  FUROTICA: It Ain't Exactly Bambi     Track 16 Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition Rick Castro Presents--FUROTICA: It Ain't Exactly Bambi. Rick Castro, director of the cult classic Hustler White and the new MTV documentary Plushies & Furries presents photographs and videos that document the underground "furry" lifestyle he experienced during the filming and production of Plushies & Furries. The exhibition runs from September 13 to September 27, 2003, with an opening reception on Saturday, September 13, from 6 to 9 P.M.     What are Furries? They are people who identify with anthropomorphized animals, (animals with human characteristics) in some cases they feel that they are, in fact, part animal. Since the early 1980s, a growing number of people from every walk of life and every part of the world have been introduced to the Furry lifestyle--in large part via the Internet--and now consider themselves "Furry." Furry is not so much a hobby or trend, but rather an identity. Consider this, is being gay only about gay sex? Is it a lifestyle, or does it consist of the complete identity of an individual? The same questions apply here. Furry could be the beginning of a whole new social identity: "transspecies."     The Furry trend has recently been written about in Vanity Fair, London Financial Times, Wired, Marie Claire, Filmmaker Magazine, Blue Magazine, and even appeared in an episode of E.R. Rick Castro's documentary~Plushies & Furries has screened at the American Cinemathéque, Outfest Los Angeles, Frameline San Francisco, the MIX Festival--NYC, the Milan Film Festival, the Montreal Gay Film Festival, the Seattle Gay Film Festival, and the Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney, as well as airing on MTV and Channel 5 UK.     The exhibition marks the first time that this material has been presented in a mainstream art venue in Los Angeles.     On Friday, September 19, Track 16 Gallery will screen the video, Plushies & Furries. The evening will include a question and answer period with Rick Castro, as well as a slide presentation. Admission is $5, and the event begins at 8 P.M. Rick Castro--delivering fetish to the mainstream. Get ready for a brave new fuzzy world!

MY GORILLA~ EXCERPTS

MY GORILLA

producded, styled & photographed~ RICKCASTRO.COM

sexy beast~ DAN LOVELL

my gorilla~ GLEN MEADMORE

gorilla costume~ HARWOOD LEE

leather jacket~ RICK OWENS

leather jock~ ABEL VILLAREAL

leather gloves~ ROUGH TRADE

leather shirt~ 665 LEATHER

fur blanket & leather bed~ IVANO REDAELLI