Why would you base an entire exhibition around a visual image that strikes fear in the hearts of many? (There’s a name for it in fact, coulrophobia.)
That’s what we asked Bruce Helford of Los Angeles’s Corey Helford Gallery whose current show Clowns! — which features work from up-and-coming artists like Gary Baseman, Shag, Tokidoki, Colin Christian, Dave Kinsey, Chris Anthony, Natalia Fabia, Buff Monster, Joe Ledbetter, Audrey Kawasaki, D*Face, Chloe Early, Word To Mother, and Will Barras — makes us want to cry.
As the creator of the short-lived TV series Freddie, he’s probably used to fielding that type of question. His response after the jump.
