Clients & projects
W.K. Lyhne: We Are All Animals
W K Lyhne’s 14 ft high paintings tower over the visitor; sex and death are on a confrontational scale. We feel at the mercy of a massive, predatory masked nude, uncomfortably close to a masturbating woman and unwilling onlookers at an abattoir, where a butcher is setting to work on a slaughtered ox. Depicted life size, we as viewers becomes participant and complicit in the scene, unable to tear ourselves away.
Celebrated restauranteur and Cock ‘n’ Bull Gallery owner Mark Hix hosted this exhibition off-site to accommodate the scale of the paintings. “The work of this painter is not for the faint-hearted,” he said. “The paintings confront the big issues head on, and on imposing scale. The result is sexy, fleshy, political.”