Richard Billingham - Ray's A Laugh Smalltime Books imperceptible gradients

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This small volume makes for the sole exhibition of this remarkable work

but an alien landscape

young Detroit artist Hernan Bas's works simultaneously reference the romantic

His practice references historical drawing forms and grand architectural settings

Richard Billingham - Ray's A Laugh Smalltime Books imperceptible gradientsPhotographer and painter Richard Billingham (born 1970) grew up in a cramped, high rise tenement apartment with his mother and father in Birmingham, England. His father, Ray, was an unemployed, chronic alcoholic, often sleeping the whole day through, while Liz, Billinghams overweight and heavily tattooed mother, filled her home with porcelain dolls and jigsaw puzzles, housing ten cats and three dogs. These are Billinghams subjects. His images are raw,