June 15, 2005

Adam Parfrey and The Feral House Archives Exhibition Opening Reception

Friday, July 8, 2005 - 7pm to 11pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Please list the following in your calendar.

Ghettogloss Gallery is proud to present:
Adam Parfrey and The Feral House Archives Exhibition Opening Reception

Friday, July 8, 2005 - 7pm to 11pm
Available to View thru Sunday, August 7, 2005

Ghetto Gloss
2380 Glendale Blvd.
Silverlake, CA 90039

ADAM PARFREY AND GHETTOGLOSS will be exhibiting a show different from all others, the epic unveiling of the Feral House archives. Parfrey has come across and stored away a massive collection of occult artifacts over the years, and finally, with a little nudging from longtime friend and owner of Ghettogloss, Fiora, he has decided to open his treasure chest, blow the dust off his collectibles, and make them for sale to the public. This is a rare moment in time to obtain, or at least view, the impressive antiquities never before seen and possibly never to be seen again.

What started in 1989 to illustrate the hidden facts of cultural anomalies is now the well-known publishing icon, Feral House, founded and spearheaded by Adam Parfrey. Notorious for unconformity, Parfrey has published scores of books, ranging from The Satanic Witch in the early days of Feral House to It’s a Man’s World, a compilation of men’s adventure magazines, to The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin, each informative with extensive facts as well as illustrated with obscure artifacts and artwork.

Adam Parfrey is known as the man who dives into the forbidden and explores every taboo corner he can find, then with grinning pride, trumpets the newfound enlightenment. In the process of doing this, Parfrey has amassed strange and singular items, art or objects, genuine to the era or culture of twisted interest.

From a recent book Extreme Islam: Anti-American Propaganda of Muslim Fundamentalism, propaganda posters of Bin Laden are rolled up in Parfrey’s house. From It’s a Man’s World, cover pages and interior illustrations from the old pulp magazines are stacked in a suitcase. He has, in his closet, a collection of what is known as “Sots Art” paintings, Russian art from the ‘70s and ‘80s satirically combining Socialist icons such as Lenin or Stalin with American corporate iconography such as McDonalds or even Kotex. Stored away are illustrations used in the book Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs, by artists Daniel Clowes, Bill Ward, Peter Bagge, Sarita Vendetta and others. A portrait done and signed by Jack Kevorkian, “Dr. Death” himself, sits by the rest just aching to be seen.

Needless to say, there is a plethora of collectibles, a variety of endlessly intriguing realities, in the form of art. It’s a fascinating conglomeration of work, some eccentric and brilliant, some shockingly real and maybe frightening. All of it, however, is powerful to experience, the quintessence of generally unknown culture.

With an unabashed disregard for conservatism Ghettogloss and Adam Parfrey present the Feral House Archives Exhibition, displaying the comprehensive aggregation of items unique to Parfrey and Feral. Opening Reception Friday, July 8, 2005 from 7pm to 11pm. The collection is available to view thru Sunday, August 7, 2005.

June 15, 2005

Adam Parfrey and The Feral House Archives Exhibition Opening Reception

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