Fawn Gehweiler (HF Vol.4) and Dana Carlson's Pink Worlds and White Icing show opens this Friday, May 23, at After Modern Gallery in San Francisco. The show furthers both artists' fascination with saccharine-coated dark humor and fashion-filled themes."

Awash in preteen nostalgia, strangely baroque and alternately naive, precocious, and deeply introspective, these tiny poems about "color, the Beatles, bubblegum, nature, and the universe" lend both a perfect title and backdrop to their respective "candy-colored dreamscapes and imaginary narratives of head-in-the-clouds teenage psychedelia."

Here are a few words about the show from Fawn and some Hi-Fructose preview images (as well as a picture of some paint jars we want to eat):

"For this show, inspired both by the title of a book written by a 12 year old girl and my co-exhibitor, the magical Miss Dana Carlson, who creates some of the most darkly whimsical paintings I have ever seen, my main goal was to capture and hopefully retain a greater sense of play and irreverence in my work, while simultaneously celebrating a recent move to the wide open spaces of the Pacific Northwest by working on pieces that are larger than ever, resulting in both a suite of revisionist royal portraits recast with historical ruffians and ragamuffins"

"Thematically, as always, I find my art at a crossroads between personal iconography, fashion history and armchair cultural anthropology. I work from my own childhood references (growing up practically feral), visit my long lost cultural history as a kind of virtual dressing up box (bavarian kitsch), and obsess over the imaginary tribal costumes of imaginary youth cultures and the notion of dressing up as a subversive act inherited from my parents generation; their inappropriately appropriated military regalia, moth eaten furs, and victorian excess worn with sheer irreverence will maybe never cease to be one of my primary influences and definitely reflects more and more in my new work as time goes on! "