Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based artist Andy Kehoe has a new show on at Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York.  “Strange Wanderings”, Kehoe’s second solo exhibition at the gallery  “features a series of oil and acrylic paintings on wood panel, expanding upon Kehoe’s allegorical compositions, painted in his signature low-key palette of rich earth tones and autumnal colors, accented by fine, black line-work. Most of the artist’s subjects are animal-human hybrids, dressed in fine suits, sometimes smoking cigarettes or pipes, often horned, hoofed, or beaked and covered with fur or feathers. In this fantastical world, frolicking foxes and cats walk on hind legs, forest spirits linger behind tree trunks, creatures peer from above the forest canopy and silhouetted shadows fade into the mist.

Kehoe’s aesthetic is largely inspired by traditional folktales and mythological art. His narratives contain primordial themes of love, fear, mortality, alienation, greed, deception and betrayal. Nostalgic for a time before the age of science and reason, Kehoe’s work rekindles a childlike sense of wonder, recalling an era when fables and legends were believed as truths to explain each and ever.” (from Jonathan Levine Gallery)

“Strange Wanderings” runs through April, 2 2011.  To see more of Andy Kehoe’s work, visit AndyKehoe.net.