Edward Walton Wilcox invites us to take a second look at the decadence of the times with his gothic translation of iconographic images like Marilyn. Based in LA, Wilcox has an upcoming exhibition in March titled “Are You Going With Me?” at the Ambrogi Castanier Gallery in West Hollywood.

Merging classical technique with modern perception, Wilcox's work is a commentary on a society clasping to garish distractions as a means of escaping the inevitable downfall. His art stands as a moral critique of a world attempting to shroud itself in beauty and diversion in the midst of its own collapse.

His intention is for the work to have a preternatural effect on the viewer; evoking at times a sense of awe, terror, insignificance, romantic sensuality, allusions to our self destructive nature, the temporal nature of beauty and life, and the decay of the material world as a constant of which we are always aware. See more of his haunting images on his website.

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