The great English painter and satirist William Hogarth was born on this day in 1697. Best known for his scathing portrayals of all walks of life, his distinctive outlook is immortalized in the classic series A Rake’s Progress. Contemporary painter Charlie Billingham nods to this darkly humorous art historical legacy, with frothy wigs and swollen stomachs revealing a twisted take not only on Hogarth’s caricatures of his contemporaries, but of our own world as we know it today. This new work by Billingham is on display at Morán Morán in Los Angeles, in a new group show which opens today.
