Beauty Is Embarrassing + Q&A w/ Wayne White and Neil Berkeley
- Sat, Jan 4
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Neil Berkeley Run Time: 88 min. Release Year: 2012
Starring: Gary Panter, Lulu White, Mimi Pond, Wayne White, Woodrow White
Join The Orange County Center For Contemporary Art as they team up with The Frida Cinema to bring you a very special screening of the 2012 documentary Beauty Is Embarrassing followed by a discussion with Wayne White and Neil Berkeley!
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee’s Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work designing some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape paintings have made him a darling of the fine art world. The movie chronicles the vaulted highs and crushing lows of an artist struggling to find peace and balance between his professional work and his personal art. This is especially complicated for a man who struggles with the virtues he most often mocks in his art…vanity, ego and fame.
White’s multi-disciplinary career spans decades of influence in art, television, and pop culture.