When Arthur Bates and Christopher Cascio arenยt rocking the crowd, theyยre decking the halls. The locals known in the music scene as Wicked Poseur are part of the art scene, too; each has created painstakingly detail-oriented drawings for the show ยObsessive Compulsive Awesomeย at ArtStorm.
Batesยs intricate black-and-white ink designs recollect Native American art, or maybe something lifted from an Asian rug. You can stare at the notebook-size work for hours trying to decipher how each piece ย each line, square, circle, triangle, etc. ย completes the whole. You can almost imagine Bates hunched over a sheet of paper carefully placing each zigzag so it doesnยt bleed or bump into the next.
Cascio creates lists of words that also decorate the pages he works on. Thick lines flowing down one page are made up of the repeated phrases ยyou dieย and ยwe ride.ย On another, lists of words pertaining to random themes crisscross the paper. See these and the other results of Bates and Cascioยs dueling OCD from noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Through March 22. ArtStorm, 708 Mathis. For information, call 713-802-0472 or visit www.artstormhouston.com. Free
Saturdays, Sundays. Starts: Feb. 23. Continues through March 22, 2008
This article appears in Mar 6-12, 2008.