Ray also a graphic designer, designed most of his film posters, combining folk-art and calligraphy to create themes ranging from mysterious, surreal to comical; an exhibition his posters was held at British Film Institute in 2013.
As with many 80s pop icons, it is easy to recall his flamboyant camp as faintly comical, but the exhibition is a startling reminder of his commitment to an aesthetic that was fanatically detailed, highly imaginative and heavily influenced by the sensibility of punk.
"The Love Life of the Spumifers," at Ubu Gallery, is an exhibition of erotic yet comical works.
Paul Roberts, who curated the British Museum exhibition, comments on the "comical and very un-Roman" spirit of another fresco done in a comparable mood.
A remarkable thing about the exhibition is that much of it is in a comical vein, like Mr. McKenzie's work.
Among this exhibition's assorted paintings by unknown amateurs are works of comical ineptitude, off-beat invention and nutty, perverse or ridiculously banal imagery.
The exhibition has a modest flame-tail lion and a superb flame-tail griffin with a big, slightly comical beak.
Through June 15 In this exhibition's four giant photographs, the versatile Vancouver artist Rodney Graham ponders a man's middle age with comical ennui.
