I Brought The Gutter by Sean Dietrich

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I Brought The Gutter by Sean Dietrich

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As San Diego’s top live painter for the past 10 years, artist Sean Dietrich has brought the whiskey, the bile and brawling violence to a staid art scene, shaking its brains into baby mush. Now, with the release of I Brought the Gutter, a 180-page compendium compiling his best work from over 700 live performances, Dietrich imposes his dark and disturbing vision on the masses. God help them. Inspired by Ralph Steadman, the notorious English artist best known for his work with gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, Dietrich tackles a society obsessed with sex and death. He creates a war-torn world populated with hypodermic savages, Nazi pin-up girls, doll-eyed innocents, missile-riding patriots and Chesire cats armed to the last of their yellow teeth. I Brought the Gutter includes essays written by Dietrich that provide a glimpse into his rage and booze-fueled inspirations, graphically illustrating a decade-long battle he has waged to inject a sense of danger into a comfortable and careful Southern California art scene. This is the third book Dietrich has published in the past three months. September saw the release of Bubbles from Atlantis by Richard A. Webster, a hallucinatory memoir documenting the insanity of life in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and The Fruits of our Labor by Rachel Andrews and Lexi Sadler, a children’s book about the importance of a healthy diet. Dietrich provided the illustrations for both works. In December Dietrich kicks off a promotional tour that will take him to Hollywood, Las Vegas, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego and New Orleans. “This isn't some sad tale of an artist waiting in a Depression era breadline with holes in his shoes and the ashes of his dreams falling off the end of a cheap rolled smoke,” Dietrich writes in I Brought the Gutter. “This is the modern world filled with all the blazing fast Internet connections and sleek cell phones. This is the sinking ship I was born onto 33 years ago, where I've fought long and hard to climb up the ever increasing incline to get to the top of the boat where I can look out, and see the leaky life rafts with Tradition, Honor, and Morality scooping out the water with rusty buckets. In all honesty, this period in humanity is just the biggest load of horseshit we've ever lived through.” Sean Dietrich currently resides in San Diego. Hs published works include industriacide, Fervor, Mess and Catalepsy. His next book, The Nazi and the Rabbit, another collaboration with author Richard A. Webster, is due in 2011.