Dirtyland

01.19.10

Brian M. Viveros‘s work features tough, defiant dames with a cigarette eternally jutting from the corner of their lips in a rich, realistically rendered atmosphere of dark sensuality, abuse, and tainted innocence. Cuts, bandages, neck braces, helmets, and red roses abound. These girls are injured, but brazen and brave and graceful in the face of their injury, and ready for battle in their Mickey Mouse-ear helmets, though they seem to serenely disdain it. Sort of a twist on the classic pinup.