Fetish Photographer Dirk Hooper Displays at Allentown’s Freak Out Festival

June 17, 2010 - PRLog -- ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, June 17, 2010 – World-renowned fetish photographer Dirk Hooper will have two pieces on display at the “Buffet of Lowbrow” group exhibition.  Hooper’s canvas art prints will be part of a show featuring over twenty invited artists Push Art Gallery in Allentown, Pennsylvania.  The “Buffet of Lowbrow” group exhibition will begin Saturday, June 19 during Allentown’s “Freak Out Festival.”

Dirk Hooper said, “The gang at Push Art Gallery is really doing an amazing job of presenting interesting and cutting-edge art.  I’m proud to be a part of this show because I admire the work of the other artists so much.”  Hooper’s contributions are two canvas halftone art prints.  One print, titled “Zing” features Toxic Goddess Selkie in a Shibari rig.  The second print, co-created with photographer Robert Henry and featuring Toxic Goddess Kali, was the first canvas halftone art print Hooper designed titled “Out of Sight”.

Other artists in the “Buffet of Lowbrow” show are:
•   Miss Doodleface
•   Michael Parsons
•   D’story and Rebuild
•   URNewYork
•   George Schmauch
•   Joshua Belanger
•   Bradley Hoffer
•   Time Pangburn
•   Daniel Stigler
•   Pork Chop
•   Squindo
•   KonniK
•   JoKa
•   Jeff Noti
•   Ed Mironiuk
•   Dan Harding
•   John Kolbek
•   Adam Kuder
•   Matt Deterior
•   Justin Stewart
•   Lorna Doone
•   Scott Nichol
•   Scott Church

“Buffet of Lowbrow” will be part of Allentown’s “Freak Out Festival” on Saturday, June 19th.  The opening for the show will begin at 1 p.m. and run until 8 p.m. Art N Soul Studios at 516 West Hamilton Street.  The surf-punk band “The Great White Caps” will be live and there will be a live graffiti mural painting by New York City’s URNewYork and Konnik.
For more information on the event please call Art N Soul Studios at (610) 656-0077 or visit http://artnsoulstudios.com.  

If you are interested in an interview with Dirk Hooper, he can be reached by emailing info@sightkey.com or through his website http://www.DirkHooper.com.

Dirk Hooper is a world-renowned fetish and fantasy photographer, fine artist, and writer whose work has been described as “forbidden tales to rival the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and the Marquis de Sade.”  Dirk’s publishing credits include such diverse media as comic books, music CDs, art books and slick fetish magazines like “Von Gutenberg.”  He has also cultivated a reputation as a fine artist in established venues like the prestigious Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum and as an underground visionary in galleries like “the Dirty Show” in Detroit, “Fetish Project” in Brussels, Belgium, “Siberia” in Utrecht, the Netherlands and “Accumulate” in Hong Kong, China.  Dirk has work in the permanent collection of the Kinsey Institute based at Indiana University.  Dirk Hooper is the host and creator of “The Fetish Show” podcast and actively helps artists and writers with self-promotion and social networking.