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Loren Rhoads

For ten years, Loren Rhoads was the publisher and editor of the cult nonfiction magazine "Morbid Curiosity." She edited the books, Death's Garden: Relationships with Cemeteries and Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect. Loren's own nonfiction spans from... Read full bio

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Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
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By Loren Rhoads - June 2, 2010
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The look of Morbid Curiosity magazine was defined by underground and outsider artists.  Drawing from punk rock collage, Goth fashion design, and fine arts photography, the magazine's illustrators explored the inevitability of decay, especially the beauty of the skull beneath the skin.
Morbid Curiosity editor Loren Rhoads has gathered prints, photographs, collages, and original artwork to showcase her favorite images from magazine and the book Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues:  True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox, and Usual. Featured artists include Dorian Katz, R. Samuel Klatchko, M. Parfitt, Erik Quarry, Suzanne Dechnik, Mike Hunter, Chris Schnapp, Hugues Leblanc, Kimberlee Traub, and Timothy Renner.

Artwork from the cult magazine Morbid Curiosity & the book Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Tales of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox, and Unusual will be for sale in June at

The Borderlands Café

870 Valencia Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

between 19th and 20th Streets



Join us for the opening

Friday, June 4 at 7-9 p.m.

 

More info:

(415) 970-6998

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