THE ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, GALLERY
O ON H AND THE WEST END CINEMA PRESENT
A PREVIEW SCREENING
OF
BEAUTY
IS
EMBARRASSING
Directed by Neal
Berkeley
FREE SCREENING:
Tuesday, October 16 at 7:00pm
The Atlas - 1333 H Street Northeast Washington, DC
20002
RSVP for tickets at http://beautyisembarrassingdc.eventbrite.com/
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is
limited.
For over 30 years, Wayne White has
made an indelible mark on the creative world. As a designer, painter,
puppeteer, sculptor, and musician, Mr. White created images and ideas that are
an integral – yet sometimes subconscious – part of the pop culture lexicon. To
this day, he still gets up every morning to do the only thing his body and
mind were made to do…create. Whether the world acknowledges it or
not.
Part biography, part live
performance, Beauty Is Embarrassing, tells the irreverent and inspiring
story of this one-of-a-kind visual artist and raconteur. The film traces
White’s career from an underground cartoonist in New York’s East Village to his
big break as a designer, puppeteer and voice-over actor on Pee-wee’s
Playhouse for which he won three Emmy’s. It follows Wayne’s success
designing and animating for other children’s shows like Beakman’s World
and music videos for The Smashing Pumpkins (“Tonight, Tonight”) and Peter
Gabriel (“Big Time”) through a dark period of struggle and self-reflection
before emerging in his present-day incarnation as a respected painter and
performer. The film, like White, embraces the ragged edges and messy
contradictions of life, art, and family with rabid humor and
honesty.
ARTIST AND FILM SUBJECT WAYNE WHITE WILL APPEAR AT THE WEST END FOR A Q&A ON OCTOBER 20.
BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING OPENS EXCLUSIVELY AT THE WEST END CINEMA ON OCTOBER 19.
87 minutes •• not
rated••www.BeautyIsEmbarrassing.com
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