RADICAL FUN isn’t showing up with clean hands and quiet whispers—it’s storming in with paint under its nails and a laugh that echoes off the walls. This isn’t your tidy, tastefully-muted art night. It’s a full-tilt collision of color, rebellion, and raw creative voltage.
Think: street art fever dreams, sculptures that look like they were born in a junkyard uprising, and a vibe somewhere between a late-night dive bar hallucination and a fine dining roller rink. It’s weird. It’s loud. It’s alive.
We’re bringing together 13 unruly visual artists across every medium you can imagine (and a few you can’t). Up next: Auguster D. Williams Jr., (featured above on our show poster) conjuring surreal worlds where color and form dance like dreams, and Charles Spurrier, whose creations invite you in and demand a conversation.
Auguster D. Williams Jr. (Gus) didn’t find art—it found him, somewhere between memory and momentum, during an art therapy session with the VA. A U.S. Navy veteran turned collage conjurer, his very first piece, Dropped Anchor, in the art world by winning the 2018 National Veterans Creative Arts Award.
Since then, Gus has been crafting visual worlds that hum with funk, memory, and magic. A proud member of the Peekskill Arts Alliance, he’s shown his work across New York—including the Peekskill Open Studios, Newburgh Open Studios, and Gritworks Gallery—each piece like a map made from rhythm and reverie.
His recent exhibits include “A Toast To The Boogie: Art In The Name of Funk(adelic)” with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and “Just Above My Head” at the Art of Noize Gallery in Washington, DC.
Gus’s art is a mixtape of experience, imagination, and raw visual poetry. Expect color that dances, shapes that riff, and stories stitched together from the beautifully unexpected.
Featured above is “A Forgetting”, one of Charles’s Radical Fun pieces.
Charles Spurrier creates like someone who’s seen the inside of a storm and decided to bottle the lightning. Born in Cleveland and sharpened by Yale, his path is a collision of rigor, rebellion, and relentless imagination. After earning his B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Art and his M.F.A. from Yale, he was launched into the art world with fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center, eventually making New York City his creative stomping ground in 1987.
Spurrier’s canvases vibrate like live wires—work that’s earned him grants (including the Pollock-Krasner) and invitations to residencies and institutions across the country. He’s been a visiting artist, lecturer, and critic at places like Yale/Norfolk, SVA, VCU, and Chautauqua, lighting up minds as much as gallery walls.
His art has traveled far—exhibited everywhere from The Brooklyn Museum to London, São Paulo, and beyond. It lives in collections that include MoMA, The Met, The Fogg, and Progressive Corp, proof that his vision resonates with both the avant-garde and the institution.
Prepare to unravel, explode, and rewire—RADICAL FUN is barging in to torch the ordinary and throw glitter on the wreckage. Sneak a peek at our inaugural opening May 10th!