Looking backward: Bob Dob’s ShockBoxx show makes the case that “You Should’ve Been Here Yesterday”
Artist Bob Dob’s work looks at the faces and figures from his Hermosa adolescence, including an imagined statue of Pennywise guitarist Fletcher Dragge. Images courtesy Bob Dob Artist Bob Dob has been kicking around the idea of a contest for the opening of his upcoming show “You Should’ve Been Here Yesterday.” He would put tiny numbers next to some of the people depicted in his paintings, and then have gallery-goers fill out sheets of paper, trying to guess who each tagged figure was. The winner would get some kind of prize. The arrangement is used by everyone from art historians to pub trivia quizmasters. But what makes Dob’s version different is that the people depicted are not historical eminences or tabloid celebrities, but personalities and symbols intimately connected with the South Bay in which he grew up. The pictures Dob created for the show, which debuts Saturday night at ShockBoxx on Cypress Avenue, are painted in the artistic equivalent of invisible ink. Some depict characters like Flip Jack or the Lady in White, homeless people who once had a prominent place in Hermosa Beach’s imagination, but haven’t been around for years. The idea sprang from conversations between…
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