Palmers work blends word and image anticipating Raymond Pettibon and David ShrigleyNew York and Floridabased artist Roger Clay Palmer born 1947 has been painting drawing and writing for over 50 years. Inspired by the Southern oral tradition of his youth his experiences in the army as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War and Japanese haiga and Zenga Palmer blends word and image anticipating artists like Raymond Pettibon and David Shrigley to a darkly humorous sometimes difficult effect. Palmers witty grisly animals figures and cityscapes are paired with phrases like lightning storm while buried with your cat or was a time of day when the bulls and I got real bad ideas at exactly the same time. Together they reveal in the artists words the rage longing sadness courage and grace in American culture.With a focus on recent work Roger Clay Palmer brings together 60 exemplary paintings on paper and organizes them thematically with sections focused on his depictions of animals eyes landscapes and war.