(Spoiler alert: Plot details from Breaking Bad follow in this gallery.) New exhibition The Breaking Bad Art Project is loaded with imagery inspired by the arresting AMC series, like Untitled Walter White Detail by Mike Mitchell.
Who knew five years ago that a cancer-stricken school teacher named Walter White would become the baddest meth-making brainiac to hit prime time since, well, forever? Yet Bryan Cranston’s Breaking Bad antihero, his protégé Jesse Pinkman and their criminally depraved circle of friends and enemies have struck a deep, dark chord with viewers.
Midway through its two-part final season, the addictive AMC series has inspired The Breaking Bad Art Project, an exhibit that showcases big-name artists’ interpretations of the twisted psychic landscape envisioned by Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. Like the deceptively bland, sun-bleached New Mexico killing floor that serves as setting for Breaking Bad, these art pieces simmer with weirdly hypnotic glimmers of deceit, greed and ingenuity.
The exhibition, organized by Breaking Gifs, opens Monday night and runs through Aug. 26 at Los Angeles’ Gallery 1988. Check out The Breaking Bad Art Project’s portraits of high-strung criminals in the gallery above.
Images courtesy Sony Pictures Television, Breaking Gifs and Gallery 1988
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