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David Lynch's Twisted Art

The acclaimed director talks to Peter Owen Nelson about his new show of surrealist paintings and mixed media assemblages. Plus, VIEW OUR GALLERY.

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Courtesy GRIFFIN, Santa Monica

“You idiot.”

David Lynch was talking to himself about Velcro. Inside his 6-by-9 ft. 325-lb. mixed media painting I Burn Pinecone, a lightbulb burned out, due to a faulty socket.

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