<DIV><DIV><B>The beautiful and delicate world of airbrushed hosers.<BR><BR></B></DIV><DIV>Seth Scriver's work is filled with lumpy men and women plucked from rural Canada—thick mustaches, plaid shirts, and winter caps exchanging non sequiturs and one-liners. Airbrushed Garfields, packs of wild dogs, flocks of birds, and more packs of wild dogs race through Scriver's paintings and drawings. Part of a crew of Canadian doodlers—like-minded folks such asMarc Bell (<I>Hot Potatoe</I>, <I>The Stacks</I>), Peter Thompson (<I>Lucky Ello</I>), Amy Lockhart (<I>Amethyst Tinlegs</I>), and Keith Jones (<I>Bacter-Area</I>)—Scriver exemplifies amodern cartoon-painting aesthetic, a type of fantasy world created through a stream-of-consciousness drawing style. His drawings present a palpable view of a hectic world in which cartoon bears and hunters engage in slapstick adventures.</DIV></DIV>