Mighty mighty, lettin’ it all hang out …

I don’t know a whole lot about painter Andy Cunningham. He’s won several awards at Roseville art shows; he taught some art classes at Rio Linda High School; and he studied art at the California College of Arts and Crafts, UC Davis and New York’s Hunter College. But his abstract acrylic paintings are another story: Think M.C. Escher turned loose in the land of Gumby and Pokey, or tribal cave paintings—if prehistoric artists had access to spray paints and knew a bit about tagging. Cunningham’s “Transparency Machine,” for example, reeks of Rube Goldberg weirdness, and “Tangle on Blue” has an under-the-freeway hieroglyphic quality that hints at deeper mysteries. And there’s much more. Cunningham’s art will be on display this month at the BrickHouse Gallery in Oak Park, at 2837 36th Street just off Broadway. There will be a Second Saturday reception on December 11 at the gallery, from 6 to 10 p.m.