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Aside from their shared passion for heroes of the civil rights movement and unexplored music history, the thing Texas artists Tim Kerr and Robert Hodge have most in common is Russel Gonzalez. A gregarious music producer who also goes by the professional moniker “the ARE,” Gonzalez has orchestrated a collaboration between Hodge and Kerr in the vein of the Basquiat-Warhol partnership of the 1980s.Gonzalez is hardwired to stay alert for promotable happenings, and the idea to pair up Hodge and Kerr came after he saw paintings by the two artists side by side. It wasn’t just that the works used different techniques to speak to similar themes; Gonzalez also recognized that certain aspects of the artist’s perspectives mirrored the legendary Basquiat-Warhol collaboration. Most obviously, they…
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