MOBA

The "Bright Colors / Dark Emotions" exhibition opened at MOBA's [Museum Of Bad Art] original gallery, in the basement of a private home in Boston. The show centered around a collection of eight paintings pulled from the same trash pile.

On a cool, windy August night, Scott Wilson, MOBA curator, came upon a discovery that would change his life and the future of this museum.

"It was big, I just didn't know how big" said Wilson, recalling the moment of discovery.

He ordered the car to stop, "backup" he screamed.

As he leapt from the car, the top most painting blew from the pile. The one below was even worse!. One, two .. seven, eight .. each one worse than the last.

"I laughed, I wept, I danced in the street".

"What is it? Who did them?" called a voice from the car.

"It's unknown" Scott replied, "It's Unknown"

The Museum of Bad Art is a community-based, private institution dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms and in all its glory.

The pieces in the MOBA collection range from the work of talented artists that have gone awry, to works of exuberant, although crude, execution by artists barely in control of the brush. What they all have in common is a special quality that sets them apart in one way or another from the merely incompetent.