La Cienega Area

Francis Meyrier is a Parisian magazine and advertising illustrator. That information is available in the gallery’s brochure, but it also screams loudly from every canvas of his kitschy “I Do” series. Meyrier’s shtick is vapid facial caricature mixed with body-beautiful come-ons. The whole business is processed with a slick overlay of curvilinear texture-lines, as if to say: hey, this is really complicated art!

We follow a couple through their wedding day, viewing them on the steps of the church (their demurely clothed selves “imprinted” with elements of the architecture), after the French civil ceremony at city hall (the bridal gown is semi-transparent for a view of the bride’s bulging body), raucously mugging for the photographer, just before the bride grimly attacks the cake, naked in the bedroom under a drift of peek-a-boo wedding dress gauze, and so on.

What began as inept, hit-you-over-the-head social commentary drifts into a sort of updated White Rock girl fantasy and then into campy portraits of the couple (“The Bride is Happy,” “The Bridegroom is Happy Too”) in gauzy headdresses, sticking out their tongues. Yeah, it’s a farce, all right, but the joke is on M. Meyrier. (Boyd-Sherrel, 8021 Melrose Ave., to Dec. 1.)