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Tragedy in Pop: Joshua Gage

"So, what are you doing tonight?"

Until January 09,

Gage’s vibrant depictions of tragic events in history portray ominous scenes in a startling palette suggesting the iconography of the events. In one scene, KKK members are taking a stroll during the day—the idea is alarming by automated response, however in bubble gum pinks and powder blues, the image triggers confusion of the senses. The automation of response in an unorthodox approach to style, color and subject matter facilitates a questionable reaction.

The artist is presenting an approach of how intellectual and emotional expectations of [tragic events] influence our perceptions. By prompting the viewer to explore expectations of automated response, he is questioning what happens to the subject so routinely experienced in the language of gravitas when it is presented in frivolity. It is the proposition of the series that the human experience can be at once both powerful and perfunctory visceral and dismissive. While the power and viscera may be appropriate, they may not be genuine. His goal is not a more accurate perception, it is not even necessarily a different perception—it is simply a more endogenous perception.

CHC Gallery

Tue-Sat 10-6

West 20th Street, New York, New York, 10011

212.741.0007

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Satellite of Love: Randy Polumbo

Until December 19,
Polumbo recontextualizes objects, ideas and technologies, disorienting yet deeply nourishing us upon entrance to his playful and provocative world. In Satellite of Love, the artist presents fresh works that take his approach to new heights in terms of elementally charged materials, provocative forms and rich symbolism. Tiny abstract flower videos pollinate walls and surfaces, and cast illuminated glass nipples sprout like mushrooms. Cast lead crystal Hermes Birkin bags are filled with blown glass simulations after mass market sex toys, which in turn are illuminated by tiny solar panels. Questions of beauty, libidinal economies, and propagation are spun from the contrast between our public faces and private appetites. Polumbo’s techno-organic garden crystallizes an altered perspective or, perhaps, illuminates a soulful path to our coordinates in the present.

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