Solo Show at Happy Gallery: Wicked Games
Wicked Games, inspired by Chris Isaak’s pop hit of 1989 and the music video thereof, is a collection of work about the struggle for control of femme sexuality, and the compression of the erotic into esoteric, evocative, absurd and illegible formats as a method of defense. Surrendering and refusing responsibility for feelings evoked and projected, these works resort to dreams, code, deliberate unfairness, rage, jokes, wikipedia, and telepathy in a desperate attempt to maintain plausible deniability. Power is hidden and joy takes flight.
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Altar, installation of discarded Nick Cave sewn circus tent; table; vintage window with hot-glue collage; christmas lights; animal figurines in ceramic, wood, metal and stone; vintage textile with lace muses, cast paper leaves with writing. Detail of hot glue transfer collage
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Bathtub Fates, watercolor and pastels; bakelite spool; silver thread
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Endymion/Land Abuse: pencil, pen, watercolor on found environmental education prints, collage, movable magnetic elements (lion-man and TV), mounted on music stand and metal strips
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Blue Torso, oil pastels.
1561 Nuremberg, collage with plastic and metal elements, pencil on found images from environmental education prints.
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Calendar, pencil on paper, paper and metal ladders, collage
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Tetrapods, Ink on paper. Accompanying printed screenshot of a Facebook Messenger conversation:
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Damselfly, watercolor pencil, sewn semamori, plastic pearl, part of a larger installation
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Pin the Sword on Nemesis, collage, watercolor pencil, paper tape, leather “scabbard,” sword stickers, painted and appliqued blindfold. Assisted by Fontaine Capel, video by Paul Hermanson.
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