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Written by Joe DiRosa
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P·P·O·W is pleased to announce Reality Unchecked, a group show of
five artists working in a variety of mediums. This exhibit focuses on a
persistent presence of contemporary artwork that is made in a highly
realistic manner but is barely credible as documentary. A sense
of fiction as reality pervades all these works, providing a mirror to
the government spin of our current political and cultural moment.
COLLEEN ASPER received her MFA from Yale University (2004) and will be
attending Skowhegan in the summer of 2006. Her work has been
shown internationally, including Deitch Projects and Alona Kagan
Gallery in New York. In this exhibit, Asper will show a series of
paintings in which she presents herself as the President of the United
States. “The idea of myself as President is an absurd solution to the
frustration we all feel as individuals trying to imagine how we can
affect political change”, says Asper.
ANGELA FRALEIGH received her MFA from Yale University (2003) and has
recently exhibited at Inman Gallery in Texas. Fraleigh
contributes two new oil paintings to this exhibit, in which she
portrays herself in an ambiguous state as both victim and
volunteer. She describes her work as questioning social
constructs of beauty, class, gender and role play.
NATHAN SKILES received his MFA from Montclair State University (2004)
and has shown in group shows across the Northeast. Skile’s
sculptures create quasi-metaphysical tales out of craft materials such
as styrofoam, felt and cardboard. “Through visual asides my work
describes how an ideology based on absurdity can sustain personal
meaning with the locus between fact and fiction” says Skiles.
ADAM STENNETT has shown both nationally and internationally with
several one-person shows at 31Grand in Williamsburg. At PPOW, Stennett
will show a video entitled Prospect Park Fight Fuck. The video takes
place in a scale model of Prospect Park where two male mice fight over
several female mice, knocking down trees and causing mayhem. The audio
combines the sounds of the mice determining dominance with a track of
the artist calmly talking about seeing a kid being beaten with a
baseball bat in his neighborhood and the ensuing difficult attempt to
report it to the police.
ERIC WHITE, went to the Rhode Island School of Design and has been
showing his paintings in solo and group shows since 1998. White’s
paintings jump with dynamic juxtapositions that relate to surveillance
and political control. Both disturbing and engaging each painting
involves the viewer in a paranoid and erotic socio-political satire.
P·P·O·W
555 W 25th Street
(between 10th and 11th Avenues)
New York, NY 10001
www.ppowgallery.com
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