Chadwick Rantanen at Michael Benevento Gallery & Aria Dean at Progetto

(Benevento, Progetto)

Silent instruments, silence musicians. Artists castrate sound. What is the resonance of mute instrument? What is the sound of one hand clapping? Between the form and the lost notes is the gap, the fissure allowing the viewer fill meaning in that distance. Blue ball you until you mean it. 

Martín Soto Climent at Michael Benevento Gallery

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Sprinkling charcoal through panties, you would think these would be sexier than they are. Gartered paintings instead cut and and framed to chaste design, to art. But what is sexy has been ruined by artists for years, bodies crumpled like cans for composition, for harmony among shape, among mind, and so these have a long lineage to work with.