Max Brand at Off Vendome

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"They manage to look refreshing but not unexpected" says R. Smith spit-firing painters to see what would stick attending the flavors in the stew. Seeing the soup for its referents and judging hazy memories of once distinct tastes roiling in the surface. The consommé so clarified as to not single out any one flavor, any one referent, everything so blended, you could just keep naming ingredients. Which is where we're at today. Soup easy to mass produce, a base prepared in advance can be used to a support a wide and readily available ingredients on its surface.


see too: Sanya Kantarovsky at Marc Foxx, Joanne Greenbaum at Crone, Vittorio Brodmann at Halle Für Kunst Lüneburg, Heather Guertin at Brennan & Griffin,

Sam Anderson at Off Vendome

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Like pigeon spikes the objects ward off landing platforms, nowhere to quite sit well, and a good way to lose an eye, like traps, a high surface area to volume content, sort of abjectionably awful but functional, things you really don’t want near your eyes but love for the fret they cause, strange frentic things.