Mark A. Rodriguez at Park View/Paul Soto

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Too bad that "meme" came to mean the whatever-viral-image, rather than its original broader biological definition of any self-replicating social phenomenon. The specificization snipped a useful term for the reproduction/evolution of ideas/ideology, the way we pass along and create thought, deem it useful. Socrates' words living on in 2020 is a meme; Rupert Murdoch invented a memetic form of conservative dogma. The survivability of ideas. It's not propaganda but a much more supple thing, the ability to be not just striking images, but echoing on. To make ideology replicate, teach children thumbs up from thumbs down.

J. Parker Valentine at Park View

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Valentine's drawings entail expectations of legibility depictive of some tip-of-the-tongue subject within a library of means detailing the amorphous thing it circles but fails to produce. There is the lure of subject object, the thing that will at any moment manifest itself in the definitive lines of drawing schematizing, hypothesizing, its existence alongside the slide show's equal directness that again begins circling its subject over the course of its ribs. Parker is good at this, at making the object appear as though right around the corner, in the next slide, on the next page, in the next sentence.