Allan McCollum at Mary Boone

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McCollum's brute force attack on "creativity," ironizing uniqueness with its interminable variation, like try and stand out in this crowd kid, pulling out the cornerstones of value with machine made uniqueness, the scary "algorithm," and handcrafted replaced with stand-ins, surrogates, and stage props. Making uniqueness bland. How cruel. Showing on the doll where the creativity hurt him. It all ends in death. Did you think your bones were unique. etc.


See too: Rob Pruitt at MOCAD

Sadie Benning at Mary Boone & Callicoon Fine Arts

(Mary Boone & Callicoon Fine Arts)

Cushioning their hard edges with padded walls of cartoons that allowed the wiley Coyote to suffer enormous blunt trauma because he was soft stretchable taffy amplifying the ambiguity of Benning's drawing against the inserted images which are hard immalleable records against the malleable flesh of the body, the equally amorphous icons.