Alexandra Noel at Antenna Space, Shanghai

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CAWD wrote the release for this. Go check it and the show. 

Past: Alexandra Noel at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Atlantis 

Alexandra Noel at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Atlantis

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Of the kids today raised on cartoons and adopting surrealism, Noel's slightness is a psychic mess, more pollution than collage, tinged with repression. The shadow of a plane is the specter haunting here, but throughout is an "offness" that is more motion sickness than fear. Like Gertrude Abercrombie, or Goodnight Moon, an unease in desolate scenes in omnipresent sourceless light. Or Ken Price's drawings, his own harsh light of LA, ominous in shadows looking like oil, a lack of light which threatened to become physical thing, ink, creep from the cracks, precipitate from the air, cover everything. Noel's light too, toxic, the haze as permanent fixture, everything feeling smogged, poisoned. Pollution as repression, spectacular sunsets, and black oil beneath feet. The 9/11 in everyone's bedroom.


See too: Gertrude Abercrombie at Karma

“Comforter” at Shanaynay

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It would be great if there were a Kyōsai Kawanabe resurgence today, in the clean white setting of contemporary exhibition. That late 1800's traditional japanese painting looks more and more contemporary with time, apt to the surge of comics today. Starting to look futuristic.

See too : "Puddle, pothole, portal" at Sculpture Center, Dave Miko, Ned Vena, Antek Walczak at Algus Greenspon