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SUMMARY:Scooter LaForge: The Roaring 20s
DESCRIPTION:SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2021\nScooter LaForge: The Roaring 20s\nBooth # 1005 \nClick Here For Tickets\n625 Madison Avenue\nNew York\, NY 10022 \nHowl! Arts is pleased to present Scooter LaForge: The Roaring 20s at this year’s SPRING/BREAK curated by Jane Friedman and Carlo McCormick. LaForge explores the traditions and excesses of past decades in his mad\, colorful\, and comedic paintings influenced by popular culture and informed by razor-sharp contemporary commentary. \nFor the 2021 iteration of the fair\, LaForge presents a selection of large-scale paintings that hold a mirror to the liminal times we live in. Our environment\, permeated by a fear of death and the promise of relief from an invisible threat\, is rife with the by-products from this anxious state. The 1920s parallel 2020 in paintings that treat subjects as varied as vaccines and pandemics to the rise of organized crime and the debauched forgetfulness of “partying” contrasted by the search for what is real for each of us in these topsy turvy times. \nIn this series\, a time-space continuum sandwiches the spirit of a “new Roaring 20s” through imagery that uses the Brothers Grimm’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. The dwarves represent the moods of humanity\, while they indulge in the revelry of sex—“as above\, so below.” Memento mori\, like a “death is certain” banner\, envelop the dwarves\, who drink and smoke in a spirit of celebration and escape. Linking two pandemics—AIDS and COVID—the dwarves face the brunt of gay jokes as in the early days of the AIDS contagion: “What does gay stand for? Got AIDS yet?” An irreverent\, punk spirit infuses the images\, evoking the atmosphere of the present-day East Village: smoking\, drinking\, a blur of fast-moving crowds. \nOne of the works portrays insensibly ascribed names of pandemics: Spanish Flu\, China Virus\, Indian Delta Variant—interspersed with phrases like “God Hates Fags.” In the midst of blame and tension\, marginalized groups create safe spaces—like the drag balls in Hamilton Lodge in Harlem in the 1920s\, the euphoric jazz age—all part of the rise of art and expression after a pandemic. \nThe composition of the paintings references modern and old masters. There is a sense of multidimensionality—the collapsing of space and time—in these works. The truth is elusive\, but a sense of beauty prevails. Darkness and light coexist…like in our present times. \nScooter LaForge has delivered three years of exhibitions for Spring/Break including:\n• 2017: Fame is a Disease: newly commissioned work by LaForge that riffed on the themes and message of the late Vega’s painting series\,\n• 2018: Mt. Vesuvius Fire Sale highlighting amphora and paintings that might have been found at Pompeii and Herculaneum.\n• 2019: Please Don’t Feed the Animals featuring an immersive beastly banquet reminiscent of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner party\, that confronts the link between the global climate crisis and humanity’s hunger for and treatment of animals. \nAbout Scooter LaForge
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SUMMARY:James Rubio: Holograms and Hallucinations
DESCRIPTION:SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2021\nJames Rubio Holograms and Hallucinations\nBooth #1004 \nClick Here For Tickets\n625 Madison Avenue\nNew York\, NY 10022 \nFor SPRING/BREAK 2021\, Howl! Arts is pleased to present James Rubio’s Holograms and Hallucinations\, an immersive installation that envelops the viewer. Rubio’s show is curated by Howl Executive Director Jane Friedman and critic and cultural commentator\, Carlo McCormick.  \nIncluded are Rubio’s large-scale Prayer Paintings on mirrored surfaces that recall the stained glass of the great Gothic cathedrals. Like these cathedrals\, that manipulate light and color to dazzle worshippers\, Rubio’s intent is to transfix and transport the viewer to an altered space. The Prayer Paintings comment on the self-centered nature of prayer\, pointing out the triviality of appealing to a higher power with prayers for our own success and personal gain. Yet it is an act of heresy to call into question the very nature and intent of prayer. But Rubio’s works do exactly that\, revealing and questioning the inconsequentiality of our most fervent prayers. \nThe Infinite depth of these paintings is hypnotic\, as they shape-shift before your eyes\, and the over-the-top installation creates spaces that are both real and surreal\, warping and re-shaping reality as the viewer looks deeper. \nJames Rubio is an East Village artist whose work has appeared in shows\, festivals\, and fairs across six countries. Rubio studied photography at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago but fell in love with painting and street art later in New York City. In 2006\, Rubio joined the Antagonist Art Movement and began regularly exhibiting paintings at Niagara Bar. He has been invited to create and exhibit his large paintings in Mexico City and Chihuahua (Mexico)\, Ecuador\, Berlin (Germany)\, Lisbon (Portugal)\, Tehran (Iran)\, and New York City\, and was a popular Mana Urban Artist for a number of years.
URL:https://www.howlarts.org/event/james-rubio-holograms-and-hallucinations/
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