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JASON ROBERT BELL The One Man Army Corpse March 16 - April 28, 2012 Opening reception Friday March 16, 6:00 - 8:00PM Thomas Robertello Gallery is pleased to present The One Man Army Corpse: a solo exhibition by Brooklyn, New York based artist Jason Robert Bell. The exhibition opens with a public reception Friday March 16, 6:00 - 8:00PM and continues through April 28, 2012. The One Man Army Corpse presents a highly charged alternative reality in which monstrous totemic paintings and assemblages act as temple guardians to a new sacred text written by Bell: The White Feathered Octopus. This science fiction novel is presented as an element within a sculptural installation. All of the works in the exhibit are directly inspired by this limited edition text, which seeks to describe the superimposition of the human mind upon reality. Each work presented employs unexpected fusions of abstraction, figuration, and the readymade to confront issues of portraiture, social ills, personal loss, sexual dynamics, metaphysics, and contemporary art making itself, with absurd humor and phantasmagoric abandon. The paintings induce Pareidolia; the psychological visual phenomenon of seeing human faces, by use of materials culled from the discarded ruins of consumerism intermixed with deeply sentimental objects of the artist and fetishes of a world gone wrong. The material and emotional rawness of the work marks a dramatic shift for Bell. |
Thomas Robertello Gallery: The One Man Army Corpse, Portfoilo and Installation shots
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