December 7 - November 22, 2019
“Sonnenberg’s latest body of work, created in the shadow of the election of Donald Trump, poses a question: Will we surrender to the dark times or will we rise up and move forward? He explores this question, as well as life and death, facades, and the emergence of the queer body through a contemporary Baroque lens that is simultaneously divine and decaying. Sonnenberg kiln-fires layers of porcelain with everyday objects and memorials: flowers, chandeliers, woven baskets, tombstones, and totems, and this exhibit also includes two personal self-portraits; one embroidered, and one photographed.
Sonnenberg’s work is imbued with his trademark take on beauty and romance, but questions of mortality lurk beneath the surface of each piece. In Times Like These is a personal tribute to the duality of life and death, beauty and decay, time and timelessness. The sculptural narrative of the exhibit explores the material, temporal, and, finally, ultimately, a revealing of the self, the body, the flesh to which all monuments are made. The result is a vital interrogation of death, divinity, and the exuberance of life created in the dark shadow of time — and times like these.”
Opening: December 7, 2019 | 6–8 pm
1626 C Hi Line
Dallas, 75207 TX
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