May 7 - June 25, 2022
From Co-Lab Projects:
“Doom and Bloom is an exhibition of drawings, prints, sculpture, and new media by Alex Boeschenstein, Anthony Rundblade, and Emma Rossoff. As our world teeters on the precipice of runaway global warming and intensifying extreme weather, with uncontrollable pandemic mutations, and endless Satanic Panic revivals curdling inside late-capitalist cycles of crisis and collapse, these three artists, seek to answer the question: can this experience be engaged and examined productively? Swimming in the bog water monotony of this in-real-life apocalyptic stream, their vision of current events is not one of total destruction but instead a destruction of the totalizing structures of late capitalism; a brushing aside, in starts and stops, of the outmoded that refuses to die.
Each artist develops his or her own reflections through the process of making artwork. Emma Rossoff focuses on the destabilizing of the home environment. She builds sculptures, inspired by forms of household interiors (furniture, textiles, and domestic appliances), which she takes apart and reforms, pushing them to the edge of collapse. Anthony Rundblade frames his work within the Grotesque, offering absurdity, ridicule, and profanity as productive elements in their contributions to inversions of power. Alex Boeschenstein is fixated on history, how it haunts the present and how it failed the future. Working across a broad range of media, he uses the conventions of horror, assemblage, parapolitical research, geoscience, and information visualizations as tools for pointing to the unthinkable and the spectacular.
Doom and Bloom is a playful attempt to drill a keyhole view with inadequate machinery into the fortress wall of today to get a peepshow of a possible tomorrow.”
Reception: May 7, 2022 | 7–11 pm
Co-Lab Projects at Springdale General
1023 Springdale Rd, Building 1
Austin, 78721 TX
(512) 300-8217
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