May 8 - 29, 2022
From The Orange Show:
“Re: Tempt Contempt is the newest variant of an exhibition model developed through the exhibition Temporary/Contemporary from 2004.
In 2004, I was interested in art in uncustomary spaces, developing new contexts, and exploring the expanded field. I was curious how artworks responded to heterogenous situations in which they were displayed. I organized and curated an exhibition of exceptional artworks embedded within and responding to the Orange Show monument. Temporary/Contemporary of 2004 was an extraordinary art exhibition in which many contemporary artists engaged with the Orange Show through temporary artworks embedded within the folk art environment.
The Curator of Programming at the Orange Show, Pete Gershon, invited me back to curate a new exhibition for 2022. For this new iteration Re: Tempt Contempt in 2022, I have chosen extraordinary artists that emit vibrancy and intensity, the variety of art you won’t find anywhere else. These six outstanding artists will respond to the Orange Show monument through temporary site-specific artworks. There is no other place to find such an experience.
Ciriza is a multidisciplinary artist who explores transformative form in relation to transmuting and composting experiences of pain, molting processes, body as vessel of multiplicity and impermanence. Ciriza’s works are explorations of states of fluidity and transmutation; the slippery, elusive, and anomalistic spaces materializing in tactile and visceral forms. The result is otherworldly, a connection to the infinite where phantasmagoria becomes tangible, familiar, and feral. Rooted in the medicinal, Ciriza’s sculptural works illuminate the possibilities of healing and metamorphoses within the opacity of shadow and murk.
Jon Read’s work is a day-glo dystopia full of bootleg animatronic hybrids, cryptids, and mutant ghouls, masquerading infantilism which obscures imminent catastrophe. Reverie and discord are both addictive pleasures, vividly hued disaster is always around the corner. Abandon all rational senses, savor the shambles.
D O M O K O S / S T A R C H I L D E 7 develops audio / visual / sculptural works concentrating on white light and anti-war energy / future armageddon realities + the F A N T A S Y 1 international underground network.
Jean Daye is an artist and reformed influencer. Originally from Houston, they now operate worldwide. Led by the twin stars of “The Far Side” and the Zucker brothers, they long worked in the media of post-content content. They have DJ’d and VJ’d museum openings, art spaces, music and performing arts festivals, and private events. Since the outbreak of global plague they have relapsed into a practice of making physical, visual art. For this exhibition, they are preparing a series of site-specific installations about reactionaries, refugees, animal cosmonauts, and other space pilgrims. These works will combine paintings, screenprints, survival kits, relics from Potemkin launch sites, and other cosmic jetsam. -Danny Kerschen-”
Ciriza
Reception: May 8, 2022 | 3–6 pm
The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art
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