Magicians less prone to mental disorders than other artists, finds research
Curated by Quintessa Matranga
Justin Caguiat & Rafael Delacruz, Merlin James, Rosalind Nashashibi

July 18 – August 23, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 18, 6-8pm

Creative types – musicians, painters, writers – are often regarded as a tormented and difficult bunch but a study has revealed that at least one subsection of the artistic community may have grasped the trick of staying well balanced.
– Steven Morris, The Guardian

The artists: Justin Caguiat, Rafael Delacruz, Merlin James and Rosalind Nashashibi span diverse working methods to ask what constitutes relevancy, seriousness, or beauty in painting. The works in this exhibition engage personal, art-historical, and mythological subjects as a foundation from which to probe the depths of aesthetic risk. Occupying the threshold between indecent subject and decent painting, or decent subject, indecent painting, these works embody a potency and strength, beyond the boundaries of what an image itself can contain. Read the full release here.