Exhibition in Chinatown, NY

You're all welcome to attend a group exhibition in which I am showing work, opening reception this Saturday night:

Mike Rollins Fine Art presents:

Dystopian Delight 

OPENING RECEPTION

Saturday June 16th

6-9 PM

105 Bowery, Third Floor

New York, NY 10002

Featuring paintings by:

John Bent

Tiffany Calvert

Mark Epstein

Ronna Lebo

Meridith Passabet

DYSTOPIAN DELIGHT

HERE!....painting is presented as a human gesture of celebration crashing head-on, purposely, with natural disasters, world crisis and dismal market catastrophe.

HERE!....lies the disparity between representational and abstract space; the natural world forced into a hand-made violation of the two-dimensional picture plane.

HERE!...,mutilation is present as perfection; authentic misery under the guise of happiness.

HERE!...we feel a compassion for the horrible, a pathos for the comedy of worldly knowledge, a self-conscious attachment to detachment.

HERE!....painting acts-out a visual recognition of something unknown, painting behaves as an immoral revelation of heraldic emptiness.

HERE!...the eternal moment is skewed into pictorial space where Beauty and Ugly fight for the surface before drowning.

Here is a group of paintings that ultimately say only what needs to be said about themselves as paintings.