Stephen J Shanabrook "Liquid Lushes and Late Nite House of Pills"
Daneyal Mahmood Gallery
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Looking at Stephen j Shanabrook's work is like watching the horse jumping over an obstacle and instead of landing on the other side it starts to float and you are lost. Like a man on a wire, Shanabrook restlessly walks the disturbing line between heaviness and zero gravity, between painful and sweet, death and beauty; melting them together - metaphorically and literally - into one frozen state, one fossil. In 'Hopping Hills, the Pharmaceutical Landscape', the artist melts plastic prescription pill bottles and presses them into the form of Easter bunnies. An installation of running and hopping rabbits made out of hundreds of empty pill vessels suggests that prescription drugs have become the new religion, with addiction to drugs the new American side effect - the result of lost hopes and multiplying disconnections between people and reality.
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from September 17, 2009 to October 17, 2009