Maro Michalakakos "Parallel Universe"
511 Gallery
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511 Gallery presents Parallel Universe, a solo exhibition of new work by Maro Michalakakos, a Greek artist who mines fairy tales, dreams, and parables to make objects of sexual and political enigma. In this series of eleven watercolor paintings, the artist appropriates John James Audubon's renowned paintings of birds, but dips them into surreal waters. In this alternate reality of parallel universes, a flamingo becomes prey to a shrimp entwined around its neck in a suffocating embrace, and a bald eagle can swim alongside a catfish in an otherwise empty sea of white paper. Predator and prey, otherwise hostile foes, become coupled in fantasy.
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Schedule
from May 13, 2010 to June 12, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-05-13 from 18:00 to 20:00