Randy Polumbo "Love Stream"
Steven Kasher Gallery
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Randy Polumbo presents Love Stream, his most ambitious and monumental work to date in the form of a vintage Airstream aluminum trailer transformed into a stimulating experiential wonderland that is both part amusement park attraction and part Freudian intervention. Also presented are a series of handblown crystal Udderformations and techno-organic Wallflowers of glass and aluminum that are illuminated with LEDs to create a bioluminescent frenzy on the gallery walls.
Polumbo combines glass and innovative lighting to create environments that speak to our world of pleasure and sensuality. He invites viewers to immerse themselves in an exotic and lurid Garden of Eden blooming with voluptuous handblown glass flora sprouting from every surface.
Love Stream is the more resolved and vulnerable sister of Polumbo’s The Garden and Grotto of Manifest Destiny(2008), a solar powered, mobile, military command post overrun with blossoms comprised of hundreds of commercial sex toys illuminated with thousands of LEDs.
Polumbo riffs on symmetries and interconnecting webs, linking libidinal structures, galactic exploration, constellations, pollination, pistols, stamens, and biological processes throughout the animal and plant kingdoms. In equal parts Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Freud, Polumbo infuses troubling topics with alchemical salvation rendering the truth and beauty at the heart of dark matters, colonizing the unconscious with colorful seeds.
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from September 13, 2012 to September 29, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-09-13 from 18:00 to 20:00