NYAB Event - "The Ballot Show" Exhibition

"The Ballot Show" Exhibition

The Front Room

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Historically political art has often been associated with repression. This exhibition, however, is motivated by the idea of making a choice, and what it that choice represents. Steven Gagnon's diptych, "Hope" and "Progress", parody the famous Shephard Fairy portrait of President Obama, and feature an unopened six-pack of the hipster beer, Pabst Blue Ribbon, as one component and the following serigraph image of the cans empty and smashed. Jason Clay Lewis's neon sign "Inner Peace $100, Blow Jobs $20" is about a more basic choice.

Many of the artists in this show have gone outside of their wheelhouse to create works specifically for this show. Ethan Crenson will be doing a performance at the opening in which he will tattoo people with their party affiliation on their knuckles a la "Night of the Hunter".

Veteran political artists Marshall Reese and Nora Ligorano's video of a cast ice "Melting Middle Class" might be chilling, and it might be true. Lori Korchek and Mike Blade have been traveling across the country with a replica of the Oval Office desk, asking Americans to take a seat as Commander in Chief and tell them "what good they would do for America.;" The will have the actual desk as part of performance/installation with the video in the gallery. Emily Roz's polaroid grids of actors portraying The President in Hollywood movies leave us with the impression that "Presidential" might just be a look.

During this time of overt partisanship "The Ballot Show" is not about looking at the candidates, it is about looking at the system that created them, and us.

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