“Beasticon -Pungent Works by Ungroomed Creatures-” Exhibition

Mark Miller Gallery

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An Exhibition Curated by Antony Zito & Lori Nelson

Gleaned from the ceremonial caves of Purgatory, New York City, and Hell Holes beyond, Beasticon is a distinctly pungent selection of works by magnificently ungroomed creatures. Curated by Antony Zito and Lori Nelson of 4heads and the annual Governors Island Art Fair, Beasticon celebrates the unlovely and unspoken during the glittering and somewhat forced festivities of the Holiday Season.

Nelson and Zito asked a selection of particularly feral artists: Show us your beast! And nursing the subsequent bruises and black eyes, they emerged from the wreckage with a booty of the beastliest works imaginable that delve into the growling, teeth-grinding, foaming, sputtering, salivating, anar-chaotic, and sickeningly colorful aspects of being human. The result, Beasticon, is a salon-style exhibition of holiday fare that won’t ever be found in the hallowed halls of K & Wal-marts, but rather at home on the Lower East Side at Mark Miller’s street-level gallery.

Three days after the opening reception, on the afternoon of Sunday December 15th, the public will be invited to Beasticon-struct where they can interact with the artists as they creak back the rusty gates of their creative cave and transform the gallery into an active shared studio space. The creatures will be spawning artistic mutations from scratch, spawning live portrait paintings, constructing beastly gifts to order, and manifesting many more monstrous mutations.

Featuring artwork by: Dong Hee Lee, Monica Rose Song, George Kroenert, Joanna Moulder, Tine Kindermann, Jill Marleah Bell, Joe Heaps Nelson, Christina Pitsch, Thomas Nousias, Roman Primitivo Albear, Orlando Lobelo, Hiroshi Shafer, Lori Nelson, Antony Zito, Merkley, Shelley Turley, George Ferrandi
& performance art by Matthew Silver, recently awarded a grant by Franklin Furnace to create his upcoming project, The Love Portal.

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Schedule

from December 12, 2013 to January 26, 2014
Afterbrunch Open Studio Beasticon-struct Day: December 15/ 2-8pm

Opening Reception on 2013-12-12 from 18:00 to 21:00

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