Blake Rayne “Dogskulldogs”
Miguel Abreu Gallery (88 Eldridge St.)
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Miguel Abreu Gallery presents DOGSKULLDOGS, Blake Rayne’s sixth solo exhibition at the gallery. Sixteen years after the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia, Henry VIII had him executed. More’s vision of an ideal society, rendered in woodblock by Hans Holbein, has persisted in the imagination over centuries. The dreams of the West have lived and died on such an imprint. Today, these dreams are made the harmonized tokens of a bygone alternative future in the cloister of archives. With Holbein’s image seared into the skull, Blake Rayne exhumes the corpse of modernity at the moment of its eclipse. Seen darkly and askance, Rayne maneuvers between the metaphors of dusk and dawn, culling new tools from the decay of ideas and material production. What remains is what refuses to yield, a new prima materia that bears the mark of struggle and defeat while insisting on decline as a social form.
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from September 08, 2018 to October 21, 2018
Opening Reception on 2018-09-08 from 18:00 to 20:00