“Laughing Out Loud” Exhibition
Trestle Gallery (at Brooklyn Art Space)
[Image: Nadine Beauharnois "The Shirt" (2015) acrylic and oil on panel and plaster, 10 x 23 x 4 in.]
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Co-Curated by Rhia Hurt & Katerina Lanfranco
Humor is culturally specific and nuanced. It’s hard to pin down - but like love, we know it when we feel it. While the fourteen artists in “Laughing Out Loud” make various kinds of art, they have been selected for this exhibition because of their shared investigation into how funny functions in narrative content and in technical execution. Humor in art can subvert meta-narratives and make us think, while also invoking an involuntary and cathartic laugh.
The artists in “Laughing Out Loud” use humor through conceptual, formal, and material incongruity in their work. This serves to invert and expose power dynamics through absurd pairings and combinations. The resulting artwork is subversive, weird, brave, and brilliant. Humor is disarming, and can pack a punch of social commentary and rebellion against conventions. Laughter enables viewers to gives themselves over to the art, even if just for a moment of psychological vulnerability and aesthetic experience.
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Schedule
from April 15, 2016 to June 03, 2016
Opening Reception on 2016-04-15 from 19:00 to 21:00