Suppedaneum

Ivana Basic
Becky Howland
Ross Iannatti
Jeffrey Joyal
Stuart Middleton
James Michael Shaeffer, Jr.
Edward Marshall Shenk

Curated by James Michael Shaeffer, Jr.
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June 28-29

Something like a poster of Gilles de Rais wearing a Smashing Pumpkins t-shirt in some teenagers bedroom in the Midwest. It’s 2004 and the computer in the room has Rotten.Com bookmarked and someone’s downloading Faces of Death on KaZaA. If Comte de Lautréamont had a driver’s permit and was about to get his braces off he’d be sitting there wishing his hair were longer. He likes the idea of cutting and tells his parents that American Psycho is his favorite movie.

(Or even worse)… you pass by a roadside memorial that’s now been forgotten, you go see “Hellraiser” and get a large popcorn, you think about how 287 people died in South Korea when their ship sank in April, and then you fall asleep reading Huysman’s La Bás.

(But then maybe)... it’s more like that girl who got drunk on New Years Eve in the catacombs by Odessa, only to get lost and wander the tombs for days until she finally died. You try and think about her last days alone in that dark labyrinth crying for help until her voice went hoarse. You remember that image of her body after it was found 2 years later and how it was reduced to a pile of dust. You think how strange it is to refer to a body as “it”.

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instalation view

Jeffrey Joyal

Untitled, 2014

pigeon, shoelace, chickenwire, cardboard

James Michael Shaeffer, Jr.

Untitled, 2014

fish cooler from fish market below Grand Century, shellac

Ivana Basic

World is all of one skin, 2014

print on silk, silicone, suspension hooks, steel cords

Becky Howland

left to right

Furcht Feuer (Fear Fire), 1985

in pencil on back: Lung Cancer Nightmare (Köln) at, Peter Moennig's

Lung Cancer Nightmare, 1986

unglazed ceramic, in 2 parts

Becky Howland

Lung Cancer Nightmare, 1986

unglazed ceramic, in 2 parts

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Becky Howland

left to right

Lung Cancer Ashtray, #27, 1984

glazed ceramic, edition of 100

Holly Solomon in 1994, 1994 and 2014

polaroid photo mounted on typewriter paper with hand-writing

Edward Marshall Shenk

Dahmer, 2014

print on canvas

instalation view

Edward Marshall Shenk

death-1470, 2014

frame, graphite on paper

Edward Marshall Shenk

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Ross Iannatti

Hysterisis, 2014

airbags on canvas

instalation view

Ivana Basic

Disintegration in the direction of something other then death, 2014

wax, wood, steel

Stuart Middleton

Bucolic Death Drive, 2014

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Stuart Middleton

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