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Kristine Robinson
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Feb 14 -March 17
(extended due to popular demand )
Opening: Friday Febuary 14th
from 8-10pm
*followed by
CUPIDS BALL
@ Union
Pool
(Union and Meeker)
335 Grand Street
Brooklyn NY 11211
Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, 12-6pm
and by appointment
Map & Directions
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BELLWETHER is proud to present KRISTINE ROBINSON
Pork Bomb Washing Machine
Kristine Robinson's first solo show, Pork Bomb Washing Machine
creates a mixture of objects fraught with symbolic qualities
and emotions as a popular culture vocabulary. Exploring everything
from the mundane to the pathetic in our personal and physical
relationships, middle-American consumer items representing "super-sized"
dreams and disappointments collide with each other. Elements
are cast and molded in rubber, silicone, resins, and paper mache
as individual components, and reassembled into life-size, jigsaw-like
assemblies that impose a myriad of qualities on unlike elements.
Unorthodox couplings, double helixes and paired animals become
doppelgängers of physical and conceptual relationships
in the pieces. A set of pandas-the original "hothouse flower"
of the animal world-are irresistible yet impossible to manage
in "Becoming Butterfly". Cheap boom boxes and stereos
appear in a number of the works as some kind of everyday-object
reality check. Like cooking with grease drippings, "Luau
on Fatback Island" suggests a "make-do-with-what-you-got"
mentality that is clearly absurd. In this work, the beautiful
and the crude become one: misplaced "Frankensteins"
seamed together with new contortions of their original and sometimes
mutually exclusive meanings, alluding to the obvious but unspoken.
BELLWETHER is an artist-run space in support of emerging artists.
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