Photo Flash: art MRKT Hamptons' EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

By: Jul. 16, 2013
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Every Which Way But Loose was presented at artMRKT Hamptons this weekend, with work by artists Trong Gia Nguyen, Nyugen Smith and Coby Kennedy. You can contact the gallery to inquire about available works. Check out photos of the event below!

Coby Kennedy's Supply And Demand vending machines are a satirical play on modern consumerism. One (red) peddles popular cliches such as Newports, boxcutters and Phillies blunts illustrating how even a bad-boy lifestyle can be marketed and sold. The other machine (green) takes on our country's red-button issue with gun control. Both machines are intended to be blatant and sensational, abrasively highlighting the often exploitative relationship between producer and consumer.

Trong Gia Nguyen's Guy Debord (guillotine) is a wooden shed/outhouse whose door has a hole cut out where the visitor may insert his head. Peeking inside reveals projected video clips of Andy Warhol's "screen tests." The countenances of Warhol's pals are spliced and re-embodied with disparate "bathroom tests" depicting individuals, from the shoulders down, sitting on the commode. Looking straight down, a tilted mirror inside a large basket reflects a more dire and morbid predicament. The basket, it seems, is there to catch the viewer's head as he finds himself placed under the blade of a guillotine.

Nyugen Smith's Bundle Houses are conglomerations of found objects that address survival, tragedy and crises. The make-shift shelter-sculptures evoke at once dystopian futures, present day refugees, and recent hurricane victims, seamlessly meshing these messages into impeccable and relevant sculpture. In this iteration, Smith will be a site-specific Bundle House "ConfeSHUNal." Inside of the Bundle House structure, Smith will act as The Redeemer. Visitors will be asked to check off a list if Seven Deadly Sins, with the option to have The Redeemer take lashes for their atonement. The checklist is then slipped to Smith inside the ConfeSHUNal, and exchanged for a mixed-media drawing that Smith will create based on the sins checked within 3 minutes. If the visitor chose for The Redeemer to atone for their sins, Smith will then lash himself the requested number of times, using a whip made of leather strips bundled together. An illuminated manuscript charting the results of each ConfeSHUNal is created for all sinners to see.

Photo Flash: art MRKT Hamptons' EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

Photo Flash: art MRKT Hamptons' EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

Photo Flash: art MRKT Hamptons' EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

Photo Flash: art MRKT Hamptons' EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

Photo Flash: art MRKT Hamptons' EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

Photo Flash: art MRKT Hamptons' EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE
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Photo Flash: art MRKT Hamptons' EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

Photo Flash: art MRKT Hamptons' EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

Photo Flash: art MRKT Hamptons' EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

Photo Flash: art MRKT Hamptons' EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

Photo Flash: art MRKT Hamptons' EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE


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