Mark Andreas: Reactive Sculpture Series

After exhibiting up and down the eastern seaboard, Brooklyn-based sculptor Mark Andreas has crossed the East River to make his Manhattan debut. Andreas' Reactive Sculpture Series includes the hulking 400-pound Seed Spreader (pictured), an intimidating machine equipped with three-foot spinning blades. It brilliantly expresses the fear associated with the industrialization of mass food production that, in the words of the artist, “conceptually speaks to the …

Brian Ulrich

Growing up in the suburban land of big-box retail (which increasingly seems to infiltrate our cities too), I was no stranger to the wanton excess that lined the shelves of stores like Meijer, Target, Costco and Walmart. As the mediocrity of these spaces and the mind-numbing effects of consumerism come to define our American landscape, it seems important for artists to encourage active debate on …

Gary Panter: Pictures from the Psychedelic Swamp: 1972 – 2001

Fans of Pee Wee’s Playhouse, RAW and SLASH magazines and the comic character Jimbo know and love the work of Pictures from the Psychedelic Swamp: 1972 – 2001 Opening reception: 4 April 2008, 6-8pm 4 April-10 May 2008Clementine Gallery 623 West 27th Street New York, NY 10001 map tel. 1 212 243 5937 Daydream Trap Through 31 August 2008Aldrich Museum 258 Main Street Ridgefield, CT …