
Steven Claydon: Total Social Objects
David Kordansky Gallery
April 27 through June 22, 2013

David Kordansky Gallery
April 27 through June 22, 2013
Last Chance - May 4 through June 1, 2013
Rewind to the sugar highs of childhood Saturday mornings and "toon" in on May 4th to this year's "Gag Me with a Toon 5" presented by WWA Gallery and curated by artists Steven Daily and Tomi Monstre. This much-loved annual exhibit has artists re-imagining the cartoons of their youth and what results are some totally tubular recreations of iconic characters spanning the 1960s-1990s!
April 27 through June 22, 2013
Total Social Objects focuses on the migration of cultural forms, taking into account both physical movement and the transit of objects through hierarchies of ideas, values, and symbols. Throughout, signifiers borrowed from maritime and shipping contexts have been passed through a visual sieve woven from numerous art historical tropes.
May 18 through June 29, 2013
May 4 through July 6, 2013
Features paintings by artists Dirk De Bruycker and Harry Moody.
May 4 through July 6, 2013

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