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Harkawik is pleased to present Spirit, our second solo exhibition with Philadelphia-based painter Exene Karros. Spirit charts a course between faith and bankruptcy, offering us momentary glimpses of a world outside her gray expanse, even as she ratchets up the complexity and madcap brilliance that defines it. Here, balloons float a coffin toward the heavens–and it might make it, were it not for Jesus Christ himself, casually gripping a giant pushpin. Here, bulging, showy airplanes are body shamed, Calvin and Hobbes and Calvinist doctrine mingle freely, airline logos teach us color theory, the FBI wiretaps the clergy, marriage is proposed and sucked away in one swift maneuver of aerial advertising, and the excesses and absurdities of modern life are given free reign in a kind of branded animism. Karros creates mimetic systems of omnipresent yet isolated realities, scattering icons across the picture plane like a divine editor. Her players’ motivations and...More
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Harkawik is pleased to present Spirit, our second solo exhibition with Philadelphia-based painter Exene Karros. Spirit charts a course between faith and bankruptcy, offering us momentary glimpses of a world outside her gray expanse, even as she ratchets up the complexity and madcap brilliance that defines it. Here, balloons float a coffin toward the heavens–and it might make it, were it not for Jesus Christ himself, casually gripping a giant pushpin. Here, bulging, showy airplanes are body shamed, Calvin and Hobbes and Calvinist doctrine mingle freely, airline logos teach us color theory, the FBI wiretaps the clergy, marriage is proposed and sucked away in one swift maneuver of aerial advertising, and the excesses and absurdities of modern life are given free reign in a kind of branded animism. Karros creates mimetic systems of omnipresent yet isolated realities, scattering icons across the picture plane like a divine editor. Her players’ motivations and...More
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