Cognitive Dissonance or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Stop Worrying and Stop Worrying and Stop Worrying
Tops Gallery•Oct 11, 2025 — Nov 15, 2025
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Tops Gallery is pleased to announce Cognitive Dissonance or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Stop Worrying and Stop Worrying and Stop Worrying, a solo exhibition of six new paintings by Michele Abramowitz. This is Tops’s first show with Abramowitz, and it will take place at the Front Street gallery.
The title of Abramowitz’s show is taken from Kubrick’s 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a dark comedy that satirizes the nuclear bomb anxieties of the Cold War and the absurdity and paradox inherent in the concept of "mutually assured destruction." Abramowitz’s new, abstract oil paintings are, for her, a response to the current political turmoil with similar emotional bifurcation. By employing a variety of painters’ spatial conventions and uneasy figure-ground relationships, they reflect the cognitive load of living in multiple simultaneous and conflicting realities,...More
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Cognitive Dissonance or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Stop Worrying and Stop Worrying and Stop Worrying
Tops Gallery•Oct 11, 2025 — Nov 15, 2025
Press Release
Tops Gallery is pleased to announce Cognitive Dissonance or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Stop Worrying and Stop Worrying and Stop Worrying, a solo exhibition of six new paintings by Michele Abramowitz. This is Tops’s first show with Abramowitz, and it will take place at the Front Street gallery.
The title of Abramowitz’s show is taken from Kubrick’s 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a dark comedy that satirizes the nuclear bomb anxieties of the Cold War and the absurdity and paradox inherent in the concept of "mutually assured destruction." Abramowitz’s new, abstract oil paintings are, for her, a response to the current political turmoil with similar emotional bifurcation. By employing a variety of painters’ spatial conventions and uneasy figure-ground relationships, they reflect the cognitive load of living in multiple simultaneous and conflicting realities,...More
