[ADULT] CONTEMPORARY

Curated by Problem Child Advisory

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 13, 2024, 6 - 9 pm

Showing: April 13th - May 18th, 2024

Featured Artists: Gabriel Rozzell, Hank Reavis, Raffi Andals and Alberto Cuadros, Libbi Ponce, Malek Lazri, Kristen Landsman, Kim Kyne Cohen, Aaron Elvis Jupin, Kyle Gallagher, Liza Jo Eilers, Caroline Douville, Wallace Dibble, Anaïs De Los Santos, Lucien Smith and Zoe Alameda.

In Adult Contemporary, Problem Child Advisory presents an infantry of cyborgs, alchemizing the excess of our hyper-saturated visual culture and dissolving the boundaries between our physical and digital realms to pursue sincere pleasure and connection. Ranging from a hydrochromic ink painting that reveals a vintage magazine nudie when wet to a supersized gingerbread cookie chimera that conjoins Adam, Eve, temptation, and sin, the works embrace the multiplicity of our virtual landscape and its disruptions – which collapse the distinction between physical and virtual – to challenge normative systems that seek to regulate and alienate us from every form of pleasure. While the excessiveness of our digital landscape can reflect its exploitation by hegemonic powers, it also paradoxically creates a space for a new shared visual culture, which ferments new potentialities that inextricably link us with one another, both on and offline. The excess acts as an enzyme for new forms of connection, subverting dominant ideologies and their regulatory impulses that attempt to commodify and police culture to reinforce their normative ideals, including our desires. The works collectively embody a playful, lighthearted spirit that speaks to our insatiable appetite for unrestricted laughter and ecstasy. The marriage of the virtual and the physical allows us to conjure new modalities that extend beyond the screen, reconfiguring how we connect in our material world, just as much as in our virtual world and everywhere in between. Adult Contemporary unapologetically invokes a blend of traditional and experimental processes and mediums as sites of exchange, often referencing viral imagery and popular culture as a way of cheekily embracing the amorphous, infinite webs of pleasure and Connection.

Kim Kyne Cohen, Original Fun, 2023, Slip & Glaze on Ceramic, 4ft

Kristen Landsman, Hulk Hogan, 2024, Acrylic and Gloss Medium on Canvas, 16 x 19.75 in.

Gabriel Rozzell, Matrimony, 2024, Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 48 in.

Anaïs De Los Santos, Girl, 2023, Ceramic, 7 x 4 x 19 in.

Anaïs De Los Santos, Bike?, 2023, Ceramic, 18 x 10 x 16 in.

Raffi Andals & Alberto Cuadros, Meags But Bro, 2024, Bottles, Memorabilia, Oil Pastel, Vinyl Stickers, Wine Glasses, Tumbler, Sharpie Stretcher Bars on Salvaged Shipping Crate, 73 x 8 x 24 in.

Aaron Elvis Jupin, “Haven’t Seen You Around In Awhile”, 2020, Acrylic on Canvas, 39 x 33 in.

Wallace Dibble, Actress, 2023, Oil on Mesh, 40 x 40 in.

Liza Jo Eilers, If You Weren’t Coming Back Here, This Won’t Exist, 2024, Acrylic, Pigment Transfer, Glitter and Hydrochromic Ink on Linen, 39 x 54 in.

Zoe Alameda, My Love, 2024, Xerox Prints, Tar Gel, Resin, Metal Hardware, Plastisol on Wood Panel, 15.25 x 8 in.

Libbi Ponce, A Theory on Love, 2024, Steel, Handblown Glass, Grout, Scrap Foam, Two-Part Expanding Polyurthane Hardware, 4 x 2 x3 Ft.

Hank Reavis, Abandoned Truck (Neah Bay), 2024, Acrylic on Canvas, 10 x 26 in.

Lucian Smith , Untitled (Jane & Goji @ 83 Canal), 2024, Airbrushed Acrylic on Canvas, 15.25 x 8 in.

Gabriel Rozzell, Love at First Sight, 2023, Acrylic on Panel, 6 x 6 in.

Kristen Landsman, Pink-Haired Vape Queen, 2024, Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 36.5 in.

Caroline Douville, Fancy Zombie, 2024, Acrylic on Canvas, 10 x 70 in.

Kyle Gallagher, Don’t Follow Me I’m Lost, 2024, Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x40 in.

Malek Larzi, Layup, 2024, Foam, Silicone, Tshirt, Popcorn, 68 x 40 x 24 in.

Caroline Douville, Negative Puff, 2024, Acrylic on Canvas, 13 x 13 in.

Zoe Alameda, Comfortable Mud, 2024, Acrylic, Xerox Prints, Found Trinkets on Canvas, 50 x 24 in.