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Deflated Form, 2018-19, 10 x 11 x 2 inches, canvas, gesso, ink, acrylic, thread, grommets #wallsculpture #softsculpture #softpainting #paintedconstructions #paintingsculpturehybrid

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Limp Form VIII, 2018-19, 9 x 11 x 2 inches, canvas, gesso, ink, acrylic, thread, grommets #wallsculpture #softsculpture #softpainting #paintedconstructions #paintingsculpturehybrid

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Limp Horizon, 2018-19, 2.5 x 11 x 2 inches, canvas, gesso, ink, acrylic, thread, grommets #wallsculpture #softsculpture #softpainting #paintedconstructions #paintingsculpturehybrid

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Beautiful solo show ‘Effulgence’ @elisabethcondon @emersondorsch

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Posted @withrepost • @kalboreo Please come out this Friday 10/11 for the opening reception and curator talk for Anthropocene Blues, a group exhibition that addresses the age of the human impact on the planet earth .
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#anthropocene #climatecrisis #brooklynartist #bushwick #groupexhibition #body #humanoid #bodyhorror #natureisweird #plants #groupshow #evolution #adaptation #scifi #mutation #curatortalk #brooklynarts #worksonpaper #drawing #buyingartiscool

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Anthropocene Blues, Wayfarers Annual Juried Show opens today @wayfarersbk
Curated by @janeursulaharris, art historian and critic for #artinamerica #artforum #theparisreview and faculty at SVA.///////////September 29 through October 20///////////
Opening Reception: Friday, October 11, 7-10pm, Curator Q&A 7:30pm

Curators statement: 'While a quick search on Google reveals several sources for the origins of the phrase Anthropocene Blues, this exhibition takes its name and inspiration from an eponymous Anne Waldman poem of 2012. With an almost quaint ring to it, the term's reference to our growing social anxiety over the impending death of nature is nonetheless gravely real. Waldman, one of the last great living Beat poets, reminds us of that in her poem, its opening stanza reading like an elegy:
sound de-territorializes
weather
and my love clings to you
sings to you
in the "new weathers"
within a tragedy
of the Anthropocene
In organizing the Wayfarers exhibition around this elegiac theme, I hope to also sound a clarion call, echoing Waldman's impetus for her poem, which she describes as "alarm at the continuing prevalence of climate change ignorance and the thrust of recent political events."
The following descriptions offer a way to consider the exhibition's individual works in this context.

The soft sculpture Limp Pricks, 2018, by Cynthia Mason, explores the systemic failures of a late capitalist society and our paradoxical dependence on them. The fake-tan, ink-sprayed teats or penises (depending on how you view them) made of canvas, conjure a bloated and pudgy form, victim to its own weight. "The term prick references both man and nature," she says, "KKK hoods and white male masculinity. Exhausted from both fear of failure and the task of domination; its toxic self-preservation focuses only on itself and alienates everything else." Pricks also reference thorns and splinters from plant life and our environment failing from human-created climate change.’ #wallsculpture #softsculpture #softpainting #paintedconstructions #paintingsculpturehybrid

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Geometric color studies (landscape memories) 16x12 inches, oil and graphite on paper

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Color grid studies for new work, 16x12 inches, oil and graphite on archival paper #oilpainting #color #grid #tangled #obstacle #itscomplicated #facade

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Work in progress ‘Limp Prick Grid with black eye’, 2019 shredded documents, ink, fabric dye, paper clay, velvet, thread, canvas, 17x23x4 inches, #wip #wallsculpture #softsculpture #softpainting #paintedconstructions #paintingsculpturehybrid #chewinggum

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Work in progress, Draped Structure XII, 2019, shredded documents, graphite, soft pastel, ink, sterling silver chain, paper clay, thread on linen 14 x 18 x 1 inches #wallsculpture #softsculpture #softpainting #paintedconstructions #paintingsculpturehybrid #chewinggum #wip

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Limp Pricks and Plants in Rising Water I, 2019, shredded documents, graphite, soft pastel, ink, fabric dye, sterling silver chain, flocking powder, paper clay, thread on linen 19 x 14 x 5 inches #wallsculpture #softsculpture #softpainting #paintedconstructions #paintingsculpturehybrid #chewinggum

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New work in progress, Limp Form #wallsculpture #softsculpture #softpainting #paintedconstructions #paintingsculpturehybrid #wip

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So honored to be awarded a 3 month residency grant at The Helen Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. Heroine Agnes Martin is a past resident 🔥 so grateful to begin 2020 on such a positive note ❤️ #helenwurlitzer #agnesmartin

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Staying at Art Ovation this weekend and fell in ❤️💜❤️with these Claudia Ryan pieces @cryanshadow

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New work in progress #wallsculpture #softsculpture #softpainting #paintedconstructions #paintingsculpturehybrid #wip #chewinggum

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Sketch for a new low relief painting #wallsculpture #softsculpture #softpainting #paintedconstructions #paintingsculpturehybrid #softsculpturepainting

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So honored to be a part of this online auction to raise funds for Planned Parenthood. Please bid on my donated piece for @artforreproductiverights for @yellowfund starting bid $50 #prochoice

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Limp Pricks and Plants Shelf in Rising Waters, 2019, shredded documents, canvas, acrylic, pastel, thread 21 x 11 x 3 inches. ///////////////// A donation for the show RULERS @cocohunday opens Saturday, June 1st at Coco Hunday in Tampa, FL through Saturday, June 8th, 2019. Organized by Sue Havens and Jason Lazarus. ///////////////// All proceeds will be donated to Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. #wallsculpture #softsculpture #softpainting #paintedconstructions #paintingsculpturehybrid #softsculpturepainting

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Works in progress

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So excited and grateful to receive a professional artist grant from Creative Pinellas. Thank you @creativepinellas

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