Game Over
Soloway Gallery is pleased to present Game Over, a group exhibition featuring paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, and video installations by Brian Ferreira, Yalda Foroughmand Arabi, Scott Lerner, Nitin Mukul, Opal Ong, and Nicole Schonitzer. Game Over is the first curatorial project of artist Michael Dispensa and will run from May 12 through June 16th with an opening at 5-8 pm on Sunday, May 12th.
In video games, a black screen with the words Game Over, You Died, Critical Failure, almost never means a unilateral dive into oblivion; It is an end, but with a promise of second chances, forced rest, and rebirth. Game over can be an external system experiencing many deaths of what was once normal, an internal struggle oscillating between unmanaged hostility and fragile truce, a conscious choice to ditch a known path for an intrepid unknown dimension, or maybe it really is a final dive into true oblivion; what gamers call permadeath.
Leading up to the show, all artists were prompted to flirt with their own definition of Game Over, making entirely new work in ways they never have before or recontextualizing current/past work to seek a fresh perspective. The experimental nature of each artist's practice captures the Game Over spirit, come to see the product of their generative deaths, respawns, and resets.
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Soloway Gallery is pleased to present Game Over, a group exhibition featuring paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, and video installations by Brian Ferreira, Yalda Foroughmand Arabi, Scott Lerner, Nitin Mukul, Opal Ong, and Nicole Schonitzer. Game Over is the first curatorial project of artist Michael Dispensa and will run from May 12 through June 16th with an opening at 5-8 pm on Sunday, May 12th.
In video games, a black screen with the words Game Over, You Died, Critical Failure, almost never means a unilateral dive into oblivion; It is an end, but with a promise of second chances, forced rest, and rebirth. Game over can be an external system experiencing many deaths of what was once normal, an internal struggle oscillating between unmanaged hostility and fragile truce, a conscious choice to ditch a known path for an intrepid unknown dimension, or maybe it really is a final dive into true oblivion; what gamers call permadeath.
Leading up to the show, all artists were prompted to flirt with their own definition of Game Over, making entirely new work in ways they never have before or recontextualizing current/past work to seek a fresh perspective. The experimental nature of each artist's practice captures the Game Over spirit, come to see the product of their generative deaths, respawns, and resets.
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