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Stephen Irwin and Phoenix Lindsey-Hall: Exit Wounds
Marisa Newman Projects in collaboration with New Discretions is pleased to present Exit Wounds a two-person exhibition with artists Stephen Irwin and Phoenix Lindsey-Hall.
Irwin鈥檚 series of either erased or marked over found images is haunting and beautiful. Using steel-wool, astringents, bleach, whiteout - Irwin rubs and abrades or marks over pictures from vintage pornography magazines. The reconfigured image leaves parts of the body intact encircling the hand, chest, face, genitalia in a manner that is like a shrine or a peep-hole or seeing the body-part through the viewfinder of a rifle. The results are Renaissance-like frescoes with a feeling of loss and wonderment.
Lindsey-Hall鈥檚 new series 鈥淪cream Inside Your Heart鈥� is a ceramic series made in response to the recent and tragic death of those that have been lost to police violence and brutality. This work leverages the intersection of art and activism in response to the Black Lives Matter and Black Trans Lives Matter, and Queer Rights鈥� movements. This new body of work builds on Lindsey-Hall鈥檚 past projects centering on violence and hate crimes in queer communities and also addresses the larger issue of gun violence in the United States affecting so many of us.
In this series, Lindsey-Hall literally shoots wet clay with bullets to capture the negative space of the explosion that is made. The organic forms that are created with the "clay body" are a metaphor to the "human body" in an act of violence. The results are abstracted forms, which are finished with gun-metal metallic grey glaze.
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Marisa Newman Projects in collaboration with New Discretions is pleased to present Exit Wounds a two-person exhibition with artists Stephen Irwin and Phoenix Lindsey-Hall.
Irwin鈥檚 series of either erased or marked over found images is haunting and beautiful. Using steel-wool, astringents, bleach, whiteout - Irwin rubs and abrades or marks over pictures from vintage pornography magazines. The reconfigured image leaves parts of the body intact encircling the hand, chest, face, genitalia in a manner that is like a shrine or a peep-hole or seeing the body-part through the viewfinder of a rifle. The results are Renaissance-like frescoes with a feeling of loss and wonderment.
Lindsey-Hall鈥檚 new series 鈥淪cream Inside Your Heart鈥� is a ceramic series made in response to the recent and tragic death of those that have been lost to police violence and brutality. This work leverages the intersection of art and activism in response to the Black Lives Matter and Black Trans Lives Matter, and Queer Rights鈥� movements. This new body of work builds on Lindsey-Hall鈥檚 past projects centering on violence and hate crimes in queer communities and also addresses the larger issue of gun violence in the United States affecting so many of us.
In this series, Lindsey-Hall literally shoots wet clay with bullets to capture the negative space of the explosion that is made. The organic forms that are created with the "clay body" are a metaphor to the "human body" in an act of violence. The results are abstracted forms, which are finished with gun-metal metallic grey glaze.
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