White Columns Online<\/u><\/em>\u00a0‘Stomach Acid Reflux’ curated by Ellie Rines<\/p>\n

Stomach Acid Reflux<\/em>, an online inventory that deals with the human body in a way that is somehow both grotesque and formally elegant.<\/p>\n

Traditional themes\u2013still life, formal abstraction\u2013and traditional composition\u2013symmetry, etc\u2026\u2013 i.e. artistic practice of control is confounded by dysfunction and absurdity. Fake vomit on a scale, ketchup packets\u2019 portrait, tits with nips carved out, tissuebox architecture, spray foam can ejaculation, dairy still life\u2013 all direct or subliminal hints to the disgusting bodily fluids resulting from the things we love and hate \u2013 sex, bodies, food. Everyday encounters, formalities, objects and commodities become subject to ridicule and admiration, sublimation and disgrace. Juxtapositions ferment and become putrid.<\/p>\n

Sophia S Narett<\/strong>\u00a0painstakingly needlepoints elaborate scenes from fantasy and illusion. In\u00a0Something Went Wrong,\u00a0<\/em>orgies are juxtaposed to a series of women aimlessly wandering in ball gowns, a dead naked women lying on a fish tank. The composition is structured around crumbling architecture, barbed wire and a flank of female figures observing in confusion, disgust and ridicule.<\/p>\n

Kurt Treeby<\/strong>\u00a0knits an architectural model of Prentice Women’s Hospital then turns it into what feels like a beer coozy for a tissue box.<\/p>\n

Linda King Ferguson<\/a>\u2019<\/strong>s surgical cuts yield formal absences. Though reminiscent of Lygia Clark or Polly Apfelbaum, the painting counteracts the joy of the colors with a sloughing off.<\/p>\n

Diana Kingsley\u00a0<\/strong>\u2019s dairy still life in a pink background. Entitling the work\u00a0Well-rounded Wives<\/em>\u00a0evokes the low-level despair and boredom beneath the surface of a kitchen. Lactose overload.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Sullivan\u00a0<\/strong>features faux glitter vomit on a painted weight scale. Theatrical, humorous and a bit sinister.\u00a0\u00a0From a \u201crevenge body\u201d series \u2014 the tableau lives up to the title.<\/p>\n

Amy J Kligman<\/strong>\u00a0ketchup packet still life. Curiously bulbous. Employing immense detail similar to the way Narrett does but much more laconic.<\/p>\n

Robert Rhee<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0Coral\u00a0<\/em>uses a spray foam can to create a bizarre yellow foam shape. Rhee discusses \u201crubber necking\u201d in his artist statement. This could have been another title for my online selection of works \u2014 looking at something gross and candid out of habit and curiosity.<\/p>\n

Participating artists include:
\nLinda King Ferguson
\nDiana Kingsley
\nAmy J Kligman
\nSophia S Narrett
\nRobert Rhee
\nJennifer Sullivan
\nKurt Treeby<\/p>\n

Ellie\u00a0Rines is founder of 56 Henry gallery and a director of Ceysson & B\u00e9n\u00e9ti\u00e8re.<\/p>\n

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featured image:\u00a0Linda King Ferguson
\nEquivalence 60<\/em>, 2016
\nAcrylic and stain
\n28 x 28 inches
\nCourtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

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