Explosive Art Show - 10/14-10/17

Stay Gold Gallery is pleased to announce theExplosivo! Art Show.

This reoccurring multimedia group exhibition, curated by
Tracy Candido, is composed of emerging and up & coming artists. The Explosivo! Art Showcombines: a traditional gallery
exhibition; an hour long film and video screening curated by Rooftop Films, a Brooklyn based non-profit production collective;
and a live music performance by Falcon; to create a multi-faceted, multi-layered visceral experience.

With this being the fourthExplosivo! Art Showevent, and the second time Brooklyn has hosted the show (Manhattan and
Boston both being contenders), artists from New York, Miami, and Philadelphia showcase their paintings, video, works on
paper, photography and installation. The artists being exhibited are: Jonathan Allen,
Fabian Berenbaum,
Dana Carlson,
Susan Carnahan,
Denise Despirito,
Rebecca Hackemann,
Allyson Lubow,
and Augustina Woodgate.


Dreamy abstractions may provoke multiple meanings and emotions. In some cases they remind us of childhood adventures,
like in Dana Carlson's works on paper, referencing Romanticism and a return to youth with her use of puffy paint, glitter,
and rainbows. Fabian Berenbaum manipulates stuffed animals and recreates them on canvas, creating open-ended scenar-
ios that tolerate multiple interpretations. Subconscious childlike escapades are pushed a bit further in Susan Carnahan's
video installation, where she digs up repressed fantastical narratives and breaks them down into fundamental expressions
and relationships.

Rebecca Hackemann prompts viewers to peek into white-boxed optical sculptures, thus the viewer becoming a participant
and a performer in her reality. Denise Despirito reacts and responds to an awakened actuality by drawing layers upon
layers of images of the visual stimulation she experiences daily. This conflict between bizarre reality and sugarcoated day-
dreams continues with Allyson Lubow's photo of two sisters peering out from their living room, Jonathan Allen's paintings of
pop and political iconography placed upon layers of abstraction, and also the depiction of the cycle of life, of growth, and
of death presented in Augustina Woodgate's drawings.

Explosivo! Art Show'srock n' roll segment will be performed by Falcon, a Brooklyn based band. Falcon's inspiration is
derived from a childhood classmate, who had previously written all of Falcon's songs on a Fisher Price®tape recorder in
1987, but then had tragically died at the age of fourteen. Falcon has since found those dusty cassettes and brought them
to life. Surprisingly contemporary while simultaneously alien, Falcon has taken the recordings of a deceased boy and trans-
formed them into fully realized, often epic arrangements.
The Explosivo! Art Show's mission is to push boundaries while connecting and overlapping art worlds. Explosivo! Art Show
is not a vanilla box or a dark, quiet screening room. Explosivo! is a little bit punk and a little bit high art; it has the energy of
youth and the quiet contemplation of what has come before it. Explosivo! Art Showis the fabulous dance party/paint by
numbers/classy get together we've been hoping for!