Carter
John White Cerasulo
Santiago Cucullu
Andrew Guenther
Adam Helms
Jay Heikes
Matthew Day Jackson
Aaron Young
Perry Rubenstein Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition, STICKS & STONES, including more than twenty works on paper by eight artists. These artists' works traverse the mediums of painting, sculpture and video, all the while exploring an ongoing interest in drawing. Carter's enigmatic collages and drawings explore the numerous figurative and psychological permutations of the male figure. John White Cerasulo's delicate watercolors tread a thin balance between fact and fiction, past and present, the uncanny and the ordinary. Santiago Cucullu's watercolors draw from the margins of history: figures and events such as the anarchist movement from his hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Andrew Guenther synthesizes a diverse sampling of topics and references from both the cannon of art history as well as popular culture: death metal, throbbing zombie carcasses, animals, satyrs, and the notion of the grotesque. Adam Helms draws from a variety of source material ranging from photojournalism of war-town nations, political propaganda, and 19th century American frontier art. The starting point for the work of Jay Heikes exists in the realm of pop culture: cult cinema, rock music, the MTV Generation. The work of Matthew Day Jackson alludes to recognizable and iconoclastic subjects ranging from the Alamo to the Tower of Babel to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Aaron Young's work explores the notion of undermining authority and rigidity, the absurd and the historical.