Cigarettes, Ceramics, and Curatorial Chaos: We Went To SPRING/BREAK’s “Secret Show”
Michael Anthony Farley And Whitney Kimball, BMORE Art, May 22, 2023
What’s on view: A “homecoming” show of over 300 works by artists in the SPRING/BREAK orbit. Salon-style, primarily painting and ceramics with loose themes, including: cigarettes, beer, Bushwick nostalgia, neon patterns, floral ceramics, horse paintings, attempts to expose government and corporate corruption. Works are loosely grouped in four rooms and a hallway of a former orphan asylum turned parochial school turned residential building in New York’s NoLIta where SPRING/BREAK first exhibited.
Whitney: SO MANY CIGS. Wall-to-wall cigs. From candy-sized to pool noodle-scale, this show contained so many depictions of cigarettes that every tubular object started to resemble a cigarette. You are a cigarette. I am a cigarette. This is the show of one thousand cigarettes.