“SLOUGH”
The title “Abiogenesis” might have been too portentous for summer, but art emerging from primordial ooze is the drift of this rambunctious show of works by thirty-four artists (from bigwigs like Andy Warhol to young guns like Pat McElnea), organized by the painter Steve DiBenedetto. Margins trump centers. One high point, while technically in the show, is outside it: Keith Edmier’s window installation of a living cycad plant sprouting from a slab of hardened lava. As you enter, the tarnished glamour of a small silver painting by Cheryl Donegan sets a louche tone that gives way to debauchery in Fabian Marcaccio’s aggressively repellent polychrome homage to vomit. Through July 24. (Nolan, 527 W. 29th St. 212-925-6190.)
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The title “Abiogenesis” might have been too portentous for summer, but art emerging from primordial ooze is the drift of this rambunctious show of works by thirty-four artists (from bigwigs like Andy Warhol to young guns like Pat McElnea), organized by the painter Steve DiBenedetto. Margins trump centers. One high point, while technically in the show, is outside it: Keith Edmier’s window installation of a living cycad plant sprouting from a slab of hardened lava. As you enter, the tarnished glamour of a small silver painting by Cheryl Donegan sets a louche tone that gives way to debauchery in Fabian Marcaccio’s aggressively repellent polychrome homage to vomit. Through July 24. (Nolan, 527 W. 29th St. 212-925-6190.)
- steve 7-20-2009 3:44 pm