The exhibit will open Thursday, April 5th and run until the Sunday, April 8th and will take place in an industrial space, 278 Greenpoint Ave, into a kaleidoscopic seven-room home with each room holding one monochromatic color, ensuring the viewer’s experience to be quite a vibrant one.
"When I paint I am like an archeologist, unearthing that which is hidden and buried. My paintings are like gardens, plots of land. I watch them grow with my hands. Like clouds, they coagulate themselves into existence. And sometimes they rain and storm, and solidify like lava."
It's the last weekend to catch her current exhibition, A Hole Was Placed In The Sky And Sealed With Water at the East Village gallery space Fornight Institute.
In the wake of fashion season, and as we finish up this week's sportswear overload— this feature feels all too appropriate. As much as we all secretly lust after the logomania that has taken over style today, it can be tiring. So, take a load off, find the irony in fashion, and let's see what our favorite illustrator has been up to.
Highlighting awkwardness, insecurities and anxieties within humanity; Cook's cartoons of the 'trying to fit-ins' can give us all a little chuckle on the seriousness of societal fashion guidelines. It's alright if you didn't post for Air Max day or insta your Gucci slides this week. Because Josh Cook is here to laugh with you at the ones who did.
"In terms of incorporating fashion, the characters always wear knock-off fashion to reflect society's often elusive aspirations." -Josh Cook
