Adult Contemporary

Curated by Problem Child Advisory

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 13, 2024, 6 - 9 pm

Showing: April 13th - May 18th, 2024

Featured Artists: Gabriel Rozzell, Hank Reavis, Raffi and Al’s, Libbi Ponce, Malek Lazri, Kristen Landsman, Kim Kyne Cohen, Aaron Elvis Jupin, Kyle Gallagher, Liza Jo Eilers, Caroline Douville, Wallace Dibble, Anaïs De Los Santos, and Zoe Alameda.

Gabriel Rozzell, Love at First Sight, 2023, 6 x 6 in. Acrylic on panel | $750

In Adult Contemporary, Problem Child Advisory presents an infantry of cyborgs, alchemizing the excess of our hyper-saturated visual culture and dissolving the boundaries between our physical and digital realms to pursue sincere pleasure and connection. Ranging from a hydrochromic ink painting that reveals a vintage magazine nudie when wet to a supersized gingerbread cookie chimera that conjoins Adam, Eve, temptation, and sin, the works embrace the multiplicity of our virtual landscape and its disruptions – which collapse the distinction between physical and virtual – to challenge normative systems that seek to regulate and alienate us from every form of pleasure. While the excessiveness of our digital landscape can reflect its exploitation by hegemonic powers, it also paradoxically creates a space for a new shared visual culture, which ferments new potentialities that inextricably link us with one another, both on and offline. The excess acts as an enzyme for new forms of connection, subverting dominant ideologies and their regulatory impulses that attempt to commodify and police culture to reinforce their normative ideals, including our desires. The works collectively embody a playful, lighthearted spirit that speaks to our insatiable appetite for unrestricted laughter and ecstasy. The marriage of the virtual and the physical allows us to conjure new modalities that extend beyond the screen, reconfiguring how we connect in our material world, just as much as in our virtual world and everywhere in between. Adult Contemporary unapologetically invokes a blend of traditional and experimental processes and mediums as sites of exchange, often referencing viral imagery and popular culture as a way of cheekily embracing the amorphous, infinite webs of pleasure and Connection.

-Tamara Martínez Bravo

Gabriel Rozzell, Matrimony, 2024, 24 x 48 in. Acrylic on canvas | $3000

Hank Reavis, Abandoned Truck (Neah Bay), 2024, 10 x 26 in. Acrylic on canvas | $4,000

Libbi Ponce, a theory on love, 2024, 4 x 2 x3 in. Steel, Handblown glass, Grout, Scrap foam, two-part expanding polyurthane Hardware | $3,000

Malek Larzi, Layup, 2024, 68 x 40 x 24 in. Foam, Silicone, Tshirt, Popcorn | $4000

Kristen Landsman, pink haired vape queen, 2024, 24 x 36.5 in. Acrylic on canvas | $3,000

Kristen Landsman, hulk hogan, 2024, 16 x 19.75 in. Acrylic and gloss medium on canvas | $1,500

Aaron Elvis Jupin, “Haven’t seen you around in a while”, 2020, 39 x 33 in. Acrylic on canvas | $8500

Kyle Gallagher, Don’t follow me I’m lost, 2024, 30 x40 in. Acrylic on canvas | PLACED

Liza Jo Eilers, If you weren’t coming back here, this won’t exist, 2024, 39 x 54 in. Acrylic, pigment transfer, glitter and hydrochromic ink on linen | $6,900

Caroline Douville, Negative Puff, 2024, 13 x 13 in. Acrylic on canvas | $1200

Caroline Douville, Fancy Zombie, 2024, 10 x 70 in. acrylic on canvas | $2000

Wallace Dibble, Actress, 2023, 40 x 40 in. Oil on mesh | $3,500

Anais De Los Santos, Girl, 2023, 7 x 4 x 19 in. ceramic | $1000

Anais De Los Santos, Bike?, 2023, 18 x 10 x 16 in. ceramic | $1,500

Raffi Andals & Alberto Cuadros, Meags But Bro, 2024, bottles, memorabilia, oil pastel, vinyl stickers, Wine glasses, tumbler, sharpie stretcher bars on salvaged shipping crate | $8,000

Kim Kyne Cohen, Original Fun, 2023, 4ft, slip & glaze on ceramic | $7,500

Zoe Alameda, Comfortable Mud, 2024, 50 x 24 in. Acrylic, xerox prints, found trinkets on canvas | $2,000

Zoe Alameda, My Love, 2024, Xerox prints, tar gel, resin, 15.25 x 8 in. metal hardware, plastisol on wood panel | PLACED

Lucien Smith , untitled (Jane & Goji @ 83 Canal), 2024, 4 x 5 in. Airbrushed acrylic on Canvas | $10,500