Jim Drain: I Would Gnaw On My Hand at Green Naftali Gallery
This is the second-ever NYC solo show for this celebrated artist whose best known works involve the decidedly low-tech mediums of knitting(!?) and cut-n-paste collage. Low-tech or not, Drain certainly coaxes the maximum impact from whatever he does, really turning out some mind-meltingly psychedelic assemblages in his latest show, which the gallery website says:
Drain considers Iggy Pop; his animalistic energy and pop cliches serving as the formal and conceptual basis for four large-scale sculptures, collages, photographs of Iggy?s old clothes and specific formal interventions to the gallery space?a net that cages half of the gallery, toilet seat furniture and a wallpaper installation.
EMERGE has no clue what that really means. But we do know that we really like the way this stuff looks. Oh, and we're also pretty fired up for the dance performance scheduled for tomorrow evening at 7pm when Drain and Brooke O'Harra of the La MaMa Experimental Theater present "Gonna Dress You Up," a dance performance based on the punk kabuki performance Drums of the Waves of Horikawa by the Theatre of the Two-Headed Calf.
Posted by James Friedman
