Cool Hunting
Ara Dymond’s latest show, Base Material is currently on view at Pablo's Birthday gallery in TriBeCa. His most painstaking project to date, Fortress of Solitude features 5-gallon paint buckets recast as figures. The smooth scoop gesture was achieved in an auto body shop upstate—we’re not sure how the plastic escaped melting under the high temps but we’re glad they did. His champagne cork wall piece Bang—which everyone seemed to want to touch at the opening—looks like a mini mushroom cloud. While a diptych comprised of two Hummer H3 passenger and driver side windows set into custom-made wood frames hang alongside a striking color image of smashed and reassembled Dom Perignon bottles. The dialogue between all of the work is one of historical consistencies, excess and the state of American culture, as evidenced by the last work in the show titled simply Lindsay Lohan.
The show runs through 20 April 2006 at
Pablo’s Birthday
84 Franklin Street
New York, NY
+1 212 219 7750
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