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Wonder Twin Powers, Activate! by Ami Kealoha
Wonder Twins' call to action, "Wonder Twin Powers, Activate" is a group show opening tomorrow, 14 July 2006, at Chicago's Gescheidle gallery. Featuring works that are "aesthetically charged, and reference symmetry and metamorphosis," images range from Erik A. Lang's classically-composed homoerotic photographs to Colleen Asper's neo-icon paintings to the collaged psychedelia of Rob Yamabushi (pictured).
Wonder Twin Powers, Activate!
Opening 14 July 2006, 6-9pm
Through 26 August 2006
Gescheidle Contemporary Art
118 North Peoria, 4th floor
Chicago, IL 60607 map
tel. +01 312 226 3500
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