Live, Laugh, Love

William Downs, Sasha Fishman, Fox Hysen, Andy Ralph, Hannah Rowan, Tsai-Ling Tseng

At Below Grand, New York, US

February 26 — March 26, 2022

          “We Must practice ‘riding on the dynamic of disaster’.”- Franco Bifo Berardi, The Third Unconscious
“Surf the Doom” – A t-shirt seen in Las Vegas

           “At the end of the pandemic, at the end of the long period of isolation, people may simply continue to sink into the eternal nothingness of virtual connection, of distancing and techno-totalitarian integration. This is probable. But we should not be confined to the probable. We should discover the possibility that is hidden in the present.
After months of constant online connectivity, people might come out of their houses and apartments looking for conjunctions. A movement of solidarity and tenderness can arise, leading people towards an emancipation from connective dictatorship. We have to imagine and to create this movement of caressing, a reinvention of eros in the age of mandatory distancing.
          Death is back at the centre of the landscape: that long-denied mortality, which makes humans alive.” – Franco Bifo Berardi, The Third Unconscious

— Below Grand

 

Installation view of Live, Laugh, Love featuring the work of Sasha Fishman, Fox Hysen, and Hannah Rowan
Installation view of Live, Laugh, Love featuring the work of Sasha Fishman, Fox Hysen, and Hannah Rowan
Exhibition view
Fox Hysen. I Am a Rock. Oil on canvas. 36 x 48 inches. 2021
Installation view of Live, Laugh, Love featuring the work of Sasha Fishman, Fox Hysen, and Hannah Rowan
Hannah Rowan. Becoming Crystal I & II. Glass, water, chains, hooks, bolts. 2021
Sasha Fishman. Viscous Hell. Spirulina, paper pulp (recycled paper, corn starch, flour, PVA, joint compound), shrinky dinks of Priscilla, copper, ceramic, glass, plaster, insulation, resin. 28 x 22 x 38 inches. 2022
Sasha Fishman. Viscous Hell. Spirulina, paper pulp (recycled paper, corn starch, flour, PVA, joint compound), shrinky dinks of Priscilla, copper, ceramic, glass, plaster, insulation, resin. 28 x 22 x 38 inches. 2022
Sasha Fishman. Viscous Hell. Spirulina, paper pulp (recycled paper, corn starch, flour, PVA, joint compound), shrinky dinks of Priscilla, copper, ceramic, glass, plaster, insulation, resin. 28 x 22 x 38 inches. 2022
Installation view of Live, Laugh, Love featuring the work of William Downs,, Hannah Rowan, and Tsai-Ling Tseng
Tsai-Ling Tseng. Family Comes First. Oil on canvas. 50 x 55 inches. 2019.
William Downs. Rue. India ink on paper (left out in nature for two days). 30 x 22 inches. 2021.
Fox Hysen. Forward Fold Green/Blue.. Oil on canvas. 36 x 48 inches. 2021
Hannah Rowan. Aloe & Tentacle. Glazed black stoneware and oxides. 2022
Andy Ralph. Amazon Bathroom Break. Coca-Cola Cans, Tin Solder, and Resin 30” x 18” x 12.” 2022
nstallation view of Live, Laugh, Love featuring the work of Fox Hysen, and Andy Ralph