Please Turn To The Left

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This Wednesday Jose Picayo is having a gallery opening at the Robin Rice Gallery at 325 West 11th St from 5:30pm until 8:30pm. I recommend you to all stop through and check out his work. Mug Shots is a set of 8″x10″ Polaroids (an AmericanMadness format favorite) he shot each of his subjects and that was it. No digital manipulation, no make-up artists, no after-effects Picayo puts it best saying “A Polaroid is a one of a kind image, it is a tangible ‘real’ object you can hold in your hands” (not too surprising that his work caught our eye).

By way of an explanation for this undertaking Picayo comments: “In an age of artificial beauty where absolute perfection has become society’s standard, we are often disheartened by the reality of our own flawed reflections in the mirror.” Anyway, the AM crew will be at the opening (or at least some of us will be). If you can’t make it, don’t fret, it will be showing through June 22.

AmericanMadness will have a review on the exhibition in the days following the opening and maybe even an interview with Jose Picayo to follow. We’ll keep you posted on that (so, if you have any questions for him, let us know).

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