Woodrow White’s “Babel Video” at Hashimoto Contemporary.
Currently on view at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco, California is artist Woodrow White’s fascinating solo exhibition, “Babel Video.”
From the gallery’s press release: “Woodrow White’s paintings explore the failure of illusion by examining the nexus of narrative, history, and artifice. White’s work speaks to the anxiety surrounding the validity of information, where trust in images has been irreparable damaged by mass consumption. The artist’s iconoclastic paintings are in response to our current,
seemingly-apocalyptic, news headlines. Each tableau draws upon politically divisive topics like
climate change, social inequalities, economics, and war. For the exhibition, the artist will physically alter the gallery space into a video-rental store filled with
a collection of imaginary films. Viewers are invited to browse through the shelves to discover titles
like Toxic Masculinity II, Feminazis, and Fluid of the Druids. In addition to the hand-painted DVDs,
the show will also feature large-scale paintings of movie posters advertising invented blockbusters.”“Babel Video” will be on view until January 27th, 2018 and should be sought out at all costs.
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