Fifteen, Sixteen Foxes

Paintings by Dan Fig

Reception December 1st – 6:00pm to 8:00pm

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The Fordham University Galleries
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113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
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Dan Fig, not so much the pessimist as the anxious doubter, stares the Gorgon in the face: if our consciousness is being molded by GUIs (graphical user interfaces), he proposes, wide-eyed, to let into the same space a whole host of different realities.  The result is an orbit without anchor point, a web of relativity, a sui generis game of self-cancelling logic.  Play is a method here as well: a way of channeling the energy (terror) of life in times of clip-art overload, but without faith that any revelation will ensue.  From a surfeit of pictures, a tight grid emerges.  

The paintings endure this tightening stoically.  It’s worth noting that for the Stoics, the goal of indifference was freedom.

-Text by Gaby Wolodarski

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