SLEEPOVER PSYCHEDELIA
Finally, the Sleepover Psychedelia show that Adrian and I have been thinking about/working on for the past six months is almost here! We're in the final countdown, and feeling a bit crazed but excited.
For people who are in Hong Kong, come by the opening, Saturday April 1, 7pm at Kapok! There will be art, music, and drinks (possibly sponsored by Stella Artois, ooh la laaaa)
SLEEPOVER PSYCHEDELIA
An Exhibition Curated by Samantha Culp and Adrian Wong
Installation by Adrian Wong
Artists: Brian Chippendale, Thomas Galloway, Matt Lock, Devon Varmega, Brent Wadden
April 1- May 5, 2006
Opening Saturday April 1, 7pm
Kapok Gallery Space, 9 Dragon Road, Tin Hau, Hong Kong
www.ka-pok.com
Not so long ago, a new aesthetic began bubbling up through the bedrooms and basements of suburban America. In hand-made fanzines, indie album covers and personal blogs, the same symbols and set of concerns kept appearing-- unicorns and space-ships, pyramids and laser-beams, neon colors and graphing paper.
This April, HK-based artists and curators Samantha Culp and Adrian Wong bring you a show featuring five young American artists whose work taps into this same aesthetic of secret clubhouses and tie-dyed insanity.
Expect eye-popping works on paper, cardboard, stapled-booklets, pieces of wood, plastic masks, t-shirts, Cds, and everything in between— all to be framed by an installation by co-curator and artist Adrian Wong. The interactive “magic castle” will allow viewers to physically enter the “Sleepover Psychedelia” universe, and bring all these wildly unique works into a unified whole.
Truly underground American art is rarely (never?) exhibited in Hong Kong, so this will be a special chance for the HK public to experience some of the innovative style and feverish energy bursting out of this sub-cultural movement. Sleepover Psychedelia lies somewhere beyond punk rock and new age, geek and freak, and serves as a much-needed electro-shock to the mainstream Western art-world. On April 1 at the new Kapok Gallery Space in Tin Hau, come turn on, tune in, and psych yourself out.
