Denver Art Log

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Alterations Disconnect Memory from the Dream @ Gildar Gallery (Amber Cobb)

Unspeakable horrors have been perpetrated upon these mattresses. Presumably they’ve been marinated at high heat in some froth of cigarette mud, latex vomit, and urine bile, before being left out in the rain and sun to, like, ferment.

Old men and cats.

Phillip Guston?

They don’t smell?

Gross as it is, the show is also delicate, maybe graceful. The mattresses were simply stretched like canvases, dipped in shiny pink latex, and brought into the gallery... left to tell their own stories. And the hair drawings do so much with so little! Precise and visceral, because it’s hair. Laid out in elegant arcs and coated in rubbery flesh.