RADICAL FUN will open this Saturday with somersaults through the wall in a feather boa made of lightning and lunch meat. It brings a steel sculpture, a minor explosion, and at least one confused chimp in a tutu.
We’ve let loose 13 delightfully unhinged visionaries. Expect colors that gossip behind your back, shapes that have formed a union, and sculptures that might have tunneled up from a dimension made entirely of jazz hands and jellybeans. Proceed with unreasonable joy.
Next up & featured above on our show poster, Brent Owens, and featured just a scroll below is David Reisman as well as Jane Hammond.
Brent Owens is a Marbletown, NY–based artist whose work explores the “Anthropocene Blues”—a poetic reckoning with humanity’s awkward entanglement with the natural world. After earning a BFA in Sculpture from Winthrop University, he spent nearly 20 years in NYC working with leading contemporary artists including Tom Sachs and Ursula Von Rydingsvard. His step-brother, Shannon Pearson, is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. Owens' art has been widely exhibited, and in 2023 he was awarded the National Academy of Design's Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.
David Reisman is a New York City–based artist and writer whose work explores the interplay between abstraction, representation, and the unconscious, particularly through dreams. His father served aboard the USS Wisconsin during the Korean War. Reisman’s paintings, drawings, and videos have been shown internationally, and his writing on art has appeared in publications such as Texte zur Kunst and Frieze. He holds a BFA, an MFA, and a doctorate in education from Columbia University.
Jane Hammond is a renowned artist and daughter of a Naval pilot who graduated from Admiral Farragut Naval Academy. Deeply engaged with themes of memory and loss, she created Fallen, a poignant memorial to U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, now housed in the Whitney Museum of American Art. Hammond’s work often draws on dreams and layered imagery, such as her butterfly-and-map series. She sees painting as both philosophical and physical—“a cross between high philosophy and cement work”—and uses time and repetition to access the unconscious. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, her art is in major collections including MoMA, the Met, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery.