Flower Derangement

Unfortunately, I didn't get to this opening but, I hope to get there before it comes down. End of the semester duties have me pretty occupied in addition to having partially moved. Moving will be completed after final critiques, next week.

Flower Derangement:

"Steering clear of her usual gooey weeping willows, Cristina Lei Rodriguez has tapped into the central nervous system of Sixties minimalist and junk art in her new show at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin.

The radical shift strips gears at a pace that seems turbo-charged.

For years, Rodriguez has been known for creating glam-pitched gardens of Day-Glo cobra lillies, venus fly traps, and monkey cups battered in milky coats of resin and spackled in rhinestones and jewels.

The work offered a lush, Little Shop of Horrors-esque vision of an unbridled consumer culture skidding headlong toward at a cataclysmic end. The collision between grotesque vegetation and glitter and glam was as hard to peel the peepers from as a freeway wreck."

(Via Miami New Times | Complete Issue.)