As he navigated pre-opening jitters, David Pagliarulo walked us through works included in the inaugural show at David Peter Francis.
how he was feeling on the opening night of his new solo gallery, he told me it felt like prom. “When all the people you know are in one place, it’s usually either a wedding or a funeral,” the 29-year-old said. “And prom is both of those things.”, Pagliarulo’s brand new outpost, is nestled on East Broadway, on the second floor of an old, abnormally ornate building with towering ceilings and oversized windows. Simply put, the perfect space to take in art .
Colleen Billing, Conduits, 2023, glass, silicone, electroplated organic material, centaurea, foraged plants, 41 x 9 x 8 inches. These sculptures are all filled with silicone. They act as a false representation of what it is in a sense, because it looks like muddy water. These are all medicinal, the plants and flowers that she forages. She electroplates some of them at the end, so she’s thinking of them as stomachs that are exploding with electricity. When we were installing, we were talking about them as a bunch of swans that are gossiping together on a pond.
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