Repast
Repast
New works by DengCoy Miel and Jose Tence Ruiz
In Repast, DengCoy Miel and Jose Tence Ruiz examine the present by skewering the past. Historical events cast a long shadow on grotesque silhouettes rendered in a raw, unsettling glory.
In Lord of the Onion Rings, Ruiz harkens back to Francis Bacon’s ghostly human forms, with a man whose face is obscured by violent brushstrokes and geometric shapes that aren’t where they’re supposed to be.
In Dengcoy Miel’s Peelings, WoHohoo, Peelings, a young boy cries as he chops onions. Taken at face value, the scene
is a mundane tableau–but given the state of the world as it is, with inflation at an all-time high and the looming threat
of recessions and climate disaster, it serves as a poignant metaphor for the current situation.
Taken as a whole, the works crackle with a frenetic energy and thick layers of meaning ripe for dissection and vivisection.
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Music: Belted Kingfisher by Chad Crouch
New works by DengCoy Miel and Jose Tence Ruiz
In Repast, DengCoy Miel and Jose Tence Ruiz examine the present by skewering the past. Historical events cast a long shadow on grotesque silhouettes rendered in a raw, unsettling glory.
In Lord of the Onion Rings, Ruiz harkens back to Francis Bacon’s ghostly human forms, with a man whose face is obscured by violent brushstrokes and geometric shapes that aren’t where they’re supposed to be.
In Dengcoy Miel’s Peelings, WoHohoo, Peelings, a young boy cries as he chops onions. Taken at face value, the scene
is a mundane tableau–but given the state of the world as it is, with inflation at an all-time high and the looming threat
of recessions and climate disaster, it serves as a poignant metaphor for the current situation.
Taken as a whole, the works crackle with a frenetic energy and thick layers of meaning ripe for dissection and vivisection.
.
.
.
Music: Belted Kingfisher by Chad Crouch